Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076833-20141028204009/@comment-53539-20141103085620

''Also, a separate message, I like how "wiki is jumping the gun" is used at VO forums... Honestly do they KNOW how we work by now? "Wikia" isn't a single entity, its many. One editor puts "Luka v4" down doesn't mean the whole wikia agreed with it or wanted it. They treat our site like there is one person editing it sometimes and I swear they still act like I'm a major editor when I barely edit these days. '' ¬_¬

Still, more on topic of predictions, I think judging by the way things are going, V4 might be with by or around its next birthday (2/26/2015). There doesn't seem to be a big event planned or anything this time. We've not had half a year dedicated to hype. If Luka is being released in Q1 and Ruby is ready and waiting, then I wouldn't be surprised.

I don't think we need a big celebration every time Vocaloid renews itself. V2 never had and its only V1 and V3 that had a big fuss at all. Some might not like the sudden release of V4 if this is the case, but this happens all the time with software. Plus it may have been a simple case of there was such a short notice on V4, nobody had time to make a massive deal of it. Or there was a need this time as there wasn't a big need to promote it.

V3's success hinge a lot on tropuble to make sure Vocaloids fan base got on board as there was no certainty that the producers who worked with V2 would buy it. Plus, I doubt there has been any change to the actual engine itself and the big changes are more centred around the interrface and functions themselves, rather then VB. This would explain how Luka can sound like a V3 even if she was used in V4.

This would satisfy the fans at VO, who don't seem to think much changed between V2->V3, but by law Yamaha has to make significant changes to a software before being able to call it a new version. I don't think there will be any languages and I don't think overall V4 will be too different to V3 in its overall working. This is likely also why there is less of a risk of a V3 not making the deadline, if there is nothing to throw the vocal back into production to tune it for the V4 engine like Meiko, Miku and Kaito V2's had, there everyone can relas a bit.

Overall, I think people are expecting a lot more focus on the vocals themselves, and that it would be nice for a simple adjustment to everything else for once anyway. There ARE plenty of bugs in V2, and not all of them were gone whenever I tried V3 demos. Vocaloid can improve in many directions, even becoming more studio-like... Who knows... :-/