Galaco (VOCALOID3)

History
She first appeared in the music video galaxias! by an artist unit of the same name, composed by the singer Kou Shibasaki and musicians DECO*27 and TeddyLoid.

Galaco was first referred to as a Vocaloid when the Vocaloid Shop's competition for Vocaloid 3 voicebanks was extended to allow new Vocaloids V3 Megpoid - Native and V3 Lily as part of the entry for the competition. She was offered as a prize for anyone who managed to get 1,000+ views on Nico Nico Douga in the Yamaha Shop music competition, but announcement of her name nor image did not come up until late April 2012.

Around the month of March, a Demo of her voice was revealed. On the 29th of June, 2012 another demo and PV were released of Kou Shibasaki's song, ANOTHER WORLD.

The vocal was to be awarded in conjuction with the end of the competition on the 30th of June 2012 and the voicebank itself have been released on August 5, 2012. As of June 30, it was awarded to 697 people. She is available only in downloadable version. The download service will expire on Dec. 31, however, new codes can be obtained until then to continue using her. The code for activating her is set to expire on Jan. 31, 2013, new codes can be obtained to extend her usage. Any codes obtained to extend the use of Galaco will expire on the 31st April.

Galaco can be continued to be used after 31st Jan 2013 by one of two methods ;
 * Registration with P-Club
 * Contacting UGC Publishing

Further news on Galaco has been released and continued use via the allocated methods has been extended up to the 30th of October 2013. Support to extend the use of Galaco will end on June 30, 2013. Users must post their serial code to galaco@beat.yamaha.co.jp to get an extension completed. As Galaco is a Japanese database, technical support is only offered for Galaco in Japanese and Yamaha will not accept any new applicants for use of Galaco nor personnel data in the e-mail.

Voicebank Library
Galaco's vocal was handed out as a prize exclusively for those who managed to get 1,000 views in the Vocaloid shop music contest, thus there is currently no plans to release her as a commercial product. Despite being offered as a prize, permanent use of Galaco was never intended and access to her vocal has always been restricted. It should be understood, that while Galaco was possible to be won by overseas producers, technical support and con continue use was only offered to Japanese speakers.

On March the 10th, after US daylight savings adjusted in Windows, some users had reported Galaco began causing problems with the Vocaloid3 engine. This issue caused Vocaloid3 to fail to work and a expire notice appeared. The only apparent solution to this problem was to uninstall Galaco or disable daylight savings updates.

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