User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Most recent popular Myth - Kaito V3's range/@comment-183.90.41.21-20130808161302/@comment-53539-20130809133225

The 2 appends are not both soft appends,. A "Soft" append has soft pronunciations, the other append Kaito has is "whisper" which is a change of tone not pronunciations. Though 'soft' pronunciations are a backlash of such a append either way.

My theory as to why Kaito has two soft is based on a either sighting of a Power Append in progress. I think it was never used because Gackpoid was released with a Power and Whisper vocal, so CFM swapped "power" for another vocal for Kaito to avoid appearing to 'copy' or leave Kaito fighting against Gackpoid.

Vocals don't tend to decline so much in older age, they may become raspier, thats true and singers tend to loose their ablity to hold notes. But control itself tends to come with age and older singers tend to be able to gain pace over younger singers often just by this. Practice, training... Experience... Either way I doubt I'd blame this on Kaito's provider himself, as aside from change of tone and maybe breath capabilities, he wouldn't have had to face too much problems. Puberty is pretty much the only time a male's voice really will change dramatically...

I would argue myself due to Miku's money bringing in, CFM is now making higher quality vocals then in V2, not to mention they have always made in-house vocals anyway. I wouldn't say their without flaws because I don't expect that from Vocaloids anyway, but chances are that things have gone the way of all the other higher quality vocaloids. It seems the better the vocal the more "stuck" they are in capabilities, since lesser quality vocals have no problems no having to worry about slipping up because they are bad to begin with.

On the one hand, some long-term fans also were not comfortable with realistic sounding vocaloids and prefer it when they are slightly robotic. Though honestly I doubt this had to play a factor in anything.