Talk:VOCALOID5/@comment-25224941-20181013043416/@comment-53539-20181118190529

No vocaloid could really replace Piko though. Could any of the vocals you mention sing high and low notes without sounding forced? Not really.

Mostly females, but VY2v3 falsetto could sing high and thats male. Piko was a mid to mid-high, it wasn't even as high as Len's vocal (be it Len is based on a female vocalist), but he didn't go that high. But overall, VY2, Yuu, Yohioloid, Arsloid, Fukase and even Oliver (despite being English) all cover the basic ranges Piko have between them to various levels. All young masculine to teen or young adult. And even if that was not the case, most of the time you'll be getting a female vocal for high notes as generally they handle it better then males, and even if this wasn't the case Piko is at best MQ. The HQs were Luka V2 (lowest HQ), the Appends, The VYS and Iroha. So everything below them is LQ to MQ, least with Japanese vocals. Even Gumi, Gackpo and Miku are all LQ vocals because V2 but V2 had a lot more improvement room to give then future versions. Generally, later vocals were better then pre-2009 ones for this reason.

So when we think of Piko we don't think of some super awesome vocal nor that he was so unique he hasn't been replaced by other vocals since. Even that, bare in mind as I keep saying in all of Vocaloid we've lost 1 Japanese Vocalodi, not 20, one. We've lost more outside of Japanese then that. And even if we get a newer version still remains the soul fact that we aren't his target market, nor is it worth asking for something unless you want to buy it.