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So everyone knows about kagerou project by now but let's face it none of the original songs are good because jin loving sucks at the actual vocals part of vocaloid (utaite covers are p sweet though) But kemu made this thing called pandora voxx where some originals are good enough that it actually takes a reasonably good human singer to sound better!! Life Reset Button https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnR-GF8DSak Wind-Up God (ignore the english subtitles they're completely awful) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJdQRgUztI A Tale of Six Trillion Years and One Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAgk-t2zzqw The Earth's Final Confession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQwZVwBvB4 The whole series has like this rock opera overarching plot kind of thing with like, some monkey's paw wish-granting poo poo going on and it's actually kind of emotional and sad if you're a big baby like me
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Oct 10, 2014 06:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJF4_pRcTUE I like this performance because it feels like a concert put on by an actual cult
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Oct 10, 2014 06:04
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Outer Science posted:So everyone knows about kagerou project by now but let's face it none of the original songs are good because jin loving sucks at the actual vocals part of vocaloid (utaite covers are p sweet though) I wish they'd made an anime of this instead of Kagerou E: Not going to lie, I only listened to this song because the guy who did Tsuritama's art did the album art. Song's okay.
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Oct 10, 2014 06:09
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Screw you guys, Luka is the best.
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Oct 10, 2014 07:11
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Woah, hey, Vocaloid thread. Nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMDxKRx10mU This song is one of my favorites. Also, because I'm a huge fan of her work, I'm gonna link to JubyPhonic's channel. She has a ton of really good english covers of vocaloid songs. (Including a fair few of the songs from Kagerou Project.) Some of my favorites are Death Should Not Have Taken Thee, World's End Dancehall, The Game of Life, and Witch Hunt.
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Oct 10, 2014 07:11
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Oh, a new Vocaloid thread? I remember the Niconico Douga thread dying out long ago. I'm still pretty interested in Vocaloid from a technology standpoint, for those cases where producers put in the time and care to tune the singers to mask their robotic aspects and have them sound as realistic as possible. It's a lot of work to get those kind of results, even when starting from a Vocaloid with a more realistic voice bank to start off with, and that's what got me interested in the technology in the first place.
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Oct 10, 2014 07:15
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We are truly living in Gibson's Idoru future now!
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Oct 10, 2014 07:24
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:I like this performance because it feels like a concert put on by an actual cult Nono, this is. But less of a concert and more of an actual summoning of their god. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Ef0-QXj4o
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Oct 10, 2014 09:44
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I kinda got into Vocaloid somewhat after the videos from 39's Giving Day started making the rounds on the internet, especially the World Is Mine one. Had known about it somewhat peripherally from seeing cosplayers at New York Comic Con years ago, but the 39's Giving Day thing was my first major introduction. The next Comic Con, they had a screening of the full concert that overpacked the small panel room they had playing it, and needed to schedule an encore viewing. Also didn't help that Hiroyuki Ito and other Crypton people were there to do a Q&A panel and sign stuff after the screening as well. Started listening to some of the more popular songs at the time (World Is Mine, PoPiPo, Ievan Polka, other stuff) but didn't really get that deep into it. Still, it was always there in the back of my mind, and if I saw some Vocaloid stuff, I'd get involved, like a rebroadcast of a concert in a movie theater at Union Square, or a screening of the 2013 Magical Mirai show, etc. Gotten to the point where I'm maining a modded Vocaloid Civ led by Miku in Civ V (made by the same guy who did the Metal Gear MSF Civ in Speedball's LP in the LP forums; the guy was gifted an account and still posts there from time to time, but not so much since the LP ended. The Civ in question makes culture victories pretty drat easy), so at some point, I could kinda be said to have gone whole hog into this. Disappointed in the Letterman thing last night, Sharing The World is a weird song to listen to since Miku's English soundbank isn't all that great yet and the audience reaction was kinda telling. It is the theme song of the Expo though, and that's what she was on Letterman promoting, so I guess they had to use it. Pretty drat awkward, though. Also wound up missing a Crypton/Miku panel today at NYCC that I didn't know about until I got to the con late to pick up my Crew stuff, which I'm kicking myself over now. Got myself a ticket to the Miku Expo concert at Hammerstein next Friday; hey, had to spend my Jeopardy money on something, right? Wondering if any one else here bought some either for LA this weekend or for New York the following one. Also, still one of my favorite MMD videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT11bhh5_9U GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 10:17
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GhostStalker posted:It is the theme song of the Expo though, and that's what she was on Letterman promoting, so I guess they had to use it. Pretty drat awkward, though. Yea, too bad they didn't get someone worth a drat to make a song. As for real english vocaloid its extremely rare to find something with both correct english and inflection. But its happening more often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOjPgqyGfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQKGUgOfD8U
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Oct 10, 2014 10:46
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Miku's my besty. Pretty cool if you ask me,
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Oct 10, 2014 11:34
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A student in my Japanese 5 class did a speech on why Hatsune Miku, a robot voice program, is his favorite character and said he has a giant Miku collection. He explained afterward that he had spent nearly 700 dollars altogether to fly to New York and watch her concert with a VIP ticket. I don't know what exactly VIP access would grant someone going to see a hologram dance while someone times robot voice to it, but I now know the price tag at least. Also two annoying guys in Japanese 2 did a terrible skit that was vaguely related to how much they liked Miku. I also stayed up through Letterman's awful show because the pre-show announcement called her "Hatsoon Miku" and I was desperate to watch an aged talk show host try and explain what she was. In the end, he barely talked about her and only had a mildly amusing expression, plus the song itself was completely incomprehensible as in I could not make out one single word in any language, so I went to sleep disappointed. Those are my vocaloid stories.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72BfEpcJz5A I have an odd fascination for this macabre one, but it also has a couple much better version with people actually singing it.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:50
