It's a hell of a lot more intuitive to use than the actual Vocaloid program which I thought was really clunky. There's also CC type controls for vibrato and other things. I think it might be easier to purchase these now outside of Japan but I haven't looked into it.īasically once it's all installed and registered you can bring up Vocaloid/Cyber Diva as a track within Cubase, write in midi notes, type in the lyrics on the notes and Cyber Diva will sing it. I think I found some installation instructions in English somewhere on the net too and managed to set it all up. From memory I had to purchase Vocaloid and CyberDiva from the US as a download, and then purchase a physical DVD from Amazon Japan for the Cubase plugin as it's was only available there. I had no demo fee for an actual session singer as it was speculative and thought this could be a good investment for these kind of demos by essentially letting me write the top line and BV's virtually.Īctually purchasing the software was ridiculously difficult (I'm based in Australia). 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.I bought Vocaloid 4, Cyber Diva and the Cubase plugin about a year or more ago as I was putting together a demo for a job - basically a electronic/urban pop track.
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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