It was the first vocal released for the iVocaloid iOS app under the name of 'VY1t' and later re-released for the iOS app VocaloWitter. Additional software Īs it was created to head Yamaha products, it has since been released for multiple versions of the software, as the primarily offered vocal and has more releases than any other Vocal for the software. VY1 was also used for VOCALO Revolution, a Vocaloid related TV program that aired in Japan in January 2011, and was used as the singing vocal for the shows mascot ' Cul. Ī male counterpart vocal called VY2 was also later released for this vocal. VY1 also had an overhauled version of the Japanese vocal library system for Vocaloid 2 without the need of an engine update that resulted in 'improved' performance over past Japanese vocals. Compared to many other Vocal releases for the software, it lacks an avatar, though a number of concepts have appeared over time to show individual producer interpretations of the Vocaloid.

It was originally released as a 'Standard' and 'Deluxe' version. Its creation echoed the development of Meiko a number of years earlier. Its name of 'VY1' stands for 'Vocaloid Yamaha 1', its codename of 'Mizki' refers to the flower hanamizuki. VY1 was created to act as a standard Vocaloid product able to produce notable high quality results. It was originally released for the Vocaloid 2 engine. to act as a 'standard' vocal for Vocaloid. So this is not a style either, but really just an artificial chant synthesis tool used in many different productions, some using it as the brandmark of their productions.VY1 is a Japanese female vocal developed by Yamaha Corporation and distributed by Bplats, Inc. However this is not considered a genre, as this is merely a software tool used in the production of many other genres ranging from J-Pop, to PC Music or even Pop-Metal. Hatsune Miku is now Vocaloid's most famous icon, and there are radio/internet songs but also concert with holographic-like projection (same method used for Tupac's hologram) of Hatsune, which has garnered a fan following, but also a whole scene of music producer using Vocaloid as their fabric marker. Vocaloid is a singing/voice -synthesis- (or emulation) software, which as it implies does not just consist in sound banks but voice synthesis algorithms that can be used with different kinds of voice.īecause in Japan and South Korea the 'digital' culture has been around and fully integrated in the popular culture since the 90s, it is not odd that some digital, as in artificial, celebrities such as Hatsune Miku have emerged.

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