... And all I have to show for it is a picture:
And a sound clip of her saying the name of this website.
Showing posts with label Vocaloid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vocaloid. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
So Today's Miku's 3rd year anniversary...
Monday, May 24, 2010
Running a panel by yourself is hard.
My desktop last Tuesday told me that it was going to take 12 hours to piece together and shrink this video down to a smaller filesize, and this was my reaction:
Anyway, the reason why I wasn't really talking much for the past two months was because of this:
And you can watch what transpired! You might have to right-click on the links below to download them, unless you don't mind streaming video files over 100MB:
Low quality version (120MB)
High quality version (500MB)
The attendance was pretty good given there was zero advertising whatsoever.
Other miscellaneous stuff from the panel:
- Slide for the part where I mention the shiny dots (16:51)
- Slide regarding Miku's tattoo (18:17)
- Transcript of speech (42:10) along with a better picture of the punchline (42:49)
Q&A stuff:
43:24
The first question that they ask me is my opinion of the fact that Black Rock Shooter isn't a real Vocaloid. For those of you who don't know the story behind that, Black Rock Shooter was a character created by Huke, who is part of the group Supercell, which ryo founded, and ryo is the most well-known vocaloid composer in the scene; he's so big that the first five songs in Free Play Mode of Project Diva are his.
Anyway, ryo was impressed by the character design, and decided to make a song about the character. Since they had to upload the song onto Nicovideo, they also made a video to accompany it. At animelo 2009 (which I mentioned in my Project Diva article), a pilot animation was shown to everyone attending there for the first time that there was going to be an anime about this. Which hasn't come out yet, as you heard in the panel.
You can't really hear the first part of my answer to that question, which was I had nothing really against the fact that Black Rock Shooter (yes, that's her name) isn't a Vocaloid, even though she clearly looks like a Miku clone.
After the part where I say, "I hope it doesn't suck," (43:51) someone else in the audience says something along the lines of, "Well, at least the song itself doesn't suck," and you can see my reaction to that. ;)
44:01
Teto is a voice database created using UTAU, an open-source clone of the Vocaloid software; you can see the design of Teto near the end of the Shugo Chara! MAD animation I showed everyone in the audience (11:35), which is the girl with the red curly pigtails holding loaves of bread near the end of the video.
The story behind her was a group of people (whose name escapes me) were trying to trick fans of Crypton's Vocaloids into believing that Teto was going to become the next database released from them (hence why the earliest "official" designs of her resembled KEI's shading) for April Fools. Despite her not being a Vocaloid, she's still somewhat popular with the masses, hence why they asked me that question.
You guys probably can't hear the latter part of my answer to that question (44:33), which was, "from what I have heard of her, I really couldn't make out what she's saying." This was because the only time I heard Teto used was in a music video called Triple Baka, which is a pretty popular song.
49:08
Some dude asks me when the Blu-Ray version of the concert Sega held on 3/9/2010 (aka- Miku Thanksgiving day) was going to be released, as though I was an industry insider. I really wish I was.
49:30
Then some other dude answers something that wasn't even related to that question saying that the numbers 3 and 9 can be pronounced as "Miku" in Japanese, kind of how 765 can be pronounced as "Namco" or 573 can be pronounced as "Konami."
49:48
The person in the audience asks a question about whether we'll ever see a Vocaloid concert over here in the States.
50:17
Some dude mentions about a website called Japanfiles as an alternative to using iTunes. I checked the website, and it's pretty sparse in regards to Vocaloid music. It's almost no contest in comparison. Not only that, but the prices are higher in Japanfiles than they are in iTunes.
And if all you're concerned about is not giving your credit card info to Apple, you can just buy gift cards and use those instead. And they've removed all DRM from their music since April of last year. Here's some proof.
Well, it's not all bad for Japanfiles though; they do have one complete album while iTunes doesn't.
Ugh, I'm tired from trying to transcribe all of that. That's pretty much the gist of the Q/A part of it, but I'm sure I left out a lot more than that. Overall it was pretty fun even though I was like, really tired and running on 36-something hours of no sleep on that day.
Anyway, the reason why I wasn't really talking much for the past two months was because of this:
And you can watch what transpired! You might have to right-click on the links below to download them, unless you don't mind streaming video files over 100MB:
Low quality version (120MB)
High quality version (500MB)
The attendance was pretty good given there was zero advertising whatsoever.
