Talk:MEIKO/@comment-47.184.17.156-20190530042648/@comment-53539-20190530065316

This has been asked before and we can confirm that Meiko and Kaito are both due an update, we just haven't heard anything for a while. Studios can take a while to develop vocals.

One thing to consider is that the update could have been for V4, in which case some things would have to be reset. It shouldn't be as bad as Meiko and Kaito V2, which had to be overhauled greatly due the major differences between V2 vocals and V3 ones. In the case of V5... There isn't much difference that great between V3 and V5 Japanese voicebanks except for minor things overall such as modern technological advancements.

CFM has not confirmed either if they adopted the new recording technique from Internet co., Ltd. That may seem something you would consider they'd automatically adopt, but CFM has their own set of development techniques they've always used and they work to their own standard. If they did adopt it, then the problem is they would have to re-record all of each Vocaloids library. For CFM as well, its argued if you need to really use the new technique due to their vocaloids being older then V4... Older Vocaloids sometimes don't see a great deal of updates, for example Gumi Natives more or less been cleaned up each generation since V2 with, and her V3 version just added the missing triphones (they didn't even need the producer back in the studio for this either).

In addition, the recent Sora function freebie that Ah Software confirmed that for 6 months there was no developers environment for V5. With an update to either Kaito or Meiko, an update to Piapro Studio likely will come, and that update has been delayed for 6 months before it could even begin.

As you can sell, we're in a great deal of mystery about what actually is going on overall and all we have is the knowledge that their coming. But... CFM may take until next year for all we know to show up a Vocaloid, they were very late into V3 releasing their first Vocaloid for that engine, even though they were early in V2 and V4. Their pretty unreliable when it comes to predicting whats going to happen.

In addition, they confirmed they were still working on giving Luka Appends. There is also likely to be in here somewhere a update to Miku because Miku is going to be a priority update due to the fact she is responsible for selling up to 1/5 of all sales related to Vocaloid.