Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-53539-20130405164209/@comment-26213067-20150513145012

The original VOCALOID series is honestly my favourite. They brought a phenomenal music revolution that only became appreciated once the little teal thing came along. The best part was that they were all so unique. They all filled a niche. KAITO and MEIKO were, at one point, very mature vocals. They had a really wide range that people could work with and unfortunately, their V3 updates weren't so kind to them in this aspect. MEIKO and KAITO V3 lost vocal range, gained some clarity in certain spots, but the engine just made them extremely nasally which really put me off. ・ヘ・

LEON and LOLA, the father and mother of all VOCALOIDs... where do I begin with these two...? Ah yes, they were indeed rushed, suffer from horrible engine noise, and require a lot of work... but to be fair, they were the very first two voices. They brought a mature, unique voice I'd never heard in an English voicebank to the table... It's hard to describe, but they are far different from the current standing of generic voices (Ruby, Cryptonloid's with their English).

And lastly, the lovely MIRIAM... She is honestly my favourite from the V1 series. She has this unusual voice that I wish we had a little more of nowadays. Sure, Zero-G has confirmed a female vocal (presumeably British-English), but I don't think it's possible for them to ever do better than their first 3.