Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-1676371-20180513053832/@comment-53539-20180522071920

If Miku gets every voicebank updated, they will most likely rename her XSY group to "Miku V5 Japanese", "English" and add the new "Chinese" XSY group. Whats interest with these XSY groups is that this is like a way to add Appends without adding them right now. Also, Japanese, English and Chinese will end up with different XSY sounds because of it.

The difference in tone from Japanese to English alone means you get slightly softer sounds, therefore the XSY voicebanks won't match up to any XSY equal in the Japanese side as it is. In short if both a XSY group exists of two voicebanks power and soft, then they wont' behave the same during XSY exactly as one pair are already slightly softer.

I still want a tool that equalises out this problem and makes two language voicebanks match more, as even without XSY jumping between languages can change the tone enough to notice at times.

What we're seeing now, even in the Chinese domain is going to be the late engine vocals. These are often vocals too far into the project to restart for V5 or were already announced for V4 more or less and a few other things. Not every studio will release a vocal at this point because it can be dangerous, since the new V5 vocals will be out bidding any release once it comes either late this year or next year.

All that aside I think the Chinese are doing what the English fans aren't and really just observing how bad CFM voicebanks can be at times. We tend to see "OMG Miku is now in English!" and not really focus on how bad the voicebank is, or at least was in V3. This can be a bit of a problem though as they may impact future Chinese releases, if she is selling bad. Saying that, also remember they only produced Engish for a tool for Japanese producers to break into the west, so there is a problem this could be the same reasoning for Miku Chinese. It a pretty crap reasoning by CFM, as they often sell these vocals to the native population of said language, but none the less they did give it as the reason for it.

The other issue is... CFM has been caught lying or at least dancing around a subject, so word of God is sometimes a bit problematic when it comes to CFM. This is the same company who wishes Sweet Ann didn't exist so Miku really was the first V2 at times and often forget to word their speeches around ignoring her like saying she was "the first CV vocal for V2" because it skips Ann. Still I don't think CFM could resist Miku V5, though she is likely to have improvements on EVEC which I'm hoping for, because EVEC needs work.

The real question is are they going to have a big celebration like in V3 or toss out V5 like they did with V4... But V4 only got that saying that because someone retired.