Sunday, February 17, 2013

Otaku Dictionary: Vocaloid

Noun
 1) A very famous icon in the anime-manga area. Vocaloid is actually a software program that allows the user to create songs with vocals, kind of like Garage Band. (I think; I've never used one) Contrary to popular belief, the first vocaloids were Leon and Lola, who sang in English. The most famous vocaloids are Japanese, but now there are vocaloids that sing in Spanish, Chinese, and Korean. The most famous vocaloid is Hatsune Miku.
To understand the beauty of Vocaloid, I would suggest you just YouTube search it. And even the first ones that come up won't be the highest quality, as the newest voicebanks, V3, are new, but amazing.
Some of the most recognizable Japanese vocaloids are Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len (Rin is a girl, Len is a boy, they're created by the same voice, often siblings or soul mates in songs), Gumi Megapoid, Kaumi Gakupo, Megurine Luka, Kaito "Shion" (no official last name), IA (the new star, overtaking Hatsune Miku), Mayu (that chick that no one really likes)

Some notable producers (in my opinion) are: 150p (creator of Shuuen No Shiori), Suzumu (often write lyrics for others, but has also created whole songs), Jin (also known as Shinzen No Teki-P; creator of Kagerou Daze), Hitoshizuku (creator of Night trilogy, Synchronicity trilogy, and several other famous songs), out of service, Yucha (wrote pretty much everything several famous songs), Neru (writes lots popular songs), Kemu (creator of "Pandora Voxx")

Most of these songs are first uploaded onto "NicoNico", (NicoVideo.jp), but subbed versions of popular songs will often show up on YouTube

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