Luo Tianyi V4 Japanese


 * This is an article about the Luo Tianyi Japanese software for the VOCALOID4 engine.

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History
Luo Tianyi Japanese was originally intended for the VOCALOID3 engine and was to be developed by Bplats, Inc. in collaboration with Shanghai HENIAN Information Technology Co. Ltd..

2012
On April 2, 2012, Shan Xin confirmed that she had just finished her second day of recording the voicebank and mentioned that she did an interview with Japanese reporters. According to her report, she recorded in the "Japanese way" which led to a fan asking if it would be a Japanese or Chinese voicebank. Shan Xin responded by stating to wait for the announcement.

On July 11, VOCALOID China Project released a special video that showed all of Luo Tianyi's Chinese demos. Later, it was revealed that she would also have a Japanese voicebank expected to release in October. This had since been pushed back.

On July 16, Shan Xin mentioned that the Japanese voicebank would be released that Autumn.

2013
Tianyi's Japanese voicebank was not yet finished at the time of YANHE's development, however, Shanghai HENIAN hoped to have her released soon. Later in November 2013, it was confirmed that the vocal was cancelled.

In addition to this, jarryestel, a former member of SHN, stated that one of the reasons for the cancellation of Tianyi's Japanese voicebank was due to an issue between Japan and China during 2012, particularly over the ownership of Diaoyu Island/Senkaku Islands. This lead to Shanghai HENIAN cancelling the Japanese voicebank since the relationship of the countries were conflicting and could negatively affect the sales of the voicebank. To add on, many Japanese companies were pulling their employees back to Japan for their safety, and therefore projects were never finished, possibly including Tianyi Japanese. Due to this occurring too quickly, the reason for the cancellation was never revealed properly.

2017
On June 17, 2017, Tianyi's V4 voicebanks were used at the Vsinger Live concert and introduced the existence of a Japanese voicebank for her. The Japanese voicebank was used to perform a cover of "Gokuraku Joudo". In addition, she performed with Aya Uchida and they sang "Floating Heart" and "Sweet Dreamer", both songs originally featuring Aya. On June 19, SHN confirmed that the Japanese voicebank was back in production for VOCALOID4 and the boxarts for both languages were revealed. Each boxart featured Tianyi in different designs drawn by TID.

On October 1, Luo Tianyi V4 was made available for pre-order, but there was no confirmation as to when the Japanese voicebank would be released. Renxingtu later tweeted that Tianyi Japanese was taking more time to develop.

On November 13, Renxingtu reported that a Japanese demo was stable.

2018
On April 15, 2018, an official website, twitter account, YouTube account, and Facebook account were launched for Tianyi Japanese. 2 voicebanks for her Japanese package were confirmed: Normal and Sweet. It was also announced that the Japanese package would be available for preorder on April 23. On her official website, it was confirmed that Tianyi Japanese was scheduled to release on May 21, 2018.

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 * OS::
 * Windows: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows 10 (please apply the latest Windows update)
 * Mac: OS X 10.10 (excluding those who use Cubase 7, Cubase Artist 7), OS X 10.9, OS X 10.8 (except those using Cubase 8) (All 32/64bit compatible)
 * CPU: Intel Dual Core CPU
 * RAM: 8GB (at least 4GB)
 * Hard Disk Capacity: 3GB or more
 * Internet connection.