Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25957383-20160511140149/@comment-29714788-20160512174654

@Angel Emfrbl The avatar will be kept but the voice provider changed? That's kind of interesting, because even though it's represented by the same character it's a different voice but it's still the same Vocaloid. But I guess that would only work for character based vocals like AHS's, probably not for say, Gackpo or Sachiko.

I honestly don't mind if two vocals sound similar, as long as they have some unique vocal traits to distinguish them from others. But Chika and Merli sound way too generic, Unity-chan sounds like Rana, and AnoKano had some potential but were low quality and didn't have lower pitches. There are quite a few female Japanese vocals that sound alike in that way, but people shouldn't complain about vocals from other languages having those voice types. A lot of people whined about Ruby or Cyber Diva being high-pitched and nasal when they're the first Engloids to have both of those traits (Prima is high-pitched but mature sounding, and Sonika isn't nasal). They also said that Stardust sounds too generic just like the other Chinese vocals and that Yanhe is the exception when Yanhe only sounds like that because she was voice acted like Len...Anyway it was solely an issue with Japanese V3s and not any other language, and it's pretty irrelevant in V4 so I don't know why people bring it up today.