Talk:VY1 (VOCALOID5)/@comment-26500364-20180717021020/@comment-53539-20180717091559

I think its to stress the package is the same as the original set up. But VY3 and VY4 have a "2" on the end of their voicebanks so I don't see much of the point. Then again, there is to consider that English Vocaloids have 5x the size of the voicebank of Japanese vocaloids and that they have had to do far more to them.

Most of the changes involve adjusting the samples to make them cleaner, pretty much it, fix a few bugs here and there. Megpoid has had this happen twice in her lifetime to the original V2 Megpoid voicebank. So companies can often just sit there and clean up samples for several versions, re-releasing them each time as a new version. You don't even have to re-record the vocal at all unless your adding new vocals.

Thus you can have this endless cycle going on of "new engine - release old stuff with tweaks", which has been happening in Vocaloid3 and Vocaloid4, now adding to this Vocaloid5. Unless, however, there is significant differences there is no need to constantly buy the newest version, all your doing is renewing the license of that vocal each time for another 4 years so you can use it for another 4 years longer. Though this time, the renewal isn't worth it. I do note that we do tend to note the vocal is basically the same with improvement tweak in the "issues" section of the template when we're signalling the update isn't that important to rush to get it ASAP for a reason.