Vocaloid 2: The Jpop Generator

Monday 17 September 2007 @ 1:10 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 3 Comments

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Jpop is formulaic and predictable, that is a pretty common fact, we still love it and it may in fact be an advantage… of sorts. Take Vocaloid 2 for example, a piece of software that takes advantage of Yamaha’s voice synthesizer technology of the same name and lets you produce Jpop, custom with whatever lyrics and cliched melody you want, all in the voice of a virtual 17 year old Jpop idol, cue raging Idolm@aster fans. The results are pretty damn impressive, I’m just unsure if that’s a compliement to technology or an insult to Jpop.

Here are a couple Vocaloid songs that you are sure to know, first of the obligatory Loituma:

And the Higurashi opening, showing how the software’s interface.

Neat huh?

[Gizmodo]

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3 Replies to "Vocaloid 2: The Jpop Generator"

  1. SechoDB says:
    September 18, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Catchy, that’s for sure. Me like.

    Reply
  2. anthony milligan says:
    November 30, 2007 at 9:54 pm

    i heard about vocaloid but haveing use it

    Reply
  3. Methotrexate. says:
    May 20, 2009 at 4:39 am

    Methotrexate….

    Methotrexate for gtd. Methotrexate….

    Reply

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