Board Thread:Japanese VOCALOID discussion/@comment-35698301-20180527132743/@comment-53539-20180528110915

2 pages; Mirai Komachi and Mirai Komachi (VOCALOID4) which is about her product.

We are usually pretty good and within 2 days of a release information is up.

I don't consider the fact she has a common voice type so bad, since the specs behind her are really good. Take any of either Meiko or Lily's vocals and she already has outclassed both on each vocaloid's voicebanks on their own. So the issue isn't on how good she is at all. Rather far from it. ITs literally just that we've heard her voicetype so often that its going to have trouble standing out. As I noted on her product page, the new recording technique means that vocaloid of the same type don't behave the same anymore, but, she still have trouble even then standing out. The fact even in Japan this is being pointed out is the most major thing to me.

Fans can whine all they want about how "unique" vocaloids are, but this is 2018 wherein just about every female vocal type has been covered and the like-vocal is now considered a problem by the devs serious enough to address specifically. Vocaloids are unique in that every voicebank has unique sets of samples, however, turns out some voicebanks are actually re-using samples from other voicebanks of the past, as mentioned by LUMi's release which re-uses no samples at all. A lot of what we have come to believe about Vocaloids has begun to crumble over the years as it is. Realistically, there is no longer grounds to complain about the people comparing voices, its a very real thing and Mirai Komachi is yet another vocaloid with this to deal with.