8:23 Yes! There have been live concerts for quite a long time now. I finally got to see her for the first time in October last year during the Miku Expo Europe tour. She’s either projected on a “hologram” screen or on a regular screen like at the Ado concert. The Vocaloid performers are always accompanied by a live band, and while you’re not coming to see an actual person, you get to see the characters do fancy motion captured choreography while singing as well as hang out with other fans.
Thinking about your reaction and, kind of the confusion you are having about the concept of Hatsune Miku and the VOCALOIDS, i came to realize that Miku is actually the opposite of AI generated content! It is not about cutting out the people and their talent that allows forms of expression to happen, but rather to include people that would like to delve there but might not have musical experience, resources or formation. Miku has come to become an avatar that represents anyone that makes music using her voice, and what makes it fantastic and kind of a futuristic concept is that it welcomes any kind of proposal. It's like, a creative commons artist. And yes, there are several VOCALOID artists out there
Miku songs that will probably garner you the most reaction views Rolling Girl World is Mine Unknown Mother Goose Hyper Reality Show The Vampire Lucky Orb Ten Thousand Stars and many more :) ... also the live vids hit different and are just way better to react to because you get to see her sing/dance in combination with crowd interaction
There is a point here. The voice is created from voice bank samples taken from a real person. The songs and music are composed by real songwriters (most of them are musicians by education). So it is not created by a computer, it is created by a person with the help of a music synthesizer and a voice synthesizer. It just gives the songwriter the opportunity to not depend on performers, labels and finances.
This song is by livetune and the autotuney sound is one of the signature sounds of his miku, each vocaloid producer has their own style and sound, some lean more on the robotic sound of vocaloid while others make it sound as realist as possible, one of the producers known for how realistic their miku sounds is mitchie m, he worked on the ado and miku duet
Vocaloid is a music creation program. The voicebanks are provided by real people, and a persona was created for each voicebank. Miku is by far the most popular (theres 6. Meiko, kaito, miku, rin, ren, luka). You can basically make any kind if music you want since the user controls everything. There are live concerts where humans play all the instruments and a hologram/video is used for the various vocaloids. And regarding your comments about the produced vocals, there are many many people who have made it big by covering vocaloid songs. Such as Reol and Wagakki Band. I would recommend checking out Senbonzakura next, both the original and Wagakki Bands version.
To clarify: there are not 6 vocaloids😅, there are like hundreds, those six are just grouped together cause they're owned by the same company and they were all very influential in the early days of vocaloid
Ado made it big by covering Vocaloid ;) Even her original songs are just written for her by Vocaloid composers. Mostly. Not entirely but mostly. Ikura of Yoasobi is no different than Ado. Except Ayase is part of the group and writes all the songs. But he's a Vocaloid producer. Even Babymetal is a little bit Vocaloid. Yuyoyuppe is a Vocaloid producer and he wrote a ton of Babymetal songs. Monochrome and Believing sound very Vocaloid.
Something I’d like to add to the other comments is that since Miku is just a synthesizer, she can sound really different depending on which artist is using it and what style they’re going for. Livetune has more of an autotune vibe to their songs, while MitchieM (the person who tuned Miku in the Ado song) is well known for a more realistic tuning style! Many artists have their signature style so you can tell their songs apart from others. I recommend checking out more Vocaloid producers and hopefully other voice banks (characters). There are actually more than 90 different ones despite only Miku and the other Crypton vocaloids getting most the recognition. ❤
the way Hatsune Miku's vocals are produced are with a vocal synthesizer program named VOCALOID, the program functions like a MIDI keyboard where you can enter notes, add lyrics and a specific "Voicebank" sings those lyrics out to you, these voicebanks are libraries of recordings done by real people who have done this will full consent, those samples are then sold under the names and appearences of characters to make them more marketable, the vocals do not come out perfecly autotuned or magically done, you have to manually adjust many different parameters to achieve the result you want, these programs are avalible to anyone and allow them to edit the voice however they want, meaning two people can use the same voice but it can sound completely different. ( for example, SLoWMoTIoN by Pinocchio-P Featuring Hatsune Miku, and Tale of The Deep-Sea Lilly by n-buna also Featuring Hatsune Miku, the vocals do not sound at all similar) all of these songs are made by real people, they just use these digital voices as a vessel for their music to be heard. Hatsune Miku isn't a real person, however the people behind her all are.
Here's Hansune Miku's full concert, fresh from London th-cam.com/video/OpZx8KvTt1k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jwugaJruQD4uPmgI Who cares if Hatsune Miku is real or not, seeing that many people all together, vibing, not a care in the world...
