Few weeks ago, after I found it on sale in Akiba's Laox MusicVox shop, I posted about Vocaloid 2 on my mixi blog. According to Akiba blog and several other sources seems that this music software has been really succesfull (it's on top spot of Amazon Japan sales ranking) and the first printing is already sold out. Vocaloid is a technology and application software developed by Yamaha that enables users to synthesize authentic-sounding singing by just typing in the melody and the lyrics of a song. Yamaha announced its development in 2003, and in 2004 the first application software product was launched. It was not released as a Yamaha product, but a software package of Vocaloid Singer Libraries developed by third party licensees (Zero-G and Crypton) which included Yamaha's Vocaloid software. Vocaloid 2 singer, just released by Crypton, features the voice of Atsune Miku: a 16 years old virtual Singer (according to her official bio she is 158 cm tall, weights 42 Kg and loves pop and dance music).
These are official MP3 demo songs: Song 1, Song 2 and Song 3 or YouTube medley.
In the last two weeks Atsune Miku stormed the japanese otaku and video gamers undeground and many users poster their own music created with Vocaloid 2 on Nico Nico (japanese equivalent of You Tube). It's really impressive how powerfull can be a 100$ software! Finally anime and videogame fans can have their personal seiyu in their room!
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
Sir, I am offended! The young representation of a woman in question is distinctly waving her leek at us, not spinning it. I do declare this to be treachery of the foulest sort.
Seggybob wrote:So, jpop can now be performed with absolutely 0% human involvement. Impressive.
Nay, not impressive, but inevitable. It was merely a matter of time before they excised the last vestiges of humanity from that soulless art.
"Hey, gang, we're all part of the spleen!"
-PZ Meyers
K so I've actually tried the program now, and it is seriously made of WIN and GOOD. It's surprisingly easy to use. I was able to get it to pseudo-sing the Morrowind theme song in a few minutes.
Shogoki wrote:I can't stop laughing at this for some reason, lol.
Though that video was funny but I saw the original and I found that kid to be very pathetic and needs a lot of time away from the computer. Unless of course it was all a fake.....
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"Whilst human alchemists refer to the combustion triangle, some of their orcish counterparts see it as more of a hexagon: heat, fuel, air, laughter, screaming, fun." Dawn of the Dragons
