User:Rilena

"''If you don't know about Josh Bess, you might have a bit of trouble talking to me. Also, the anime box art trend needs to end." -me at some point in time.''

Why I'm here: (Info)
I'll keep this short because it's a boring story and the dates are estimates because all I know is that I've been a fan for around 5 years or more. I found out about VOCALOID from some old friend back in 2012, and she introduced me to Servant of Evil. I didn't really care for it that much, but I thought the music was nice. Then 2 years later I started becoming a terrible person, because I fell into that "have you heard of Kagamine Len?" phase. Oh boy. Whenever I talked about VOCALOID, or listened to songs, it HAD to be Len. I lived and breathed this poor thing. I even dressed up as Rin for one Halloween. I became what someone thinks about if you were to say "I'm a VOCALOID fan!"

This eventually led to my purchase of the Kagamine V4xbundle pack in 2015. Buying the bundle changed my life for the better.

I eventually became interested in the VOCALOID software itself, and taught myself how to use the program (and tune, because no Yamaha trials existed yet.) I also began to like other VOCALOID voice banks (Cyber Songman, Prima, Tonio, etc.) At this time, I started to feel a bit distant from my other VOCALOID obsessed friends, since I would usually bring up something cool that Yamaha did in an update etc. when they would just talk about the Crypton VOCALOIDs. I still have respect for these people though, because you can't deny the fact that Hatsune Miku's release is what caused the program to rise in fame.

If I seem to "hate and love" on some certain voices, I'm sorry. I'm an extremely critical person and at the end of the day, I still think Andrea Bocelli is better than Tonio.

My Favorite/Least Favorite Voice Banks:
This is going to be hard for me since every single voice has some flaws (and I don't want to rant about those)

BTW a lot of VOCALOIDs just end up somewhere in the deep blue sea of "they have issues but can sound good if x y and z is applied."

-not including the v5 standard vocalists because they're equal in quality by some extent-

Favorites: (I like the tone of voice that Rin and Len have, and even though they're made to sound like anime characters, I still like Len. He's kind of stuck around in my list for a while, and I've kind of grown to like Rin too. This does not mean that I think they are perfect. They have flaws (looking at you EVEC and V4 English).)
 * 1) Tonio
 * 2) Prima
 * 3) Cyber Songman (I like him better than Chris)
 * 4) KAITO (V1 is my preference but V3 is good too)
 * 5) Kagamine Rin/Len (when they don't sound like annoying chipmunks) aka Neru/Rinto configurations/Dell Honne

6. Sachiko or some other voice banks I've forgotten about

Back to the list:

Least Favorites: This list may be subject to change. I also think it is worth noting that I probably forgot about 10 other VOCALOIDS on my favorites list.
 * 1) Gachapoid
 * 2) Big Al (nice for talking, but I'm not so sure about singing)
 * 3) Megpoid (She's nice, but I think she definitely needs to be used with dynamics or else she sounds flat)
 * 4) LEON
 * 5) LOLA (3 and 4 are outdated.)
 * 6) Hatsune Miku (like the rest of the Crypton VOCALOIDS they are given too much praise.)

Other information:
I might try to see if I can contribute some articles relating to the software. If anyone owns V5, then I assume people can put out articles about how to use the software, or at least post updates on the wiki relating to the official VOCALOID website. Also nobody has talked about the new sound packs Yamaha released for the software (which I screamed happily about.) Why is that?