Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-39738226-20190813083506/@comment-53539-20190813123110

A lot of the problem is its only bad when it comes to non-Japanese countires.


 * Japanese? No thanks!
 * High pitched vocal? If I want to listen to chipmunks I will listen to THE Chipmunks!
 * Cartoon character/anime girl? I hate anime its trash!

Pile them up high enough and people can be bias because they don't want to even consider the possibility of liking it. People who grew up with classic singers and liked Elvis, etc, also can have harder times accepting modern music and see it as trash.

So for these people, Miku is not the vocal to introduce people to at all. This is the fandom, so yes, Miku may cox a lot of younger people in, but you have to bare in mind... These same people don't actually know how bad she is compared to a real singer and often argue that there is no difference between Vocaloid and autotuning software... When... There is quite a bit difference.

And Vocaloid can't yet replace a real singer... Because the only way to do that currently is to create "Elvis Project" levels of voicebanks. If you read up on the history of the V1 engine, you'll find Elvis Project there. The trouble is, to create a near-replica of a vocalist, you can't just create 1 voicebank and use it for everything. Within a single song you'll be creating every possible sound and tone they can create, and thats... For 1 song. Those voicebanks become useless for the next song and you have to start again and make the same thing for the next song, thats how much detail is really needed for a true replacement of a real singer. The vocals we use for Vocaloid are a fraction of the full toolset needed. As impressive as the tech is, the moment either way people find out the singer isn't well, their going to be bias too. Esepcailly the elder crowd.

And if you want to be a real musician, you can't use Vocaloid or any vocal synth, because thats taking the job away from an actual singer and people don't like that. Not... Their currently afraid of any of the existing vocal synthesizers.

So with all this in mind, people are sometimes better off learning about Vocaloid through other means. Bruno, Clara, Sweet Ann, Prima, Tonio,etc were often ranked better introductions in V2 for western audiences for a reason. But once they heard a real singer wasn't behind it, thats pretty much it.