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Miku 3:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kutrzwUxjo
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Oct 10, 2014 14:18
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This video is probably even cooler than the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyUCtd6rrWw Same here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tktcOUi-x-A This songs pretty catchy though, and it has dancing cats and time looping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjT2Mi-Hs54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GN2kyvs08U Pretty much all of masataka's stuff rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8mmYLGr0fI Chalupa Picada fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 14:29
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a kitten posted:OK, now that I can see the videos people have posted I'm shocked to find out that literally none of the vocaloid tracks I like have been posted by anyone. So here's Mitchie M is basically the best VocaloidP out there. I've yet to hear a song from him where the tuning/editing wasn't amazing. His latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kX5_69sO8Q
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Oct 10, 2014 16:22
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AnacondaHL posted:
They are good
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Oct 10, 2014 19:36
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Much like the rest of the Internet, >90% of the examples posted in this thread are also poo poo.
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I can't wait till all the olds die and we never have to listen to rock music again
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Oct 10, 2014 19:37
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJF4_pRcTUE this owns also this looks like it was fun as gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMmHO3F4Hso .Clash posted:Nono, this is. But less of a concert and more of an actual summoning of their god. ok this owns too drat now i want to go to a miku concert really badly Admoon fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 21:36
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Oh god Vocaloid thread, time to be a huge nerd! I really like seeing what people can do with this program, to be honest. You get a lot of cute pop songs, but there are a LOT of 'horror' songs that end up working really well due to the unearly kind of sound they have. I personally tend to listen to rock and heavy metal songs, where they often use filters to make the vocaloid they're using sound like they're screaming. And when they don't, I find that high, light voice mixes really well with the harsh guitar rifs and bassline. idk, maybe I'm just weird. Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub3DRNn3ILI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQpH-XTmW5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiD_4A2348 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKyMoKLKax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGDeB8QwtFs Two of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g7I-y9RDEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpv3eZgRWc
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Oct 10, 2014 22:27
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My favorite use of vocaloids so far is that of puppycat from Bee & Puppycat. (puppycat's story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muIisW6L1Sk) I'm just a huge fan of Natasha Allegri, and I think her choice to use a vocaloid for puppycat and make it babbling was just really cool.
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Oct 10, 2014 23:14
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So, I know that most people here really like Miku, but who's everyone's favorite? Mine's Gumi, with Luka as a close second. P.S.: Obligatory Vocaloid song post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JGaQ3g8WU4 Really like the art direction with this one.
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Oct 10, 2014 23:23
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Blaziken386 posted:So, I know that most people here really like Miku, but who's everyone's favorite? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZQ2tvqLgok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ9XSolYpHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_CvG0ezp6A Futaba Anzu fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 23:35
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gumi and ia are objectively the best, rin and len are the worst. well except for this song, this song owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_thpTpNaw
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Oct 10, 2014 23:42
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Nevileen posted:but there are a LOT of 'horror' songs that end up working really well due to the unearly kind of sound they have. I personally tend to listen to rock and heavy metal songs, where they often use filters to make the vocaloid they're using sound like they're screaming. And when they don't, I find that high, light voice mixes really well with the harsh guitar rifs and bassline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqVca_2WkkI As for vocaloids doing covers of songs done by humans originally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFOIkQFsYsw Emalde fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 00:23
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Outer Science posted:gumi and ia are objectively the best, rin and len are the worst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S0qpwbywFc
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Oct 11, 2014 00:28
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Nobody rolls the Rs like Rin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mpZjNCNiEg Miku has some goodies, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuhIJfthURI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8kINfUSc2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrW5NCBYkQs
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Oct 11, 2014 00:44
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Blaziken386 posted:Mine's Gumi, with Luka as a close second. And that's exactly the song I was going to post to highlight it. In general I'm not a fan of Rin and Len's voices, but there's a few songs around that I dig. The first mainly because it really showcases how artificial they sound (plus I totally love the bit that starts around 3:15 and ends with oooooh Wow!), and the second because it messes with the crazy range the program can sing in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdXlrrFw-xQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqU0VTs0g1k Some of the Rin/Len songs that just got posted sound pretty decent too, so maybe I like them more than I thought I did.
