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Revision as of 15:36, 17 August 2019
SONiKA is an English VOCALOID developed and distributed by Zero-G Limited, and was released in July 2009 for the VOCALOID2 engine. SONiKA is advertised as a "virtual vocalist modeled on the voice of a young girl pop singer"; her voice provider has never been revealed.
Concept
She is the first native English speaking VOCALOID to use a character design and profile as part of the product. SONiKA was released with profile/biographical information on the back cover of the software package, similar to the other VOCALOID2 products. Her personality also shows in her "tweets".
It was stated in the live stream for DEX and DAINA that SONiKA was an experiment.[2]
Etymology
The name "Sonika" is Hindi, a girl's name based on the Hindi word for "golden beauty", and was likely chosen due to a resemblance to "sonic" (relating to sound).
Appearance
According to her twitter messages, SONiKA's hair color is able to change color (e.g. from green to red), she also has freckles that show in the summer heat.
The tattoo on her left side is her name in katakana as " ソニカ ".
Relations
For more on VOCALOID relationships, see the FAQ.
SONiKA is the first VOCALOID to coin the concept of "The VOCALOID Family". This was previously a fan concept that accepts all VOCALOIDs as a form of undefined "family". SONiKA, however, became more definite on how she was related to certain VOCALOIDs.
- SONiKA regards LEON, LOLA and MIRIAM as her older siblings
- Prima as her "auntie" and Tonio as her "uncle".
- She referred to BIG AL as "her best friend" when asked about which VOCALOID she talked to the most.[3]
- All other VOCALOIDs are referred to as her cousins.[4][5]
In regards to VOCALOID3 she was glad to be getting more brothers and sisters, and stated she was looking forward to meeting her new friends and singing along side them.
History
Marketing
Prior to SONiKA, Zero-G did not do much to market their VOCALOIDs, since they sold based on reputation of their products to a strictly professional market and most marketing was done via traditional means (such as software reviews).[6] Unlike past VOCALOIDs, SONiKA was a more fandom driven VOCALOID. Rather than target professionals, Zero-G focused on selling SONiKA to the VOCALOID fans. This produced in both positive and negative results, with the most important advantage being that Zero-G was able to create links with the VOCALOID English fandom that never existed previously. The downside was that any disappointments around SONiKA were more felt than with previous VOCALOIDs they had made since they were talking to the fans of VOCALOID software directly.
Voicebanks
- SONiKA
- SONiKA was the first VOCALOID by Zero-G to have editing done to samples, as normally they allow their voicebanks to sound natural to keep realism. As such, SONiKA copied popular techniques that Japanese VOCALOIDs were using in VOCALOID2, with mixed results. SONiKA is a young, female vocal with a sweet, soft sounding, youthful voice.
Music featuring SONiKA
Featuring | SONiKA
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Categories | Original song |
Description | A part of the Album, "So What"
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Featuring | SONiKA
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Producers | sasukeninjagal
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Categories | Original song |
Featuring | SONiKA
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Producers | Skella Bella
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Categories | Original song |
- "VOCALOID SONiKA" on Niconico Video
- "VOCALOID SONiKA" on YouTube
- "VOCALOID SONiKA" on bilibili
- "VOCALOID SONiKA" on SoundCloud
Reputation
Status
Google Trends |
Sales |
She was reported as having sold much better than past VOCALOIDs designed only for the English language. According to a flyer in 2011, SONiKA was the 13th most popular Zero-G product in 2011.[7] In 2012, she was in 19th place.[8] She was absent from the rankings in 2013, but returned to hold the no.35 spot in 2014.[9] In 2015, both her and Tonio failed to make it onto the top 50 rankings.[10] The 3 VOCALOID2 vocals have not appeared in the rankings since 2016. |
Reaction |
While many of the Vocaloid fandom has expressed a desire to see an improved version of SONiKA, it has been confirmed by Zero-G that they have no intentions of improving her voicebank.[11][12] |
Misc |
An independent search on Nico Nico Douga revealed that most VOCALOIDs had less than 1,000 videos uploaded to Nico Nico Douga in 2011 between July 1st and December 15th, a category which SONiKA fell into.[13] In 2013 a poll on E-Capsule's website showed that SONiKA got the most votes of interest out of the Zero-G VOCALOIDs. |
Trivia |
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Achievements |
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References
- ↑ FAQ - Why are some voice providers not revealed?
- ↑ link
- ↑ tweet 3:31 AM - 6 Jul 11
- ↑ tweet 2:28 AM - 5 Aug 09
- ↑ tweet 2:30 AM - 5 Aug 09
- ↑ link Vocaloid company by halkun
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- ↑ link
- ↑ link
- ↑ link
- ↑ [1] Engloid Blog - Improvements to voicebanks are a no go.
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[2] VocaloidOtaku - Sonika (safe link)[dead link] - ↑ link Vocaloid on Nico
- ↑ [3] DeviantArt - Kjbionicle; Sonika's "New Look"
External links
Language | Description | Site |
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English | Zero-G Limited official homepage | Link |
English | VOCALOID2 SONIKA product page | Link |
English | Sonika Vocaloid The official website for VOCALOID SONiKA | Link |
English | Sonika @SonikaVocaloid The official Twitter account for VOCALOID SONiKA | Link |
English | deviantArt , art and media community | Link |
Japanese | Pixiv , art and media community | Link |
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