#idk its been a while since i shared i voca song i liked

[pepsimanan]

YOUR ART STYLE IS SO PRETTY!! If it’s not too much (and if you’re still taking requests then) could you maybe draw fukase…???

#34 fukase

[kait0taku]

wait could i have a condensed history of the vocaloids?? if not it's totally chill and i completely understand

OOF i’m really glad you’ve asked that, but i’m not so sure i’m the best person for it!! i’m much better at just dispensing random bits of information, as opposed to really… organizing all i know into any sort of.. chronological order, yenno? lmao but hey, lemme share what i can with you okay!!　

first of all, i’ve definitely read one thing that i thought was really freaking cool bc it really dives into the history of voice synth development as a whole. though it really doesn’t focus that much on vocaloid, as it mostly just focuses on what laid down the foundations and paved the way for vocaloid to come into existence in the future. i’d really recommend it if you might be interested in learning that much history!! honestly, it could surprise just how far back voice synthesis goes. 😱 i thought it was a modern thing but it totally isn’t!!! so yeah heres the article for that if you're interested!　

buuuut you did say it was vocaloids history you really wanted to know, so in that case, since that doesn’t focus on it too much, heres the official timeline of releases and major vents pertaining to vocaloid straight from the wiki!

wikipedia might also be worth checking out too! heres a link directly to the section about software history.　

BUT HEY BEFORE YOU GO, I PROMISE I’M NOT ENTIRELY USELESS OKAY SO LEMME JUST DROP SOME OF THE RANDOM HISTORY TRIVIA IK FOR YA THAT I CAN THINK OF OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD NOW MMK~~~

▪It has been 14 years since Vocaloids initial release. (I actually dont know that off the top of my head, I just ended up skimming that while searching for the articles :o)

▪It has been 18 years since development began. (I didn’t know this either, it just occured to me while fact checking some things lol) From the Wiki timeline I shared, “2000: Kenmochi Hideki began the first developments with a team at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.”

▪The first vocaloids were actually English language vocaloids, contrary to what some may believe. Additionally, you should also know, if you don’t already, that Hatsune Miku wasn’t the first Japanese vocaloid either. Meiko was the first female Japanese language vocaloid to be released, and Kaito came next.

▪Before it was decided that the software would be called “Vocaloid” the entire project was codenamed “Daisy,” as reference to the name of the very first song ever sung by a computer in voice-synth history. The songs name was “Daisy Bell” and you can hear it, plus learn a little bit more about it, at this link here~🔹Special bonus, check out this wonderful duet between the original Vocoder (the voice of the original software has been saved and is now useable in the modern day thanks to another software called Chipspeech!) and Cyber Diva! its like listening to Grandfather and Grandaughter sing together haha~

🔹SPECIAL KAITO FACT THATS NOT VERY MAJOR TO ANYTHING but before his name was Kaito, he was called “Taro” (which is the equivalent of a name like “John Smith” in Japanese lol)

▪The very first known use of vocaloid ever was in this song here.Vocaloids Kaito and Meiko were used in this before they had ever been released or announced (so presumably, Kaito was still called “Taro” at this time ww)

▪The first vocaloids did not have characters and were never intended to. This includes Kaito & Meiko. Their original boxart was never meant to be a depiction of them as characters, it was probably just meant to basically advertise the gender of the vocals by depicting a male and female on either package lol.

▪It was not until Crypton began their own “Character Voice” project and started releasing their vocaloids, beginning with the release of Hatsune Miku in 2007, that the idea of creating characters for Vocaloids had really become a thing. If you don’t know already, Crypton Future Media is the company who developed Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin & Len, and Megurine Luka. (They also handle Meiko & Kaito these days and developed their V3 updates, V1 being originally developed by Yamaha themselves.)　

aaannnd I feel like the rest of is sort of just, well, history at that point. (: from then on, Vocaloid grew into what it is today, yenno? our beloved singing robot/anime characters and all that good stuff xDD

but for a better more detailed history of this stuff, I do recommend referring to the links I provided. Also!! on the wiki you can even learn about the history for each individual vocaloid themselves. Including neat little facts about their development and everything! it’s voca-history inception haha :D

I hope this information was useful and/or interesting for you~ despite it being kind of messily organized and all that bc i’m just no good at actually making anything i write organizable xD i just dump all my thoughts at once pffft.

but ummm yeah :D i hope you have a lovely and more vocaloid-informed day~ ig idk heheh💕