Talk:KAITO (VOCALOID1)/@comment-29714788-20160418055158/@comment-53539-20181222223202

I disagree, the original V1 had too much engine noise and was done with the (then) problematic Japanese script which had errors. It wasn't just the English one that had issues here you see and some didn't get fixed until Miku. Then later with VY1 and VY2. If Kaito was re-recorded today, he would be recorded using the new V4 recording style which captures more vocalist traits.

V1 was a lot less realistic due to its engine, the engine being rather crude sounding since V1 was sloppy at times. A lot of people will quote things like V1 having a bigger vocal range but this wasn't true as the V1s had smaller vocal ranges then the V2s overall, just a lot of "give" with the engine which allowed a wider performance. When everything is that bad, you barely notice when the engine gave HQ results. Overall its why Wat considered it a prototype to V2 and it certainly was a work in progress. Kaito himself would be forgotten along with the entire V1 cast until 2008, V1 just didn't leave enough of a mark.

There is no triphones, no extra vocals, no English either, the V1 vocal is rather shallow overall with not much depth to it. The later V3 vocal had benefits of years more development that went into their vocals improving them greatly. Remember that within V2s era alone, the difference between 2007-2009 were not overall as good as the post 2009 vocals in general. This is without taking recording technology, experience, etc into account.

I do, however, feel it is easier to like the V1 vocal for the same reason you can enjoy the vocals that are behind the Chipspeech software. There is some joy in the more robotic sounding results.