Singing Computers

     If you feel like my Vocaloid Descriptions and poor attempts at explanations of Vocaloid history, I would like to recommend a good resource for you. There's a YouTube channel called addictedtoheriones , or AtH, which has good, comprehensive videos on the history of Vocaloid and individual descriptions.      My apologies for this disappointing blog post. I am very busy today.      :(

     (Note: I have realized that, ya know what, I don't have to describe Vocaloids I don't like. So there. Oh, and about Gumi vs Megpoid, Megpoid is her product name and Gumi is her character name. I know, it's confusing, but it it what it is.) Gumi has a lot of different boxarts so I just chose this one. Eh. Gum i Voice donor: Megumi Nakajima Engine: V2 Company: Made and sold by Internet Co. Release date: June 2009 Updates and/or additional voicebanks: V3 update, extends, English voicebank, V4x update Language: Japanese, English Voice type: Slightly “scratchy” high-ranged female voice. Sounds about in her late teens to early twenties. Strengths: Gumi honestly has the best English of the Big 8. She is a professional-quality product, with a lot of different voicebanks (the most of any Vocaloid, in fact), each suited to different genres, to choose from. Weaknesses: Her design is… Hmm. She has a slight Japanese accent. Her English especially has a bit of a “percussive”...

     One of my favorite things to read is called Space Boy. It's a Webtoon, which are hard to explain. Imagine a graphic novel, with a new chapter or "episode" releasing each week, or sometimes multiple times a week, online. That's the basic concept, except the panels are also placed vertically for optimized viewing on phones- although it still works fine on regular computers as well. This particular Webtoon is also becoming a regular graphic novel. Space Boy books 1, 2, and 3 are available to buy on Amazon and other places. I think you can preorder the fourth.      Anyway, once I've explained the concept, I can go on more about Space Boy. The official description is:      "A girl who belongs in a different time. A boy possessed by an emptiness as deep as space. A story about an alien artifact, a mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years."      That's a bit dramatic, but it'll do. It's a sci-fi drama with main ...

     (Note: This felt nice to write. Hio is good Vocaloid.) He is not  Edgy Teen Oliver and you cannot change my mind. I am talking to three specific people here. You know who you are.       YOHIOloid      Voice donor: YOHIO, a professional Swedish singer, 17 years old at time of recording      Engine: V3      Company: Made by VocaTone, sold by PowerFX      Release date: September 10, 2013      Updates and/or additional voicebanks: nope      Language: English, Japanese      Voice type: Mid-range mature male voice      Strengths: Sounds just so amazing and pleasant and smooth, but also has a wide vocal range.      Weaknesses: His Japanese is not preferred by Japanese producers because of its Swedish accent.      Examples: Without Wings , Dream With You , Rolling In the Deep , Sunflowers I...

     I couldn't think of anything to write about, so here's a story about my desk. I promise it'll be interesting.      I have a desk. It looks like this:      You can probably tell that I've had it for a while. And this is after  I took most of the stickers off lol . But anyway, yes, a few years. Five or six? Or seven? I made it with my dad, as a father-daughter project. We made the design, picked out a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood, cut it, screwed it together, sanded it, and then protected it with polyurethane (was that it? I can't remember exactly), because I decided that I liked the natural color of the wood. I colored it with Sharpies, put duct tape on it, taped a piece of acetate on it, decorated it with washi tape, put very nice sparkly stickers on it, doodled on it, wrote on it, put glue on it, used an x-acto knife on it, and did many more things to it. It is a good desk.      However, I grew. The desk is now too ...

(Note: Again, this was hard to write, especially as there is a lot of controversy around them. If you want more intelligent opinions on the Kagamines, AngelEmfrbl's contributions to the comment section on their wiki page should suffice. I think I'll do Gumi next, as I actually like her voice.) Note that this is their V4x boxart, not the original Act 1.      Kagamine Rin/Len      Voice donor: Asami Shimoda, a professional Japanese actress, voiced both of them, although the pitch was almost certainly altered for Len’s samples.      Engine: V2      Company: Made and sold by Crypton Future Media      Release date: December 27, 2007      Updates and/or additional voicebanks: Act 2, three V2 Appends each, V4x update, V4 English      Language: Japanese, English      Voice type: Rin has a pretty high-pitched voice, and so does Len. Len is classified as a female voice ty...

     I am not a gamer. I can say that with complete honesty. One of the games I play is half game, half UN-like roleplay. It's called  NationStates . The second is Beat Saber . The third and last is Minecraft , as you may have gathered from the title. I was going to write a post about Minecraft, but I really couldn't express what I wanted to say properly. I was going for something like the Foreword of the book Block City- How to build incredible worlds in Minecraft , which is an amazing book that features people's amazing Minecraft creations. How amazing?       Air Traffic       Colossal Carving       Dragon Spawn      These are some other majestic builds featured on minecraft.net , which features these kinds of things regularly. I highly encourage you to check out more if you're interested. So, I wanted to write an essay or something... That kinda failed. I think I'll put in instead my favorite quotes f...

     (Note: I know I promised to do the Big 8 first, but their descriptions are actually slightly painful to write. I can't really... appreciate them. They're kind of annoying, honestly. Well, mainly the CV series, and I think it's because people think they're THE BEST Vocaloids EVAH but they really aren't, mainly because they're voice acted. But enough about them! Leon and Lola are awesome, so I'm doing their descriptions this week to take a break from that.) LEON and LOLA      Voice donors: Two anonymous soul singers.      Engine: V1      Company: Made by Yamaha, sold by Zero-G      Release date: January 15, 2004      Updates and/or additional voicebanks: Nope:(      Language: English, although I have seen Leon sing French once.      Voice type: LEON is a tenor with, in my humble opinion at least, awesome falsetto. He has a British accent. LOLA has a de...