To people like me and you, Hatsune Miku and Vocaloids is a musical curiosity, but it's a way of life to their fans. Hatsune Miku's holographic live shows are something ro behold. They sell out huge arenas and the audience participation is off the charts. They use actual musicians during the live shows, which is a huge plus. The Wagakki Band did a great cover of the Vocaloid song "Senbonzakura". I'm surprised you haven't seen it, as it has the shakuhachi flute playing throughout.
Vocaloid is kinda like other instrument synthesizer but for Voice, Imagine you have an idea, have a song that you write, but can't find people to sing this, this where she and other voice bank came in. So many talented producer that are nobody before become recognize because of her came in, be so cover artist too (such as Ado). That's why so many respect in Miku because she is the first batch that path a way for many artist in the industry. And sound/tone of her can tune in difference way too, If you want to hear and way more natural tone I suggest "I'm Glad You're Evil Too" and "Tonchinkan Feast" By PinocchioP
the best way to describe vocaloid (i think) would be that its similar to how a piano vst plugin compares to an actual piano. its a program you can use to make vocals by drawing notes and inputting lyrics.
Both Asa the bassist and Machiya the guitarist from Wagakki Band had/have separate careers as Vocaloid producers from before the band started; their first album 'Vocalo Zanmai' in 2014 was made up entirely from re-arrangements of Vocaloid songs with Yuko performing stuff that's really tricky to sing as an actual human. Half of the twelve tracks from that album had Hatsune Miku as the original vocal synthesizer, Senbonzakura is the most famous of those. They did a follow up 'Vocalo Zanmai 2' for their 6th album in 2022. It's better to think of Vocaloid as a sample based synth instrument, using Japanese phonics to create words & phrases which you pitch shift accordingly, with Miku being the most popular of the core original voicing options and who is based off vocal samples from voice actress Saki Fujita. Writers and arrangers frequently do things that ignore the limits of a regular voice, be it higher than usual pitch ranges or extended sequences that would challenge anyone's breath control/stamina. It's like when you ignore the recommended range of instruments when orchestrating and have an oboe competing with a piccolo flute (for an extreme example), it sounds weird and isn't acoustically possible but it can have a weird artificial charm to the sound.
Hatsune Miku is just a virtual singer with vocaloid engine. It is a convenient tool as a vocal part of DTM with a visual representation. I believe it helps many musicians who don't sing or can't deal with humans to publish their songs. However, there was a moment of incarnation when people started making songs specifically for it/her. Her character has been developing as more songs for her are made. Miku can sing any song but not every song is for Miku to sing. I imagine 16 -17 yo Ado might reflect herself into Miku.
Vocaloid is like a word processor for creating vocals. It’s based on a technology developed years ago by Toshiba. It provides a library of synthetic phonemes that the user strings together to create words, similar to the way one uses a word processor to string together letters to create printed words, sentences, and paragraphs. I think its popularity is due to the artificial cheeriness and optimistic tone of the vocals, reflects the increasing isolation and misery felt by people in Japan and other developed countries. Yes, vocaloid concerts, with an animated performer “on stage,” for some reason. Wikipedia will tell you much more.
Hatsune Miku was recorded by the Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. She is Ymir in Attack on Titan and the main character in My Deer Friend Nokotan. Koshi. There are over 100,000 Hatsune Miku songs. Anyone can use her voice there are no restrictions. There is almost every different kind of song. Every kind. I prefer Megurine Luka over Hatsune Miku. But Miku does have more great songs. Nobody uses Luka anymore. Hand in Hand would not be in my top 1000 Vocaloid songs. You should listen to Aishite by Kikuo or God-ish by PinocchioP. Ado covered both of those. My favorite Luka song is either Luka Luka Night Fever or Double Lariat. Luka Luka Night Fever is 14 years old and still a popular karaoke song in Japan.
