Ooone more Meta-note

     This is the last one, I promise.
     Wait, did I say that last time..? Oh well, I guess I'm just like the orchestra conductor in rehearsal who says that we're going to practice this part of the piece 'one more time' and then we'll move on... I literally don't believe my conductor any more when she says that. But anyway.
     To the people who follow my blog, few as you are: I very much appreciate you. Thank you for reading. However, I do have a favor for you. As you may recall from the introduction, one of the original reasons I started this blog was to find other Vocaloid fans, or make them Vocaloid fans. So, maybe once my blog has a bit more content, maybe recommend this blog to people you think might be interested? Or maybe people who might like it for other reasons? I don't know. I guess I could use a few more views...
     On other news, I would like to clarify that my blog updates every Friday and Saturday afternoon. Not very spread out, but it's when I have time. The next post is gonna be Vocaloid Music Recommendations. It was going to be Related Software but then I discovered Synth V and have to do some research. It's a pretty new software so there's not much on it yet, but I have to see some more demos, because the demos I've listened to so far are from a producer who can make even UTAUs sound like humans... But I'm getting ahead of myself.
     Let's get even more ahead of myself! After that, I'll start describing Vocaloids, and maaaaybe do a bit of Vocaloid history as well, although I don't trust myself to write it very well yet. I'll wait.
     Oh and one last note before I go, triphone recordings were added in V3, which I forgot to mention in the Technology section. They made the Vocaloids more realistic, although that hasn't really changed much from V3 to V5.
     Ooh, maybe I should do a description of all the different engines! Okay, gotta go write something else now. Bye!

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