User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/Giving up on forums/@comment-3076833-20140729183344/@comment-53539-20140730182953

^I remember Gumi's "Bad Romance" cover with her V2 vocal, I could only hear sections of the song, but the top Youtube comment was "better then Luka and the Engloids".

Basically, making a vocal for a particular language just means you potentially have the best result you can with the Vocaloid engine to recreate that language. What you edit after that, isn't part of the Vocaloid engine design, but your modelling within its restrictions. I've heard some good English from Japanese Vocaloids, but their still never going to recreate the results a built for english vocal will, even if its Luka, Sonika or Nana.

That said, samples are samples... HQ or not, your pretty much stuck with what you got. But, what gets me is people will spend up to 8 hours editing a Japanese Vocaloid sometimes to make it sing other languages, yet if they put just as much effort into a Vocaloid of that same language they'd produce top notch results. But this has been my complain for 4 years now. A Vocaloid is limited by its producers effort as much as its design.

The other issue is, I find with many other fans, Xey isn't alone, a Vocaloid will always be judged by its best works and its poor efforts will be neglected. So Maika messing up English will not be noted by someone like Xey, only the best of her attempts. Because lets face it... Who wants to listen to the crap?

I love finding out the pros and cons of these vocals because its REALLY interesting trivia to me... It also helps me judge vocals as I hear them to see if I can stop the faults and cons for myself. >_<