Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.66.32.27-20141028214010/@comment-53539-20141114114358

MahApplez wrote: I'm really hoping Gakupo does because he's got such a killer range (largest of any male I believe) and such a nice voice with a decent variety of well made Extends to use for contrasts in a song. Gackt can even speak English so maybe we could have an English V4??? Although... I heard some rumor that Gackt damaged his voice last time when recording Gackpoid V3 Extends. How true that is, I cannot say... Gackpo's got a decent range, there are larger ranges but their all female. Most of the males this generation had disappointingly small ranges, but it was explained in V2 that more bassy or lower ranges are harder for Vocaloid to handle, hence why Big Al suffered a lot. I don't know if they fixed that in V3, but it might explain some of the reasons why the few males we did get have a limited more range. Either that or profit...

Gackpo is low-med range though, makes him the opposite of Piko, who is best high rather then low. I tend to find that, like with Piko people don't always stick with the recommended ranges. Unless the producer knows what their doing, trying to get a Vocaloid to do stuff outside their favourite range can be painful. Piko's lower rangers are really LQ, but a lot of fans seem to like it despite the dip in quality... Makes me wonder why they bother with ranges.

Unfortunately we've yet to have a English Gackpoid confirmed but its not off the table.

Rumours are rumours, take with a pinch of salt.