Talk:Status/@comment-53539-20180826195930/@comment-53539-20180906212506

Thats because western fans don't know how bad UTAU is now fairing in Japan due to the disconnection. So their behind by a few years. Think about how many still give interest to Neru or Haku, despite no merchandise really featuring them since 2013 from CFMs scope. They want to view them as legit worth like Miku, but the reality is even in Japan there is far less coverage of them then the Vocaloids now. OCs just aren't invested in.

Meanwhile I guess in Japan they see a good replacement that produces results that coule potentially compete with Vocaloid. If it had talk abilities CeVIO and Voiceroid would be under pressure as well. While it doesn't surpass Vocaloid, I think there is a bit of worry about Synth V, whereas there was basically none with UTAU overall as its best was never as good as CeVIO let alone Vocaloid and CeVIO is the worst sounding of the two big synths of their nature. But... I'd not express concerns myself as greatly if V5 wasn't getting a lot of unhappy producers in Japan or the west overall. IT only takes 1 bad release to loose the confidence of consumers and see them walk.

I'm just praying V5's bugs are not enough to turn too many producers off when Vocal synths aren't as popular as they used to be. I still worry that while Vocaloid is selling more copies, that any year now is going to be the year we see a complete level off of sales to the point not much change occurs or a decrease happens. So far we've had every year a good year, but... That can't last forever. And considering while Synth V isn't as good as people think it is in the demos, a free synth of notable quality you can basically work with, is still a huge worrying thing. This is literally the first Synth for free I've got concerned over. I hope my concerns are for nothing, I've been wrong before, so I'm hoping that I'm wrong this time. I was expecting more usage of Synth V as it is and so far the lack of it is the only thing thats got me calm. UTAU never got me concerned as it was LQ overall, despite many UTAU fans refusing to accept that here in the west.