Pocket Miku: A unique vocal synthesizer from Japan 

I always thought it was a little underwhelming. This is def a step in the right direction as far as a playable Miku voice. Obviously it'll always be better to hand input the midi notes yourself, but this is an exciting option for vocal synths!

There is a great demo by SpiralCaster who was very capable to make the Miku sound very good.

I've been on a hunt for one of these! D: ! Someday when guitar pedal captures are better I would capture it. NeuralDSP Quad Cortex I don't think will be able to due to the pedal's complex nature

Listen to Into the Twilight by Jack White. He's makes great use of said pedal.

@@CHADALAK1 I bought one from Juno Records in the UK years ago for $115 on sale. This was when every place was selling it for a lot more.

Not really, but I get how you feel.

Exactly what I would want to comment. It sounds great.

I feel that way too! Even though, trap beats are kind of old now too haha! Time sure is flying by, huh!

try listening to yameii online or lil 3nvi. they are not hatsune miku but other english vocaloids its actually fire.

Yeah! Generally not a huge fan of vocaloids but this actually is palatable

yes, this is exactly what I was experiencing. I ended up playing every note a bit early in order to get it to line up

My solution: discuss your plans with the software. I'm sure they'd understand.

hey yo wont beleive but there's a couple of vocal synth rpograms that do real time; AlterEgo and Chipspeech. both by Plogue. they work just like that

could add a proximity sensor to the keys

@@kimisaacbuelagala1314 but if you hover your fingers on nearby keys, they'll also be triggered.

yes!! haha, i kept thinking that throughout the whole video lmao :P

that’s what i was thinking too

*lowest growl voice ever* "DEFEATEEEEEEDDDDDD"

Bee and Puppycat :D

Hey! Fellow Bee and Puppy cat fans!!! How weird we gathered here!?

some of us would kill for a toggle able rin len stylophone

I really want Fukase and Oliver so muchh! Oliver especially! Since he voiced Puppycat, I want to experiment with it!

iirc wasn't there a vy1 chip for this?

I would love a gumi one

@@flower7250 omg you read my mind!! i was just about to comment this about oliver and puppycat

🤝

I dont get it.. so to sing anata wa daisuki.. what should he press ?? Vowels are obvious but where are the other letters?

Huh I always wondered what she was saying

@@alaamhmd1158 anata "ga" daisuki anata wa daisuki would mean: you are daisuki, instead of "i love you".

@@muyodosel1658 doesn’t really answer the question lol 😆

I want it too :(

Reminds of of Holland patent public library works

the drums ruin it ngl

yeah that shit was beautiful

Very cool

awesome thanks

oh that's interesting, I've never actually looked into the synth tech behind the songs so I don't know anything about what happens there lol

That's not entirely true. Crypon was always the owner and they chose not to continue working with YAMAHA because they believed that Vocaloid software was too limiting for what they wanted to do. Though of course 3 years later we see that nothing really good has happened...

who really use NT? haha

god i wish they just migrated to synthv but it looks like crypton wanted their own engine for a while and would migrate even if vocaloid didn't fall off

This is a lot of consternation over something that is essentially an extended gimmick

It’s so wild and exiting to think about the birth of a new genre of music that utilizes these products, sounds, and technology in ways we never imagined.

WILL WOOD MEMES??? IN _MY_ RECOMMENDED????

it sounds like if Brian Eno started using Vocaloid

Vocaloid heaven

it sounds like a minion lmao

Had a DX9 I really enjoyed. Wish I had it still .

It's funny because Miku's original design is actually based off of the DX7!

yes pls

Pls ❤

Pocket Luka would be crazy!

i be wanting a pocket oliver for real

@@sockfrogsinsuits what about a pocket of money?

@@M364A that works

Frrr

Did you know that most countries have wonderful synths and hardware gadgets that nobody has ever heard of? Well, that is, except the creator, and their circles of people, of course.

@@JakHart how do you even have friends.

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 pretty bold of you to assume he has friends

it's vocaloid. Nobody ever heard of the synths version of it cause people that actually do make music in the genre use the software version like Vocaloid 5. It used to be even more janky. People had to actually use a game to develop music during the early days of vocaloid. Vocaloid is not exactly a music genre you consume live. Hence negating the need for synths in the first place. Miku being the OG of course, but my fav vocaloid artist is Cepheid.

@@JakHart Japan is special in so many ways and there's no other place in the world like Akihabara. Just because other countries have tinkerers and makers doesn't make Japan any less special

daisychira has a song using mikus voice, its called Heaven's Gate

あいうえお

Consonants aren't vowels with another sound placed in front of them. Consonants are that "another sound". In ka, 'k' is a consonant, 'a' is a vowel, and the unit they form together is called a mora.

Ye, please...

Yess

Through a Fuzz with delay and reverb = awesome

Me to

True not perfect but good enough.

Google Lens can translate printed instructions and booklets

Was going to suggest the same thing, the accuracy is pretty good nowadays

Microsoft Translator app is pretty good too !