I don't normally listen to vocaloid music, however, I did find its ability to do humanly impossible things interesting. Here is a 12 year old song called "The disappearance of Hatsune Miku" where "she" sings/raps faster than Eminem with some thought provoking lyrics: th-cam.com/video/5qkTpJAhywg/w-d-xo.html I think vocaloid software is mostly being replaced by newer AI programs that sound more human, here is a AI voice doing Alone by BAND-MAID: th-cam.com/video/alWZGpDcJ8U/w-d-xo.html
There are many live concerts with a live band and miku as a hologram. they started in 2009 there is a 5:30 video called "Hatsune miku live evolution(2009/2023)" which i can highly recommend to get the idea how it works and how it improved
If you want to learn more about Hatsune Miku, watch the video “This is Hatsune Miku”. As for Vocaloid music, that’s a whole other rabbit hole, so many talented producers such as Deco, Mitchie M, wowaka, PinnochioP to name a few
Cool video and thank you for your honest review! To answer your curiosity, allow me to share some information even though I'm weeks late. 04:24 Correct. It is a program, more specifically, a voice synthesizer program. The program name used for the song "Hand in Hand" composed by livetune is VOCALOID, developed by Yamaha. Hatsune Miku on the other hand is a voicebank library developed by Crypton Future Media Inc., which was first released on August 31, 2007 for the VOCALOID2 engine. Her voice is provided by voice actress, Ms. Saki Fujita during the development. She is entirely a singer of her own, not an edited vocals of a real artist and can be used by people to sing their songs which of course requires skill and knowledge to be able to tune her and make her sing well. Someone in the comments already made an explanation of the program and voicebanks in detail. But there's an exception to that as musicians or what we call them as "producers" or "Vocalo-P" has their own signature tuning styles such as sasakure_uk who intentionally makes Miku sound robotic and Mitchie M who strive to make Miku sound realistic. Also, as aforementioned, using the program requires skills and knowledge and NOT just simply generated like GenAI programs. Here's a sample cover to show you what the program looks like in action: th-cam.com/video/hsYy9Lvwxe0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=58BsLueACEcKexM8 05:20 Correct. Hatsune Miku is only the voice for a song. The real artists here are the producers who composes the music and lyrics for Miku or any virtual singers and tunes them to sing that we mostly give uttermost respect and importance. We adore Miku in many forms of entertainment but of course, the musicians deserves to be highly recognized and credited properly. 08:39 Yes, Hatsune Miku has concerts every year. Not only her but several virtual singers too and it even extended to her own mobile game, "ProjectSEKAI: Colorful Stage feat. Hatsune Miku" where the game characters voiced by real singers are included in a separate concert. Her biggest concert every year is Magical Mirai and Snow Miku while Miku Expo is the international one. How it works is having a motion-captured, choreographed performance and then slap it to Miku and then her holographic image is projected through a glass screen accompanied by real musicians onstage, left and right. Those musicians even have a segment where they are introduced and perform a very short solo halfway through the concert. The music video you just watched right now is exactly how a Magical Mirai stage look, a large and wide screen for the projection with an additional monitor screens on top. But here's an real look to it: th-cam.com/video/yLIhkKrVRt8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=gHJ7Wnj5FxdGHXkQ There are thousands producers and thousands of Hatsune Miku or any other virtual singer songs that might interest you covering different genre and subjects such as about life, friendships, death, suicide, sexual, gore, fantasy, love, etc. Each of them focuses on a certain style of music and tuning but some can compose on various subjects. Allow me to suggest few ones: • Kamino Manimani (At God's Mercy) - rerulili feat. Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, GUMI (a mythology song but the message applies to the real world) • Blessing - halyosy feat. Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, Megurine Luka, Meiko, Kaito (a birthday song filled with motivational messages) • News39 - Mitchie M feat. Hatsune Miku (a song telling a news report isn't always just about bad news) • Saihate (The Farthest Ends) - Kobayashi Onyx feat. Hatsune Miku (a melancholic song about someone accepting the death of their love one) • Aka Pen Onegai Shimasu (Please Give Me a Red Pen) - Powapowa-P (also known as Siinamota) feat. Hatsune Miku (this song implies depression and suicide and was uploaded exactly at the same day the producer lost his life. • Reboot - Jimmythumb-P (also known as OneRoom) feat. Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, Samune Zimi (a tragic friendship song but has a happy ending) • Rolling Girl - wowaka (RIP) feat. Hatsune Miku (the message is vague but interpretations suggests about constantly failing or being bullied until the person commited suicide) Thank you for your time doing a little research by the way! A lot people after the Fortnite collaboration just genuinely hates Miku and doesn't bother to know about her, assuming fans are simping over a fictional singer when the fandom has men, women, boys and girls of all ages. Actually, many illustrators, singers and musicians had a successful career because of her and had collaborated with so many companies and artists like Lady Gaga and Set It Off. Hatsune Miku became a huge part of the internet and culture. End of me yapping.
Its the same as every other Music just that the voice is also an instrument with a character behind it because we need something to connect to a voice. Hatsune Miku wasnt the first vocaloid there were a lot before but they werent popular, Miku design was so unique that she instantly popped off there were tons of fanart on release on aug 31 2007
hatsune miku is the "face" of the music but yeah you are correct its producers behind the scenes that do all the work and they do get decent followings in their own rights, some popular vocaloid producers have gone into more main stream jpop music for example Ayase from YOASOBI started out as a vocaloid producer and still does release vocaloid songs from time to time. there are also producers who are successful and well known as vocaloid producers, like PinnochioP, Deco*27 and Wowaka. Deco*27 for example released a new song last november that has 20M views on their channel already.
