User blog comment:CykeP/And Now I'm Torn/@comment-97.102.73.8-20151103023918/@comment-53539-20151103101101

I think in regards to Sonika, its bet noting that she was intended to be a experiment and was their only processed vocaloid. Zero-G doesn't like to process their vocaloids, which is again different to CFM, who process all of their vocals one way or another. I understand why tey do it because a lot of the Japanese fans are hard to push on them. If Miku doesn't sound like Miku they don't like it (still buy it though to a degree).

Not processing a vocaloid too heavily produces a more natural result then a voice acted one, also. :-/

I dont think its ever been stated howany layers of pitching the CFM vocaloids have, so you can't judge them on that. They don't all have smaller layers, as Luka V2 demostrated. Plus Tonio didn't get a large recommended range when ecapsule put him out... Other then Lily having 3 layers of pitch in V2 (1of which was famously too high causing it to impact the overall voice and make it off), this hasn't really been talked about much. Maika had 6 layers altogether, but though people bragged about it, we don't know what those layers were. She could have only had 2 or 3 layers of stationary, which puts her on Yohioloid's level.

Overall, I'd ignore the pitching issue for the moment as itssomething we don't get a lot of details on.