If you're using an iPhone on iOS 16, you can just use the regular camera app, point it at the text and press translate.

yameii is voiced by avanna, who is a vocaloid originally released by vocaloid 3. avanna is also used in porter robinson's goodbye to a world if i'm not mistaken

@@achewy7700 thanks for commenting bc I was thinking that too! I'm so glad western artists are getting into vocaloid through avanna :D Also FYI for anyone wondering Yameii is a virtual idol but used vocaloid as the software for their voice

@@achewy7700 He used it in more songs than just Goodbye to A World actually !

@@achewy7700 Speaking of Porter Robinson, he actually has his own Vocaloid now! His name is Po-Uta, and he was just released last week, I think.

Isn't vocaloid itself a synth?

@@utaukappasensei2 Yes, vocaloid is a synth.

They even made a Miku guitar pedal called Miku Stomp (this one was developed by Korg however) and a very rare Vocaloid keytar named VKB-100 in the early 2010s.

Vocaloid itself is a synth, but there are also many products spun off from the initial software

That one kikuo song is a goddamn vibe

@@abyssosque are you talking about aishite aishite aishite? thats the most popular kikou song i can think of

@@abyssosque ALL kikou songs are a 'vibe' #fact

@@abyssosque hole dwelling you mean?

@@pinkmiku12 looked it up its emptiness, emptiness, emptiness of emptiness(kara kara kara no kara)

Yes please!

yeah this has been out FOR AGES (2014 iirc), unfortunately it's really hard to find a "Pocket Miku" without looking to pay 2-3x the original price

Technology is pretty amazing. Synthesizer V is also a vocal synthesis software, but it's the first to use artificial intelligence and has AI based voicebanks. It's also cheaper than Vocaloid,is flexible, accessible, and very easy to use.

while the physical instrument is definitely based on a stylophone, the synthesizer software itself is certainly based on vocaloid

@@duncathan_saltThat said it’s extremely frustrating to watch him tap each note individually, and then pick up the pen, and then tap the next note, like a terrible keyboard. Stylophones have a unique glissando based playing style based on dragging the pen across the keyboard, which is evocative of a human voice even in its original primitive analogue form. Moreover, a traditional stylophone features an analogue master tuning knob on the back, which means you can easily tune to the key of the song and retain the “white key” glissando play style in any key. Based on this review video I have no idea how well this product works as an implementation of vocaloid on a stand alone stylophone based controller. For instance, this issue with certain vowels being out of time: what happens to the vowels when you glissando by dragging the pen from one key to the next is absolutely the main thing about this product, and it’s almost miraculously not featured in this video.

Totally agree with you on that. They definitely work well paired up for killer sounds. 👊🧡👍

Hello omori fan!!!!

woah! is that true!?? if so, that’s really nuts.

Big oof

Here you go: 2. Usage Restrictions You are not permitted to perform the following actions through use of the Software. i. Publication or distribution of content featuring lyrics or other content that is offensive to public order and morals ii. Publication or distribution of content that defames, otherwise harms the reputation of, or in other ways violates the rights of a third party iii. Publication of content including any of the following without permission of the Companies 1. Displays in products and services If “VOCALOID(TM) (this includes descriptions of the same in the Japanese language)”, Hatsune Miku or any items related to these (hereafter, “Protected Displays”) are displayed in the following product or service- related contexts: a. Products and services with any kind of credit displayed, e.g. singer, artist, or instrument names, which also show the Protected Displays b. Products and services that use the Protected Displays in the context of any kind of promotion or advertising such as packaging or promotional materials c. Products and services that use the Protected Displays in any form recognizable by the consumer in contexts such as the opening or end credits of video works 2. Use in commercial karaoke Use in commercial karaoke software, karaoke hardware, karaoke systems that use the Internet, and any other commercial karaoke product, in addition to karaoke services (whether online, offline, or in any other form) 3. Commercial use in contexts such as ringtones for telephones or mobile telephones Commercial use in sounds such as call alerts or warning sounds for telephones (including mobile telephones) or telephony devices (hereafter, collectively “telephony devices”), not including the use of musical ringtones that are sold exclusively as music to be used for entertainment purposes 4. Embedding in devices or other such use as sound effects In addition to the above, use as sound effects for commercial purposes in home electronics, robots, arcade machines such as pachinko machines, in-car devices such as car navigation devices, electronic instruments, computer software including music creation software, computer terminal applications such as smartphone or tablet apps, or in video game software 5. Use in commercial video works Use in commercial video works (not limited to animations, commercial films, or video games) where people or characters appear to be singing or performing 6. Use in commercial CDs and other such products produced by a company Use in CDs, records, cassette tapes, MiniDiscs, hard disks, flash memory, IC memory cards, or any other storage media that has been produced by companies for commercial purposes (hereafter, “commercial CDs and other such products”), regardless of whether the recorded materials have been produced by those companies or provided by a third party

I came here for this xD