Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-92.3.202.241-20150420160231/@comment-29714788-20160614224328

@NeevaDash Uh...how exactly is Luka's reputation "quite sexual"??? She's only sexual if a producer depicts her as being that way. Also she's one of the last vocals I'd ever call nasal sounding, especially her English.

I guess Miki's voice being ear piercing is a matter of opinion, but I find the Kagamines' voices much more "ear piercing" than Miki's.

It was stated by Zero-G that Sonika was an experiment because her samples were edited, obviously Sweet Ann would sound more natural.

Regarding V4 Flower, there's no specific way that someone who identifies as a gender should look like. I personally like Flower's V4 design better. It was Gynoid's choice to give Flower a tomboyish design and they don't have to make her look more feminine to fit into gender stereotypes. Flower didn't warrant additional voicebanks for some reason, you should be glad she even got updated at all. Also keep in mind that Flower, like every other Japanese Vocaloid, is targeted to the Japanese market. Even if you want her to get more voicebanks they don't care about what western customers want.

Ruby doesn't sound that unnatural tbh, she doesn't sound completely realistic but has some expression in her voice unlike Cyber Diva. The unnatural sound is something that a lot of power type vocals suffer from, that's why the softer English vocals like Avanna and Daina sound more natural. Especially considering that English is a language that has a lot of tone variation, so a voice acted vocal like Ruby will sound less natural as a result. The Vocaloid engine didn't do Ruby any favours, it gave her a nasal tone and that's really because of Vocaloid itself, not the build of the voicebank. Btw Gumi English isn't any more realistic than Ruby is, they're both voice acted.