Sweet ANN (VOCALOID2)

History
PowerFX took steps when Sweet Ann was to be released. They advertised her by creating a MySpace page and uploaded demos "Alove and "Sweet Ann Vs Kitto" to YouTube. Due to time restraints, the Vocaloid2 software was released without public beta testing with both Sweet Ann and Hatsune Miku being released with relatively little testing done to their Vocaloid2 software.

After Ann's appearance, Vocaloid fell mostly into obscurity in the west due to a change in the trends of the music industry, with the focus of the indie music being taken away from sites like My Space. This was the circle Vocaloid had mostly been aimed at in the west, although Vocaloid was not the only software to be affected by this change and music software in general was hit by the change of styles. Sweet Ann was the last of the English capable Vocaloids to receive great attention by reviewers for a while and the last Vocaloid to be greatly noticed prior to Hatsune Miku's rise to fame.

2011 Taiwanese Exportation
On 01/04/2011 PowerFX's website went down. When it reopened on April 6, 2011, both Sweet Ann and Big Al were sporting a new look.

On April 8, 2011 a PowerFX employee noted that the designs seen on the PowerFX website of both Big Al and Sweet Ann were that of a Taiwanese distributor of PowerFx products and were not the official designs of Big Al or Sweet Ann.

According to PowerFX, they put the Taiwan boxart on their website to try the oblong shape as they preferred it and were thinking about switching to this shape for their Vocaloid products. The boxarts placement was temporary until they could run a Sweet Ann/Big Al competition, however they noted the fandom had insisted that boxart be on the page and had to switch back.

Later demo songs "Carry on", "U belong to me" and Shu-tP's classic song "Night of the Magic" were released by E-Capsule. Later Sweet Ann and Big Al were featured in the song "[at your side 2010". Other songs include "Everlasting Love".

Voicebank Libraries
Sweet Ann was the first English capable Vocaloid and the first Vocaloid voicebank library released for Vocaloid 2. Her voice is an improvement over past female Vocaloid voices Lola and Miriam and is a professional producer aimed voicebank.


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