Miku is a Vocaloid owned by Crypton Future Media. Vocaloid is a vocal synth software which uses phonemes recorded from real vocal artists to allow producers to create songs without the aid of a live singer. "Cryptonloids" is used to refer to other Vocaloids owned by Crypton, which includes Megurine Luka, Rin and Len Kagamine, Kaito, and Meiko, each of which has their own vocal qualities. Popular non Cryptonloids include Gumi, Kasane Teto, IA, and Gakupo. There are seriously hundreds. Every artist who uses Vocaloid has their own music style and tuning for the voices. For example Mitchie M is known for poppy upbeat songs, but with a tuning that makes Miku sound almost like a real singer, such as in the song you saw with Ado, Sakura. His best-known songs are Freely Tomorrow, and Age Age Again. KZ/Livetune tends to have the most autotune sounding tuning such as in the song you just listened to, Hand in Hand, though I prefer Last Night, Good Night (look up the Magical Mirai 2013 video! I get tears every time it's so beautiful.) Other recommended artists are Hachi, Wowaka, Neru, Giga, Iroha, Doriko, Utsu-P, DECO*27, Kikuo, and Emon-tes. There is an entire worldwide community built around Vocaloid with thousands of producers and millions of fans. There are concerts in Japan, one yearly huge event called Magical Mirai, and a touring concert every other year called Miku Expo.
Hatsune Miku was on world tour in 2024. Singing as a video projection with a live band. With the introduction of Yamaha's vocaloid and especially Miku's voice, a new musical culture was created in Japan. Most of Ado's producers emerged from that scene, but also Yoasobi's Ayase. And of course, Ado's career itself began with her uploading covers of vocaloid songs from her closet, and she continues to do so even as a professional. So, there's this other rabbit hole of Miku being used by songwriters and producers to push the boundaries of musical possibility. Consider listening to songs featuring Miku, e.g., by PinocchioP, Syudou, Ayase ... or the insanities (literally) that Kikuo creates. Lots of fun would be, of course, comparing vocaloid original productions with Ado's covers. There's lots of material in her own youtube playlist "Utaimashita" 歌いました; consider starting with "Godish" or with "Aishite, aishite, aishite".
Hatsune Miku is just another step on the road to total control of the product. Where the programmers behind the performance are interchangeable, so we get closer and closer to our AI Overlords. (This is tongue in cheek for those who don't know me) Saying that, however there is are a few grains of truth in my statement. Right now, without the "Human" injection, a true AI production, wouldn't/doesn't sound right. One of the ideas behind the Vocaloid is to help create a true sentient AI.
I would recommend PinnocioP and Deco27 if you want to listen to more Miku's song especially the hits. They're both the most popular Vocaloid producers right now and also my favorite
You should react to "Greatest show on Earth" by utsu-p they use multiple different tunes of miku's voice and you'll find the lyrics pretty interesting i think PS: there are 2 versions on youtube but only the video from 5 years ago has lyrics
i think a lot of time the person who sing take all the notoriety and the composers and the songwriters creating the song don't have any of it. Here on the contrary they are the peoples that have the name attributed to the songs they write , compose and produce. It's also a good thing, i don't understand how peoples can be mad about that. also that you like it or not it s a question of personal taste anyone mad at you for that is stupid.
For something different I'd suggest trying some less electronic Vocaloid music, like rock (try "Kire Carry On" or "Separate" by Police Picadilly, love their breathy vocal tuning), metal (basically anything Utsu-P, like "Not Photogenic") or even jazz. It's not really a problem in and of itself, but a lot of "outsiders" overly associate Vocaloid with EDM and hyperpop. And yes, there are live performances. Well, the band is live lol. Look up "Magical Mirai".
With autotune we’re turning humans into vocaloids so there’s not much difference lol. It’s also a bit like any music that uses samples for drums and synths - they were sampled originally and so the skill of replicating the sound is absent. It raised the same critics back before EDM was called EDM in the 80’s and 90’s. I would say that AI generated vocals are a bigger issue these days.
th-cam.com/video/Jt_8Ek2tiLA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vLmmj-ljxP63L2EY - Here's an example of how a human can merge with a vocaloid into one whole. The future is ever closer. ))
8:23 Yes! There have been live concerts for quite a long time now. I finally got to see her for the first time in October last year during the Miku Expo Europe tour. She’s either projected on a “hologram” screen or on a regular screen like at the Ado concert. The Vocaloid performers are always accompanied by a live band, and while you’re not coming to see an actual person, you get to see the characters do fancy motion captured choreography while singing as well as hang out with other fans.
