Talk:IA ROCKS/@comment-32500188-20140607115116/@comment-32500188-20140608122457

I feel somewhat of the opposite. I think the overall thing that's being aimed for is more capabilities to expand on emotion of a given vocal... say, in being able to have one named vocal sing it all instead of having to break the song into a duet and have another completely different named vocal fill in where the previous couldn't. (Or having the first vocal do it all and sound weird doing it, either by being over-edited or the lacking presence or appropriate color for a given song/section of a piece.)

Seeing as "appends/extends/etc" are an expansion of tone color for a specific type of vocal, personally I feel it's helping enhance and add more to singing expression, as well as give more options on ennunciation of the phonemes some folks couldn't achieve with just the original on its own. (ex: IA ROCKS having more natural-sounding openess in her vowel sounds, something that you can't make IA Original do without it sounding a bit odd or unnatural at times.) And from the experience I've had with the test demo, the fact that she still sounds similar enough to easily transition from one version to the other is a plus...

Short version: I see it as being kind of helpful in making parts where it requires a more "natural"-sounding transition that you would normally hear in the human voice itself, so I don't quite see it as pointless from the user's perspective... though, coming from a previous community who's main company likes to "nickle and dime" people for a bunch of in-game objects/clothing that really don't do much to change the course of the game, I sort of see how you feel on appends/extends being a bit on that level in terms of presenting nothing completely new, Angel. (As in, it just feels like they're both only adding extra in terms of disk space.) XD