Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-47.54.52.134-20171127015630/@comment-53539-20171127175843

Ihavenoideawhatsoever wrote: Still it shows that they are milking Miku. Did no one say anything about that? It seems like something wroth bringing up when talking about her and CFM in general. http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:117219

Vocaloid is a commercial product, honestly, I would see no problem with the name if it wasn't making it bluntly obvious that their intentions for English were commercial. That and the "We're making it for the Japanese producers" kinda meant that the west was shut out almost instantly. Even with demos like Circus monster being used for Kaito... It had no impact, people still buy the CFM vocaloids because their CFM vocaloids. Like the Kagamines English vocals where you seeing people buy it for Len and then you find yourself chuckling as Len is the overall least impressive of the current versions of the English vocals.

Also, despite all this... We can't hold it against CFM, as CFM is not doing this for charity and at least they were honest. I think people feel at times that commercial companies should make a product with the intention to please one individual, the reality is their in it for the money.

But... There is a saying from Disney that sums everything up; "I didn't make movies to make money, I made money to make movies".

You need money to make a vocaloid. That Vocaloid then needs to make you money so you can make another vocaloid. Miku makes them the most money, she makes them a LOT of money in fact. Therefore, they will keep investing in her because of it. For this reason, the issue is that the fans are buy her in over whelming numbers. Then again, if we DIDN'T buy her, the price we'd pay in the long rung would be worst. Miku's V3 release contributed the most to an increase in Vocaloid sales when it was released. Not Gumi... No Luka... Not even Ia...

Ergo, you can only knock Miku so far in the issue before it becomes a sign of ignorance and it shouldn't be a reason for not buying her.

I think as well, we tend to want to push people to buy the vocals we like, we're bias that way. However, in Miku's case, we're not ness. advising against her because we don't like her, its just the vocal isn't the best on offer. When you have a page on the pros and cons of each vocaloid, you tend to be more critical on who you back.

I will add though, English vocaloid itself is a difficult software to work with, but Vocaloid is difficult in general and the only reason why English is difficult is its complex compared to Japanese. Though don't be fooled like many are to believing they are flawless, they have 1/5 the faults but have 1/5 the content in their voicebanks.

Still... I will note that there was a time where if you had asked this question, say on VOforums, you'd have 1 person person Maika or SeeU at least... If you think working with a English vocaloid is difficult, trying to make a non-English vocaloid sing English is even more difficult, despite the claims otherwise.