Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140215200755

So, this is somewhat reviving an old thread I started, but I wanted to present some good points noted in the old thread, as I believe this topic is genuinely worth at least a discussion.

In case you didn't see the old thread, here is the jist of what it was-

I emailed Zero-G asking if they wanted to make a NEO for AVANNA, and they replied saying that "Mac VOCALOID isn't happening for a while." What I took away from this is that Yamaha never even told them that NEO existed, and Yamaha was keeping them out of the loop.

So, one of the many points that was given was the VOCALOID websites run by Bplats (particularly English VOCALOIDstore and English VOCALOID.com).

-VOCALOIDStore doesn't have ANY native English vocals, The only English vocals available on the actual English store are GUMI English and Nana English. Yet, they sell MAIKA.

-VOCALOID.com seems to push the English vocals into a corner. (Metaphorically of course). The only time the English VOCALOIDs were given any props was back in the V1 era, when LEON, LOLA, and MIRIAM had the most detailed descriptions over MEIKO and KAITO. From the V2 era and on, they have just been shoved under a tab with hardly any display. Now the reason Yamaha would probably say they do this is because the Engloids are much less popular than the others, but the irony there is that if Yamaha displayed them more prominently on their official VOCALOID site then they would probably be noticed more.

So, I emailed Yamaha about this and the response I got back was VERY vague (this is after I had recieved the email back from Zero-G)

I had basically asked them if anyone had informed Zero-G about NEO and they said-

We cannot give news on future updates.

We have a very good relationship with Zero-G.

That makes me wonder if (now this is probably the detective-novel-loving-conspiracy-enjoying part of me talking) but I wonder if Yamaha is keeping something back from people about the whole English Studio issue. I'm not sure if PowerFX knows anything about NEO, I will email them later.

I know I'm not really in a position to accuse Yamaha of anything, but it at least seems like something that someone should look into. 