Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20150709181231/@comment-26427856-20150811233734

EmbraceEvil wrote: Johatsun Kikuro wrote: EmbraceEvil wrote: Kajiki wrote: What Yamaha could do to extend the lifespan of the 6 remaining V2's without an upgrade plan, is hand over library importing to the companies and let them sell these old vocals (with no other changes) ready for the V3 plug-in format.

Not that I think they will. :( too much for outdated products Wait, wait. What does that mean exactly?  Does that mean that at some point the V2s will become unusable?   Or are you just saying "lifespan" and meaning like before those Vocaloids become retired?

And I thought V2 voicebanks could be imported into V3. And V3 voicebanks can be imported into V4, right? What about V2 -> V4 though? Would the V2 voicebank have to be imported into V3 and then have that be imported into V4? Or could a V2 voicebank be imported directly into V4 and still work?

I still haven't found out if V2 will still work on Windows 10. they are outdated in that they are V2's and in that they will have issues in windows 10 as V1's have in earlier versions of Windows. I believe importing them helps, but V2's are old and Yamaha has no obligation to support VB's that are old and unlikely to be bought as much as new VB's. GREAT. DX   So does that mean that once I upgrade to Windows 10 Sonika won't work as well as she does now on Windows 8.1? Isn't there a way to run a program in compatibility mode for older versions of Windows? Could that be done with Vocaloid2 Editor and then would it still work as it should?

I wasn't planning on getting the Vocaloid3 Editor. I have the V2 Editor because it came with Sonika. I purchased Avanna when she was on sale but I can't use her yet because I don't have the V3 Editor since I'd have to buy that separately. I'm planning on getting Dex (and Daina too if Zero-G will sell them together) and I'd purchase the V4 Editor then. Avanna had better work in V4 because I haven't even touched her yet. I haven't even downloaded her files yet! (I should really do that.)

For Sonika in V4 and V2 in Windows 10, obviously if both of those things worked that'd be great. If Sonika won't work right in V4 (on Windows 10) then I'd need V2 to work right on Windows 10. If V2 won't work right on Windows 10, then I'd need Sonika to work right in V4 (on Windows 10). As I said, if both of those would work then that'd be best, but if I had to choose only one of those things to have work, I'd probably choose for V2 to still work right on Windows 10 so that way I could continue to download and use VSQ files.

Unless... Does V4 allow you to import VSQ files? I'm pretty sure V3 does, but I won't have that.