Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20130420121519/@comment-53539-20180427111438

I have this funny idea the original voice was an old V2 that never got released so they just used it as a prize. The voicebank has the quality of a V2 in V3. Regardless, without seeing if she had Triphones.

Its not a problem if she was no longer available for use, the English V1 trio, the V2 English vocaloids + Piko, all are unsupported vocals. Every engine looks like its going to have its vocals that won't be passed onto the next.

To be honest, I've said it before, I don't get the hype over this voice as it fell into the category "common voice type" and there was never anything really special about the voice to earn the following it did. A lot of it, and I stand by it, was purely because she was exclusive. Those who've come along since the actualy release, I feel are more honest fan followers of her.

My other issue with Galaco's prize version was it showed how selfish and greedy some western fans could be. Along with Rana ("I own one copy of her magazine, I own her!" or "I own every copy but don't live within Japan, I own her!"), its not our best reaction to a new vocaloid with a conditional release behind them.