Thinking about your reaction and, kind of the confusion you are having about the concept of Hatsune Miku and the VOCALOIDS, i came to realize that Miku is actually the opposite of AI generated content! It is not about cutting out the people and their talent that allows forms of expression to happen, but rather to include people that would like to delve there but might not have musical experience, resources or formation.
Miku has come to become an avatar that represents anyone that makes music using her voice, and what makes it fantastic and kind of a futuristic concept is that it welcomes any kind of proposal. It's like, a creative commons artist.
And yes, there are several VOCALOID artists out there
Thank for this! I like this outlook and how you explained it.
Miku songs that will probably garner you the most reaction views
Rolling Girl
World is Mine
Unknown Mother Goose
Hyper Reality Show
The Vampire
Lucky Orb
Ten Thousand Stars
and many more :) ... also the live vids hit different and are just way better to react to because you get to see her sing/dance in combination with crowd interaction
There is a point here. The voice is created from voice bank samples taken from a real person. The songs and music are composed by real songwriters (most of them are musicians by education). So it is not created by a computer, it is created by a person with the help of a music synthesizer and a voice synthesizer.
It just gives the songwriter the opportunity to not depend on performers, labels and finances.
This song is by livetune and the autotuney sound is one of the signature sounds of his miku, each vocaloid producer has their own style and sound, some lean more on the robotic sound of vocaloid while others make it sound as realist as possible, one of the producers known for how realistic their miku sounds is mitchie m, he worked on the ado and miku duet
Vocaloid is a music creation program. The voicebanks are provided by real people, and a persona was created for each voicebank. Miku is by far the most popular (theres 6. Meiko, kaito, miku, rin, ren, luka). You can basically make any kind if music you want since the user controls everything. There are live concerts where humans play all the instruments and a hologram/video is used for the various vocaloids. And regarding your comments about the produced vocals, there are many many people who have made it big by covering vocaloid songs. Such as Reol and Wagakki Band. I would recommend checking out Senbonzakura next, both the original and Wagakki Bands version.
To clarify: there are not 6 vocaloids😅, there are like hundreds, those six are just grouped together cause they're owned by the same company and they were all very influential in the early days of vocaloid
Ado made it big by covering Vocaloid ;) Even her original songs are just written for her by Vocaloid composers. Mostly. Not entirely but mostly.
Ikura of Yoasobi is no different than Ado. Except Ayase is part of the group and writes all the songs. But he's a Vocaloid producer.
Even Babymetal is a little bit Vocaloid. Yuyoyuppe is a Vocaloid producer and he wrote a ton of Babymetal songs. Monochrome and Believing sound very Vocaloid.
Something I’d like to add to the other comments is that since Miku is just a synthesizer, she can sound really different depending on which artist is using it and what style they’re going for. Livetune has more of an autotune vibe to their songs, while MitchieM (the person who tuned Miku in the Ado song) is well known for a more realistic tuning style!
Many artists have their signature style so you can tell their songs apart from others. I recommend checking out more Vocaloid producers and hopefully other voice banks (characters). There are actually more than 90 different ones despite only Miku and the other Crypton vocaloids getting most the recognition. ❤
the way Hatsune Miku's vocals are produced are with a vocal synthesizer program named VOCALOID, the program functions like a MIDI keyboard where you can enter notes, add lyrics and a specific "Voicebank" sings those lyrics out to you, these voicebanks are libraries of recordings done by real people who have done this will full consent, those samples are then sold under the names and appearences of characters to make them more marketable, the vocals do not come out perfecly autotuned or magically done, you have to manually adjust many different parameters to achieve the result you want, these programs are avalible to anyone and allow them to edit the voice however they want, meaning two people can use the same voice but it can sound completely different.
( for example, SLoWMoTIoN by Pinocchio-P Featuring Hatsune Miku, and Tale of The Deep-Sea Lilly by n-buna also Featuring Hatsune Miku, the vocals do not sound at all similar)
all of these songs are made by real people, they just use these digital voices as a vessel for their music to be heard.
Hatsune Miku isn't a real person, however the people behind her all are.
Here's Hansune Miku's full concert, fresh from London th-cam.com/video/OpZx8KvTt1k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jwugaJruQD4uPmgI Who cares if Hatsune Miku is real or not, seeing that many people all together, vibing, not a care in the world...
To people like me and you, Hatsune Miku and Vocaloids is a musical curiosity, but it's a way of life to their fans.
Hatsune Miku's holographic live shows are something ro behold. They sell out huge arenas and the audience participation is off the charts. They use actual musicians during the live shows, which is a huge plus. The Wagakki Band did a great cover of the Vocaloid song "Senbonzakura". I'm surprised you haven't seen it, as it has the shakuhachi flute playing throughout.