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Oct 11, 2014 01:19
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MikitoP is one of the better producers. Shutter Chance is a great song about being the one who can't move on from a relationship (the person in the video isn't the one singing it), while Sorry For Being an Ordinary Magical Girl is one of his better upbeat ones. (He doesn't do very many of them.) Sadly, no subs videos, the one with both of those got taken off the other day. Annoying. Kikuo is one of my favorites, even if some of his stuff is a bit hit-and-miss. For the full listening experience, listen to a Kikuo song once and THEN look up the lyrics, because this is a man where a happy song is "two children freeze to death (but they become the sun and moon)." Cherry Blossoms Before Dawn is a pretty good example. For people that like the music but can't stand actual Vocaloid singing, that same YT account has songs from an album where Kikuo had a human singer; Sunshine is Brief is one I particularly like. In my experience, the best way to actually follow new Vocaloid stuff is to find a few songs you like, look at the channels that translated them, and see what else they've translated... Especially since that's one of the few ways to find good songs from the worse Vocaloids. I probably wouldn't have listened to Drop Pop Candy at all if I hadn't liked another random song the translator group did. (The producer and an utaite did a cover on that one as well, if you're not the Vocaloid type.) VGPerson doesn't do much translating these days, but his channel's good; Game Specter 2 is top ten Vocaloid stuff, easy. In terms of old stuff, you pretty much have to look for songs where the artists worked with the old robotic voices instead of fighting it. Stomp The Enemy and Online Game Addicts Sprechchor are good examples of songs that actually sound worse with human voices instead of weird musical robots. effort-postin' 'bout virtual singing robots
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Oct 11, 2014 01:22
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For all who dislike the robotic voice, here's another tonal Append example that make Miku's voice smoother and more humanish. This is also a good example of how a good effort vocaloid editor can make Miku sound good enough to mimic the original. 'Dark' Append vs Original
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Oct 11, 2014 02:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYVpzeOxtQ
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Oct 11, 2014 02:36
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Einander posted:
Man, I was going to mention kikuo my next post! I guess you've covered him for me, but the dude is a master at "songs that sound cute and happy but are secretly horrible." One of my favorites has to be "I'm Sorry, I'm sorry" which at first glance sounds like a song about cannibalism...but is actually about prostitution. It's worse that all of his songs are so drat catchy. Also, just fyi - VGperson's a girl.
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Oct 11, 2014 04:48
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I'm rather partial to the Kagamines myself. One of my favorites for power songs is Lost Destination. Everything about it is awesome. The music, the video, the lyrics (including the fake latin), everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrOK4yg80g On the silly side, right now I also love this one, Childish War. Really, any song where the vocaloids sing faster than you'd think would be possible for a human brings a smile to my face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pywNi6gD1FA
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Oct 11, 2014 17:32
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darkgray posted:Posting awesome vocaloids itt: darkgray posted:Nobody rolls the Rs like Rin. I even kinda liked the music in that motion captured dance video you linked in the season thread that people thought had bad animation because goons.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:19
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you will notice that i left this out of the "good originals" from pandora voxx, gumi cannot save it
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Oct 11, 2014 19:11
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Montegoraon posted:On the silly side, right now I also love this one, Childish War. Really, any song where the vocaloids sing faster than you'd think would be possible for a human brings a smile to my face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAqRnSP7sQ
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Oct 11, 2014 19:25
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Oh, interesting to hear that other people are fans of Gumi and Ia, I think I'd call those two my top favorites. I don't suppose I should be too surprised, since those two seem to be second and third in general popularity behind Miku, though a far second and third. As mentioned before, I'm mostly fascinated with realistic synthesis, and it seems like those two come up with the highest consistency. It was also a Gumi song that exposed me to the existence of Vocaloid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hZNtYfErfE), so I'm also a little bit biased.
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Oct 11, 2014 19:44
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Mercrom posted:We must have similar taste in music; I never gave a poo poo about vocaloids until you started posting them. Also I don't think I've ever heard a vocalist roll the Rs like that. Is that my cue to post more poo poo? Kagome is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4mMofoxpGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=101ZQMldBb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rolrO1n6BAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPE3RHGGAPk Hana-soumen too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm55afOEJTQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJj7UVc5hdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBWAsqYcrq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZvK1zvIbQ And en: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRuarZOyMKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZW-_BpqWY Maybe I should just spam you in PMs. ._.
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Oct 11, 2014 20:54
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Ferretts posted:Have her sing something that a human can't pull off, or something that might give her a shred of personality and emotion (I'm thinking of The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku for both). Well although it is stated universally it is impossible, a few individuals have proven this incorrect, inside of a Nico Chorus Also I have to agree with people saying that Mitchie M is fantastic. The first song I had listened to from Mitchie M, though less impressive, was this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bnFEb3qrT0
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