Talk:VY1v4/@comment-68.99.178.46-20170627220601/@comment-53539-20170628102058

VY1 sold overall a lot better then VY2, so he hasn't been used as much. The voice is still in use though as it appeared in the education version. It may be simply that they are working on it, the voice traditionally has a few problems with quality reported back in V2 that may have long term implications when they update it. Its also been in the Mobile VOCALOID Editor version.

The other thing is they may not see a need to urgently update it as it can already use XSY in its V3 version once imported into V4. Aside from recording methods, some vocaloids having more triphones, XSY and GWL, Japanese vocaloids in V3 and V4 are virtually the same. You can see this with several Vocaloids like Rana V4 or Tone Rion V4, wherein both just add GWl, except for Tone Rion who adds XSY with Nemu.

So while big improvements have met the English vocaloids, the chinese have blown up... And the Spanish vocaloids have disappeared off the face of development. The Japanese vocaloids are now struggling currently to stand out and find ways to improve dramatically like they did in V2->V3 in the current version of Vocaloid.

Overall, VY2 is kinda a mystery as to what is going on with him, but they may be saving any big dramatic updates for V5, or he is seeing the same problems he had in V2.