Vocaloid is kinda like other instrument synthesizer but for Voice, Imagine you have an idea, have a song that you write, but can't find people to sing this, this where she and other voice bank came in. So many talented producer that are nobody before become recognize because of her came in, be so cover artist too (such as Ado). That's why so many respect in Miku because she is the first batch that path a way for many artist in the industry.
And sound/tone of her can tune in difference way too, If you want to hear and way more natural tone I suggest
"I'm Glad You're Evil Too" and "Tonchinkan Feast" By PinocchioP
the best way to describe vocaloid (i think) would be that its similar to how a piano vst plugin compares to an actual piano. its a program you can use to make vocals by drawing notes and inputting lyrics.
Both Asa the bassist and Machiya the guitarist from Wagakki Band had/have separate careers as Vocaloid producers from before the band started; their first album 'Vocalo Zanmai' in 2014 was made up entirely from re-arrangements of Vocaloid songs with Yuko performing stuff that's really tricky to sing as an actual human. Half of the twelve tracks from that album had Hatsune Miku as the original vocal synthesizer, Senbonzakura is the most famous of those. They did a follow up 'Vocalo Zanmai 2' for their 6th album in 2022.
It's better to think of Vocaloid as a sample based synth instrument, using Japanese phonics to create words & phrases which you pitch shift accordingly, with Miku being the most popular of the core original voicing options and who is based off vocal samples from voice actress Saki Fujita.
Writers and arrangers frequently do things that ignore the limits of a regular voice, be it higher than usual pitch ranges or extended sequences that would challenge anyone's breath control/stamina. It's like when you ignore the recommended range of instruments when orchestrating and have an oboe competing with a piccolo flute (for an extreme example), it sounds weird and isn't acoustically possible but it can have a weird artificial charm to the sound.
Many people don't know how much Vocaloid has changed Japanese music and what it has influenced.
Hatsune Miku is just a virtual singer with vocaloid engine. It is a convenient tool as a vocal part of DTM with a visual representation. I believe it helps many musicians who don't sing or can't deal with humans to publish their songs. However, there was a moment of incarnation when people started making songs specifically for it/her. Her character has been developing as more songs for her are made. Miku can sing any song but not every song is for Miku to sing. I imagine 16 -17 yo Ado might reflect herself into Miku.
Vocaloid is like a word processor for creating vocals. It’s based on a technology developed years ago by Toshiba. It provides a library of synthetic phonemes that the user strings together to create words, similar to the way one uses a word processor to string together letters to create printed words, sentences, and paragraphs.
I think its popularity is due to the artificial cheeriness and optimistic tone of the vocals, reflects the increasing isolation and misery felt by people in Japan and other developed countries.
Yes, vocaloid concerts, with an animated performer “on stage,” for some reason.
Wikipedia will tell you much more.
Hatsune Miku was recorded by the Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. She is Ymir in Attack on Titan and the main character in My Deer Friend Nokotan. Koshi. There are over 100,000 Hatsune Miku songs. Anyone can use her voice there are no restrictions. There is almost every different kind of song. Every kind. I prefer Megurine Luka over Hatsune Miku. But Miku does have more great songs. Nobody uses Luka anymore. Hand in Hand would not be in my top 1000 Vocaloid songs. You should listen to Aishite by Kikuo or God-ish by PinocchioP. Ado covered both of those. My favorite Luka song is either Luka Luka Night Fever or Double Lariat. Luka Luka Night Fever is 14 years old and still a popular karaoke song in Japan.
I don't normally listen to vocaloid music, however, I did find its ability to do humanly impossible things interesting. Here is a 12 year old song called "The disappearance of Hatsune Miku" where "she" sings/raps faster than Eminem with some thought provoking lyrics:
th-cam.com/video/5qkTpJAhywg/w-d-xo.html
I think vocaloid software is mostly being replaced by newer AI programs that sound more human, here is a AI voice doing Alone by BAND-MAID:
th-cam.com/video/alWZGpDcJ8U/w-d-xo.html
There are many live concerts with a live band and miku as a hologram. they started in 2009
there is a 5:30 video called "Hatsune miku live evolution(2009/2023)" which i can highly recommend to get the idea how it works and how it improved
If you want to learn more about Hatsune Miku, watch the video “This is Hatsune Miku”. As for Vocaloid music, that’s a whole other rabbit hole, so many talented producers such as Deco, Mitchie M, wowaka, PinnochioP to name a few
Cool video and thank you for your honest review! To answer your curiosity, allow me to share some information even though I'm weeks late.