Other miscellaneous stuff from the panel:
- Slide for the part where I mention the shiny dots (16:51)
- Slide regarding Miku's tattoo (18:17)
- Transcript of speech (42:10) along with a better picture of the punchline (42:49)
Q&A stuff:
43:24
The first question that they ask me is my opinion of the fact that Black Rock Shooter isn't a real Vocaloid. For those of you who don't know the story behind that, Black Rock Shooter was a character created by Huke, who is part of the group Supercell, which ryo founded, and ryo is the most well-known vocaloid composer in the scene; he's so big that the first five songs in Free Play Mode of Project Diva are his.
Anyway, ryo was impressed by the character design, and decided to make a song about the character. Since they had to upload the song onto Nicovideo, they also made a video to accompany it. At animelo 2009 (which I mentioned in my Project Diva article), a pilot animation was shown to everyone attending there for the first time that there was going to be an anime about this. Which hasn't come out yet, as you heard in the panel.
You can't really hear the first part of my answer to that question, which was I had nothing really against the fact that Black Rock Shooter (yes, that's her name) isn't a Vocaloid, even though she clearly looks like a Miku clone.
After the part where I say, "I hope it doesn't suck," (43:51) someone else in the audience says something along the lines of, "Well, at least the song itself doesn't suck," and you can see my reaction to that. ;)
44:01
Teto is a voice database created using UTAU, an open-source clone of the Vocaloid software; you can see the design of Teto near the end of the Shugo Chara! MAD animation I showed everyone in the audience (11:35), which is the girl with the red curly pigtails holding loaves of bread near the end of the video.
The story behind her was a group of people (whose name escapes me) were trying to trick fans of Crypton's Vocaloids into believing that Teto was going to become the next database released from them (hence why the earliest "official" designs of her resembled KEI's shading) for April Fools. Despite her not being a Vocaloid, she's still somewhat popular with the masses, hence why they asked me that question.
You guys probably can't hear the latter part of my answer to that question (44:33), which was, "from what I have heard of her, I really couldn't make out what she's saying." This was because the only time I heard Teto used was in a music video called Triple Baka, which is a pretty popular song.
49:08
Some dude asks me when the Blu-Ray version of the concert Sega held on 3/9/2010 (aka- Miku Thanksgiving day) was going to be released, as though I was an industry insider. I really wish I was.
49:30
Then some other dude answers something that wasn't even related to that question saying that the numbers 3 and 9 can be pronounced as "Miku" in Japanese, kind of how 765 can be pronounced as "Namco" or 573 can be pronounced as "Konami."
49:48
The person in the audience asks a question about whether we'll ever see a Vocaloid concert over here in the States.
50:17
Some dude mentions about a website called Japanfiles as an alternative to using iTunes. I checked the website, and it's pretty sparse in regards to Vocaloid music. It's almost no contest in comparison. Not only that, but the prices are higher in Japanfiles than they are in iTunes.
And if all you're concerned about is not giving your credit card info to Apple, you can just buy gift cards and use those instead. And they've removed all DRM from their music since April of last year. Here's some proof.
Well, it's not all bad for Japanfiles though; they do have one complete album while iTunes doesn't.
Ugh, I'm tired from trying to transcribe all of that. That's pretty much the gist of the Q/A part of it, but I'm sure I left out a lot more than that. Overall it was pretty fun even though I was like, really tired and running on 36-something hours of no sleep on that day.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Not quite the MADWorld I was expecting...
A MAD is essentially a music video that either attempts to juxtapose characters from a completely different series into an existing opening video from another or use a song that was meant for something else and make a completely "original" music video with it using characters from a random series.
... Maybe it's better if I just showed you an example of a MAD instead. THE iDOLM@STER has festivals dedicated to this stuff on Nicovideo, and a lot of them are pretty amazing:
And if you're wondering, yes, they literally recorded those animations from the 360 port of the game, somehow pulled them out from the background stage, and did lots of clever tricks to make it look like that. And since Project Diva has been released into the wild, someone decided that maybe it was a good idea to apply this technique using Sega's 3D models of Crypton's Vocaloids. Hopefully events dedicated to this will start popping up more so I can talk about it later:
And with this post, I officially declare Vocaloid Week to be over. Hope you enjoyed my random discoveries.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Hachune Miku plays her own song
Well, not really:
Even though that was kind of a bad performance, the person's programming skills improve to the point where it perfects a song I haven't been able to on Hard yet because, well, it is HARD! The hardest in the entire game, actually!
I am LATE ☆ POSTING!
