Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140215200755/@comment-32500188-20140220173848

Although really the only downfall of the Mac version is that it requires the extra purchase of Cubase if you don't have it on your computer.

How many people have actually purchased VOCALOID NEO in the west? Quite possibly an extreme few that took the liberties to get it imported, or really close to none... mainly due to two things:

1.) Getting everything required to make it work is absolute murder on a customer's wallet.

2.) They know there are more people on the homefront that would actually invest in the purchase as opposed to outside of Japan... because, again, like I said in the previous thread, you have more indie/professional producers that use both software titles in Japan, whereas every other place is still in the works of trying to get VOCALOID into a more acceptable medium for music while fighting the stigmas people still hold against the overal concept behind it.

Until Yamaha gets a working standalone version that everyone would be able to use cost-effectively, then I kind of see why they held off on notifying the English companies about it... it's going to be of no use to potential customers that want a Mac version but avoid getting it if they have to spend hundreds more than what they would getting the Windows versions of V3.

Simply put... I honestly think we're making too big of a deal about the whole thing here. If VOCALOID NEO was standalone from the very beginning, I'd be very inclined to agree that something is very off with Yamaha's communication. Unfortunately, that's not the case, and we probably won't be seeing a standalone Mac version of the editor until they're ready to release the next gen of VOCALOID.