04:24 Correct. It is a program, more specifically, a voice synthesizer program. The program name used for the song "Hand in Hand" composed by livetune is VOCALOID, developed by Yamaha. Hatsune Miku on the other hand is a voicebank library developed by Crypton Future Media Inc., which was first released on August 31, 2007 for the VOCALOID2 engine. Her voice is provided by voice actress, Ms. Saki Fujita during the development. She is entirely a singer of her own, not an edited vocals of a real artist and can be used by people to sing their songs which of course requires skill and knowledge to be able to tune her and make her sing well. Someone in the comments already made an explanation of the program and voicebanks in detail. But there's an exception to that as musicians or what we call them as "producers" or "Vocalo-P" has their own signature tuning styles such as sasakure_uk who intentionally makes Miku sound robotic and Mitchie M who strive to make Miku sound realistic. Also, as aforementioned, using the program requires skills and knowledge and NOT just simply generated like GenAI programs. Here's a sample cover to show you what the program looks like in action:
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05:20 Correct. Hatsune Miku is only the voice for a song. The real artists here are the producers who composes the music and lyrics for Miku or any virtual singers and tunes them to sing that we mostly give uttermost respect and importance. We adore Miku in many forms of entertainment but of course, the musicians deserves to be highly recognized and credited properly.
08:39 Yes, Hatsune Miku has concerts every year. Not only her but several virtual singers too and it even extended to her own mobile game, "ProjectSEKAI: Colorful Stage feat. Hatsune Miku" where the game characters voiced by real singers are included in a separate concert. Her biggest concert every year is Magical Mirai and Snow Miku while Miku Expo is the international one. How it works is having a motion-captured, choreographed performance and then slap it to Miku and then her holographic image is projected through a glass screen accompanied by real musicians onstage, left and right. Those musicians even have a segment where they are introduced and perform a very short solo halfway through the concert. The music video you just watched right now is exactly how a Magical Mirai stage look, a large and wide screen for the projection with an additional monitor screens on top. But here's an real look to it:
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There are thousands producers and thousands of Hatsune Miku or any other virtual singer songs that might interest you covering different genre and subjects such as about life, friendships, death, suicide, sexual, gore, fantasy, love, etc. Each of them focuses on a certain style of music and tuning but some can compose on various subjects. Allow me to suggest few ones:
• Kamino Manimani (At God's Mercy) - rerulili feat. Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, GUMI (a mythology song but the message applies to the real world)
• Blessing - halyosy feat. Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, Megurine Luka, Meiko, Kaito (a birthday song filled with motivational messages)
• News39 - Mitchie M feat. Hatsune Miku (a song telling a news report isn't always just about bad news)
• Saihate (The Farthest Ends) - Kobayashi Onyx feat. Hatsune Miku (a melancholic song about someone accepting the death of their love one)
• Aka Pen Onegai Shimasu (Please Give Me a Red Pen) - Powapowa-P (also known as Siinamota) feat. Hatsune Miku (this song implies depression and suicide and was uploaded exactly at the same day the producer lost his life.
• Reboot - Jimmythumb-P (also known as OneRoom) feat. Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, Samune Zimi (a tragic friendship song but has a happy ending)
• Rolling Girl - wowaka (RIP) feat. Hatsune Miku (the message is vague but interpretations suggests about constantly failing or being bullied until the person commited suicide)
Thank you for your time doing a little research by the way! A lot people after the Fortnite collaboration just genuinely hates Miku and doesn't bother to know about her, assuming fans are simping over a fictional singer when the fandom has men, women, boys and girls of all ages. Actually, many illustrators, singers and musicians had a successful career because of her and had collaborated with so many companies and artists like Lady Gaga and Set It Off. Hatsune Miku became a huge part of the internet and culture. End of me yapping.
Its the same as every other Music just that the voice is also an instrument with a character behind it because we need something to connect to a voice.
Hatsune Miku wasnt the first vocaloid there were a lot before but they werent popular, Miku design was so unique that she instantly popped off there were tons of fanart on release on aug 31 2007
hatsune miku is the "face" of the music but yeah you are correct its producers behind the scenes that do all the work and they do get decent followings in their own rights, some popular vocaloid producers have gone into more main stream jpop music for example Ayase from YOASOBI started out as a vocaloid producer and still does release vocaloid songs from time to time. there are also producers who are successful and well known as vocaloid producers, like PinnochioP, Deco*27 and Wowaka. Deco*27 for example released a new song last november that has 20M views on their channel already.
Miku is a Vocaloid owned by Crypton Future Media. Vocaloid is a vocal synth software which uses phonemes recorded from real vocal artists to allow producers to create songs without the aid of a live singer. "Cryptonloids" is used to refer to other Vocaloids owned by Crypton, which includes Megurine Luka, Rin and Len Kagamine, Kaito, and Meiko, each of which has their own vocal qualities. Popular non Cryptonloids include Gumi, Kasane Teto, IA, and Gakupo. There are seriously hundreds.
