Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160430010301/@comment-53539-20160703082111

Scintillarescenza wrote: Speaking of Miku V4X, how come she has such a tiny vocal range? All the Internet vocals have 3 octave wide ranges but Miku and the other Crypton vocals have at most half of that. Back in V2 Crypton's character vocals had the advantage of high range but now Miku has the tone of a soprano but the range of an alto which is an awkward combination. I get that they want to make their singing range more "realistic" but that doesn't work when Miku's voice type isn't realistic in the first place. I generally don't like Miku but I prefer her high register over her low register because she sounds so nasal and Ryuto-ish in a low range. I'm putting it down to the smaller range means less time spent building 1 vocal. That means they can turn out more voicebanks in fraction of the time it takes to make 1. Plus being voice acted, it doesn't help s your getting shallow vocal range of the providers full capabilities. Few voice actors have the ability to stay in character and change range and make you convinced its the same character.

Its easier for more realistic vocaloids because they don't have to worry about staying in character and can abuse the vocal range. The realistic ones, however, have a lot more consequences, unpleasantness can a lot more easily come out in them and having large vocal range means you could end up very different high and low, which is not always as useful.

Plus being an update of a V2 vocal, you can't do a lot with the vocal. At this stage they are sticking with tone variation over range variation for this reason. The modern Vocaloids coming out now have a lot more room to try new things. Even Gackpo and Gumi have similar issues. People don't like it if Miku sounds too unMiku-like t times.