Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-198.91.130.55-20161117004735/@comment-53539-20161117230322

The thing is the biggest driving force has always been Japan in the Vocaloid fandom. The majority of producers in Japan are male. 80% of DTM magaine, which recently released its last paperback issue are male. DTM magazine was the main front of Vocaloid for a long time and had the biggest magazine coverage and most detailed.

The other issue is, a lot of the produce who DO use males always use the ones which are considered the best go-to vocals such as Kaito. Len is only s popular as he is because of being sold with Rin in Japan and has about 1/3 less popularity then her. The only other male vocal used ends up being Gackpo.

Male vocals tend to focus on lower ranges, which is natural as males in real life don't usually go past tenor. As I said on Cyber songman's page... A lot of people try and treat the males as female vocals and push them into the higher octaves. The younger male vocals handle it better usually, but the older hate it. So we have in addition the issue of nobody knows how to use them right and they use them as a female vocal would be used. You can't do that. But Vocaloid itself traditionally struggles with lower ranges.

So every studio focuses on Alto, Mezzo-sopranos an sopranos instead of Baritsones, tenors and bass.