Every artist who uses Vocaloid has their own music style and tuning for the voices. For example Mitchie M is known for poppy upbeat songs, but with a tuning that makes Miku sound almost like a real singer, such as in the song you saw with Ado, Sakura. His best-known songs are Freely Tomorrow, and Age Age Again. KZ/Livetune tends to have the most autotune sounding tuning such as in the song you just listened to, Hand in Hand, though I prefer Last Night, Good Night (look up the Magical Mirai 2013 video! I get tears every time it's so beautiful.) Other recommended artists are Hachi, Wowaka, Neru, Giga, Iroha, Doriko, Utsu-P, DECO*27, Kikuo, and Emon-tes.
There is an entire worldwide community built around Vocaloid with thousands of producers and millions of fans. There are concerts in Japan, one yearly huge event called Magical Mirai, and a touring concert every other year called Miku Expo.
This may be the future of music. It's already here, at least in Japan. Not sure how I feel about it but it's impressive, for sure.
Hatsune Miku was on world tour in 2024. Singing as a video projection with a live band.
With the introduction of Yamaha's vocaloid and especially Miku's voice, a new musical culture was created in Japan. Most of Ado's producers emerged from that scene, but also Yoasobi's Ayase. And of course, Ado's career itself began with her uploading covers of vocaloid songs from her closet, and she continues to do so even as a professional.
So, there's this other rabbit hole of Miku being used by songwriters and producers to push the boundaries of musical possibility. Consider listening to songs featuring Miku, e.g., by PinocchioP, Syudou, Ayase ... or the insanities (literally) that Kikuo creates.
Lots of fun would be, of course, comparing vocaloid original productions with Ado's covers. There's lots of material in her own youtube playlist "Utaimashita" 歌いました; consider starting with "Godish" or with "Aishite, aishite, aishite".
You're missing out not listening to more from 'Hagane.' Their latest song 'Start our journey' is just phenomenal.
She's real you should watch her concert 𝄞
This is one deep hole you're getting into,
Hatsune Miku is just another step on the road to total control of the product. Where the programmers behind the performance are interchangeable, so we get closer and closer to our AI Overlords. (This is tongue in cheek for those who don't know me)
Saying that, however there is are a few grains of truth in my statement. Right now, without the "Human" injection, a true AI production, wouldn't/doesn't sound right. One of the ideas behind the Vocaloid is to help create a true sentient AI.
I would recommend PinnocioP and Deco27 if you want to listen to more Miku's song especially the hits.
They're both the most popular Vocaloid producers right now and also my favorite
You should react to "Greatest show on Earth" by utsu-p they use multiple different tunes of miku's voice and you'll find the lyrics pretty interesting i think
PS: there are 2 versions on youtube but only the video from 5 years ago has lyrics
Are there live concerts? bruh she tours the world,
i think a lot of time the person who sing take all the notoriety and the composers and the songwriters creating the song don't have any of it. Here on the contrary they are the peoples that have the name attributed to the songs they write , compose and produce. It's also a good thing, i don't understand how peoples can be mad about that.
also that you like it or not it s a question of personal taste anyone mad at you for that is stupid.
Few meme song is from vocaloid song like nyan song and ievan polka
Listen to hatsune miku senbonzakura, yes there been live concerts since 2009
For something different I'd suggest trying some less electronic Vocaloid music, like rock (try "Kire Carry On" or "Separate" by Police Picadilly, love their breathy vocal tuning), metal (basically anything Utsu-P, like "Not Photogenic") or even jazz. It's not really a problem in and of itself, but a lot of "outsiders" overly associate Vocaloid with EDM and hyperpop.
And yes, there are live performances. Well, the band is live lol. Look up "Magical Mirai".
With autotune we’re turning humans into vocaloids so there’s not much difference lol. It’s also a bit like any music that uses samples for drums and synths - they were sampled originally and so the skill of replicating the sound is absent. It raised the same critics back before EDM was called EDM in the 80’s and 90’s. I would say that AI generated vocals are a bigger issue these days.
Lorewise Miku Hatsune Miku is an AI the autotune is supposed to make her sound inhuman
Hatsuni Miku live…
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Yes, that’s a live band!
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あなたが視聴した和楽器バンドの千本桜は初音ミクの曲ですよー！
Is it flautist or flutist
th-cam.com/video/Jt_8Ek2tiLA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vLmmj-ljxP63L2EY - Here's an example of how a human can merge with a vocaloid into one whole. The future is ever closer. ))