Zero-G Limited

Zero-G is a company developing sound libraries, sound effects and loops. This company provides its products for many digital audio workstations including Apple Loops, ACID, EXS24, Roland. Zero-G is one of the leading companies in the modern music industry.

About
Zero-G is a company that produces English Vocaloids. According to Crypton, when they were first looking for an English company to recommend for the development of the the English addition of the software, every studio they approached turned down the offer. Finally, Zero-G offered to take upon the task and they later became famous for producing both the first Vocaloids and the first English voicebanks Leon and Lola for the first Vocaloid engine, and later Miriam with improved an voice engine. The voices were sold as a "Singer in a box" and intended to be a back up voice provider. However, Leon and Lola also failed to impact the American market due to their accents.

Despite this, they would later produce the very successful Vocaloid Prima, and create Sonika to act as a company mascot, adopting the Japanese style of producing a avatar for the voicebank for Sonika.

Zero-G began to resell their 3 older Vocaloids due to the increase interest in the Vocaloid program and the program was made ready to download from their site. Links to update their engine from Vocaloid 1.0 to 1.1 were also included. Due to Sonika's success and the use of avatars on other Vocaloids, Zero-G has mentioned in an interview after Sonika's release, they may redesign the boxart of their older Vocaloids with the exceptions of Prima and Tonio who are intended to be as they are. No further word has been mentioned on the redesign. They also made a comment they unfortunately cannot release the names of their vocal providers for legal reasons.

Confirmation in 2011 confirms Yamaha will not support the Vocaloid engine, Zero-G currently will not be updating their Vocaloid engine Vocaloids, focusing on newer vocals instead.

It has been known that Zero-G is to release two Celtic-inspired male and female vocals using the V3 Engine.

Current Voicebank projects

 * Zero-G had announced a Celtic pair, while the female, Avanna, has been released, development of the male counterpart will not begin until at least 2014.

Future Voicebank possibilities

 * According to Anders, if there is demand updates for all past Zero-G Vocaloids to newer engines, it is a possibility. The major factor in this though is the workload needed and involvement in the process against the demand.
 * Anders confirmed that if English Vocaloids become more popular, Zero-G will consider making Appends/Updates for their Vocaloids.

NAMM Trade Show
Leon and Lola were the first promoted at the NAMM show on the 15th of January, 2004, and was eventually commercialized on the 3rd of March, they were created for the English speaking community.

Prima was introduced at NAMM Show 2008;

At a later show, Tonio was also announced.

Fan involvement
During the promotions of Sonika, Zero-G allowed users of the software to upload fanart and songs onto Sonika's website. A comic was also produced by artist Ash.

Zero-G also encourages feedback and have given out their e-mail for feed back as contact@sonika-vocaloid.com.

They are also one of two studios that supports Vocaloid Otaku forums which they use for fan feed back the other studio being PowerFX.

Twitter
Following Sonika's release, Zero-G took a unique stance with her post-release development. They have created and maintained a Twitter page for Sonika, something unheard of for any past Vocaloid.

Competitions
On Nov 2, 2009 and ending on Nov 30, 2009. Zero-G announced a competition; about giving Sonika a new look. The winner would receive a copy of the "Sonika Vocaloid2 Software".

Nearing the end of November, an image was uploaded on Crypton Catalog that represented Sonika's new appearance. It was drawn by artists Mario Wibisono (aka raynkazuya) at the request of Zero-G. And with the image being found out during the New Look Competition and also uploaded to Zero-G's site a few days later, this greatly confused fans and Submitters who thought that this was the winning image.

This was quickly corrected, with Zero-G stating that the competition rules never included anything about the winning image being used for boxart.

A new Competition was also announced prior to her 1st birthday. The prize was a copy of Sonika, Prima or Tonio.