Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-35301431-20130720165941/@comment-29714788-20160325094730

I'm not a fan of Crypton's Vocaloids in general tbh, but here's my ordering of them, from most to least favourite.

1. KAITO - I don't really know that much good songs he's been used in, but his voice has a smooth yet crisp tone. I prefer Gackpo for mature male vocals, but KAITO is good in genres Gackpo can't handle.

2. Rin - I can't stand listening to her high range; Usually I can't stand most high ranges unless it's falsetto, but Rin's is particularly grinding to my ears. However, her mid-range sounds nice, and I think people should use it more. There are some Rin original songs I like, but the ones I actually like her voice in are tuned covers.

3. Miku - There are a shit-ton of Miku songs I like, and most of my favourite producers usually use Miku, but I don't really like her voice itself. I do like some of her appends, especially Sweet, Dark, and Solid, but that's only because they sound the most different from her original voice.

4. Luka - Honestly I used to like Luka, but I don't like her that much anymore. Her voice is too high pitched, and her low range is too weak. Even her V4x Power voicebank (at least I think that's what it is) is too weak, it sounds more like a head voice than realistic belting. She doesn't really fit in with any songs for me, her voice is too light for rock/metal, not sweet/energetic enough for pop, not vibrant enough for trance/electronica, and not sexy/husky enough for how she was originally supposed to sound like.

5. MEIKO - Well, I kind of like MEIKO because of her realistic and mature timbre, but her voice, like Luka's, doesn't really fit in with that much songs. She's not flexible enough to adapt to various genres but at the same time when you try to fit her to one there's something in her voice that sticks out. I like Kanon better because she has the same vocal type as MEIKO but is more versatile.

6. Len - I hate Len and will never understand why anyone likes him. I understand that Len is meant to represent a prepubescent young male vocal, but he really doesn't sound like a male teenager at all. I'm currently in the nineth grade, which means that I should be approximately the same age as Len, and while there are still some squeakers in my grade, most of my male classmates have fairly deep voices (at least deeper than Len's). Just listen to Oliver's voice, he sounds like a young boy when Len just sounds like a slightly tomboyish woman, like the utaite Nano. Even flower sounds more masculine than Len, and she's supposed to be androgynous and not masculine. The issue with Len's voice isn't really that he's voiced by a woman, but more with Asami Shimoda's ability (or lack of it) to be able to sound masculine. Listen to her voice on that Vocaloid vs. Voice provider video where she sings in the voice she voice acted Len in, she has more of a chest voice/forced formant voice than her Rin voice but still doesn't sound boyish. Overall Len just doesn't sound good to me at all, I like Fukase better because he doesn't sound like he's choking on dicks.