Runo originally announced his career as a music composer in Second Life who now makes tunes for an idol group called Negicco and supervised their Tokimeki High School (which has no relation to this game) Summer Festival just a few weeks ago. Since this is Vocaloid Week, I'm now going to say that his rise to fame came from using Miku as the vocals for his songs:
Yeah, nothing spectacular and sounds like a generic kz clone. Don't worry though; he does get better:
That song then inspired some girls from the Niigata Performance School to sing it live. His style eventually becomes a cross between OSTER Project's use of instruments and happy feelings with kz's signature dance beat.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Happy love as groovy sound indeed
Aliced Twilightz is a group primarily consisting of two people: KTG and Linco. In terms of musical style, they're very similar to kz of livetune fame and tend to work with a wide variety of people when making music. Unlike kz however, not all of their works use Vocaloids as the singers, but one of their most ambitious songs uses Miku as the vocals with Rin and Len Kagamine as the chorus, and it sounds pretty awesome:
Sometime later in 2008, it turned into a full music video and could be easily mistaken for an opening sequence to a shoujo Vocaloid anime:
What's even more interesting though is that the art style is not that much different from Hideyuki Takenami's designs for Sega's re-imagining of the Puyo Puyo universe after they acquired the rights from Compile. I'd be somewhat surprised if these renditions of the Vocaloids appear as exclusive extra characters in the PSP version of Puyo Puyo 7.
You can download the Karaoke version of this song from their website, and the direct link to it can be found here.
It's really hard to find a good Prima Vocaloid
I was going to post some more Japanese related Vocaloid stuff, but then I realized that I'm not representing the West too well since Zero-G was the first licensed company to release Yamaha's technology to the public, who also happens to be located in the UK. So I decided to find some good songs from their first second-generation Vocaloid named Prima, who was meant to sing opera-based songs:
And I came up empty-handed in my search for looking for good songs from her, since almost every single one I've come across tried to make her sing to genres that she wasn't designed to sing, or she was programmed by Japanese people, which already is a huge handicap since they're almost always trying to make her sing pop songs in English, which is also not Prima's real strength either. However, I did discover a few neat things in my search- the first is that the Japanese already have a manga-esque version of her circulating around the Internet (even though she looks a little bit too young, which is okay if that's her super-deformed version), and I did find a song of her singing in Japanese which didn't grate my ears:
That looks infinitely much better than whoever did that illustration for the Zero-G demonstration. At least for me, anyway.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Perhaps this is the Annual Vocaloid Week
Remember how in my Project Diva article I mentioned the Korg DS-10 Synthesizer and linked to this video?
That's obviously no feat performed by mere mortals. As a matter of fact, shu-t is a top-tier composer who also happens to like using Vocaloids and Korg products (which explains why he has a DS with that synthesizer software, and you should watch his videos if you want to know the full potential of it). How good is he? He can make a 1st generation Vocaloid sound close to a real person:
Definitely someone they should use in the next Vocaloid rhythm game.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
I guess this will be the beginning of the Annual Vocaloid Week?
There's a lot of artists that Sega didn't pick up for Project Diva. Sasakure-P was one of them, and that Gummy Bear Remix song I linked to yesterday (more like today, since I forgot to publish it last night) is one of his more recent works. His style typically uses chiptunes and hand-drawn sprites that emulate the NES for his Vocaloid videos, although there are exceptions like this one which looks and sounds more 16-bit:
And is half of a depressing two-part video series. The second half is more 8-bit, and despite sounding happy with blue skies and colorful sprites, is still sad:
Maybe this guy's being saved for a DS or Wii release?
Monday, August 31, 2009
AHHH
I've lost it... make the madness stop...
Miku: GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI...
GUMI: Oh I'm a gummy bear. Yes, I'm a gummy bear. Oh I’m a yummy tummy funny lucky gummy bear. Oh I’m a jelly bear. Cause I´m a gummy bear. Oh I’m a movin’ groovin’ jammin’ singing gummy bear.
*POP*
Miku: GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI...
PEEOOOOO~ DONG!
Miku: GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI GUMI...
GUMI: Oh I'm a gummy bear. Yes, I'm a gummy bear. Oh I’m a yummy tummy funny lucky gummy bear. Oh I’m a jelly bear. Cause I´m a gummy bear. Oh I’m a movin’ groovin’ jammin’ singing gummy bear.
Ba Ba Bidubidubi Yum Yum Ba Ba Bidubidubi Yum Yum Ba Ba Bidubidubi Yum Yum
Three Times You Can Bite Me
Ba Ba Bidubidubi Yum Yum Ba Ba Bidubidubi Yum Yum Ba Ba Bidubidubi Yum Yum
Yukyabaibaimen*
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN
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