Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-33899215-20180115031450/@comment-53539-20180310135031

For a lot of the problem, it was a fault of V3. It added far too many new vocaloids and everyone was trying to get sales from a limited pool of potential customers, the over saturation of new vocals was bad especially in the first 6 months. This caused some extreme sales reflection between the most popular and least. Other problems began to arise over time as a lot of these vocals had issues standing out from each other in V3. This caused a over haul to the way vocaloids were recorded in V4, and vocal traits are now the focus instead of "easy to tune for music". Off the top of my head the best example of problems related to this were the twins Anon and Kanon, since there were plenty of vocaloids who could do the same things they did and shared their similar tone and vocal range. And having two very similar voicebanks didn't help either. However, this doesn't mean they didn't sell well, just they haven't really seen much usage.

vocaloids who share the same tone and vocal range now don't react the same as you go up and down the octaves. This makes all new vocaloids in V4 more unique. The side effect is a lot of new vocals now sound "a cross between X and Y", which is fine. We have XSY now so a lot of cross-vocals end up like this anyway.

To be honest, a lot of the problems are used as propaganda against certain vocals, which is stupid as honestly... Even in real life you see much the same problems and Vocaloid reflect this. Opera singers, for example, have to be trained to sing a certain way otherwise they can't sing in the right style. Professional singers in general suffer from the industry training their vocalists to fit a certain style only. And with the clean up process and auto-tuning, things are nowadays often lost in process. Ergo, a lot of the nit-picks over vocaloid vocals are just that... People finding faults that often doesn't really exist or if they do aren't much of a reason to hold a vocaloid against. Think of how many Elvis Impersonators there are.