VOCALOID

Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint
research

project

led

by

Kenmochi

Hideki

at

the Pompeu

FabraUniversity in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 2000 (the same team that later founded Voctro
Labs. and originally was not intended to be a full commercial project. Backed by the Yamaha
Corporation, it developed the software into the commercial product "Vocaloid".
Background
Researchers have been trying to get computers to sing for a long time. Most people have seen the
famous sequencein the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odysseywhere HAL the computer,
sings Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two). Perhaps not so many people are aware that the
sequence were inspired by an actual 1961 synthesized performance of the same song on an IBM
mainframe, implemented by a team that included Max Mathewsconsidered the father of
computer musicand John Kelly. In the five decades since that time many researches have
continued working on the technology. But in most cases the resulting voices have sounded
mechanical, and the performances lack feeling. Technologists have dreamed of the day when a
computer could finally sing like a real human singer.
While Yamaha has been working on synthesizer technologies for many years, our efforts to
develop a singing synthesizer only began at about the turn of the millennium. Rather than
building an experimental system that would run on a mainframe and take days to generate a
performance, we focused instead on creating a product that would allow even an unsophisticated
user to generate a singing voice at low cost and play it back in real time. Musicians at the that
time were already able to create convincing instrument simulations using state-of-the-art
synthesizer and sampling technologies, but high-quality simulation of that ultimate instrument
the human voiceremained elusive. Our goal from the start was to create commercial software
that would implement this difficult technology in a way that would make it accessible to
everyone.

Why Use Synthesized Singing?

Until recently, a musical performance generally required one musician for each instrument. To
produce a big orchestra sound, you needed a full complement of musicians and instruments. But
financial and spatial constraints often made such a lineup impractical. Then, with the emergence
of electronic instrumentation, it became possible to get a big sound using fewer musicians and
instrumentsa single synthesizer could now be used to simulate numerous acoustic instruments,
and each musician could take control of multiple electronic instruments. But humans were still
required for all of the singing parts. Producers could get into trouble if they were short several
singers for the chorus, or if a singer became unavailable for a performance. At Yamaha, we saw
that we could help solve this problem by getting computers to sing. Synthetic singers come with
additional benefits as well: they will sing the same song as many times as desired, always
correctly, and always without complaint. Our goal was to design high-quality virtual singers that
would offer their advantages. They believe someday use of synthesized singer will someday be
considered as normay playing a piano for musical creativity
How vocaloid work
To make voice synthesis a reality, they begin by recording a live singer in a studio. they record
what is needed to generate the full range of elements necessary to build a convincing virtual
singer. In particular, we record many combinations of vowel and consonant sounds, and many
combinations of different pronunciations (variations in nasal quality, etc.) and song lyrics.
The recorded data is then broken into sound fragments. These fragments are then further
adjusted, edited, and refined into elements suitable for concatenation into a smooth sound. These
elements are then stored to a database known as a singer library or singer database. Since each
language uses its own distinct set of phonemes, we use different recording scripts and databases
for each language we support: Japanese, English, and others that may follow.
VOCALOID products are designed and marketed by outside companies under license from
Yamaha. The singer library constitutes the licensing company's propriety part of the product. The

licensing company selects the virtual singer (library) and then creates the vocal parts for that
singer.
Vocaloid software enables users to synthesize singing by typing in lyrics and melody. It uses
synthesizing technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors or singers. To create a
song, the user must input the melody and lyrics. A piano roll type interface is used to input the
melody and the lyrics can be entered on each note. The software can change the stress of the
pronunciations, add effects such as vibrato, or change the dynamics and tone of the voice. Each
Vocaloid is sold as "a singer in a box" designed to act as a replacement for an actual singer.
The software was originally only available in English starting with the first Vocaloids Leon, Lola
in January 2004 and Miriam and Japanese with Meiko and Kaito, but Vocaloid 3 has added
support for Spanish for the Vocaloids Bruno, Clara and Maika; Chinese for Luo Tianyi and
Yanhe; Korean for SeeU.
First vocaloid dont have characters yet. Then they realized that they need to give vocaloid image
and character. So they start give image for their vocaloid. The first vocaloid that have image is
kaito
Vocaloid begin popular when they introduced hatsune miku as first vocaloid that used vocaloid 2
engine inAugust 31, 2007. unlike any Vocaloid before.
Miku was voiced, not by a professional singer, but by an anime voice actress. As a result, though
her voice is not very realistic, it is easily identifiable and more understandable than previous
Vocaloids.
The success of the original version of Hatsune Miku led to a release of an improved expansion
pack, Hatsune

Miku

Append.

The

Append

package

came

with

six

enhanced

voices: Sweet, Dark, Soft, Light, Vivid, and Solid, each designed to allow for more expression
than was possible with just the original.
Through Nico Nico Douga, Youtube, and with other cultural factors, Hatsune Miku
became the next sensation in Japan, and was able to singlehandedly transform the Vocaloid scene
to grow in popularity worldwide through the internet. The release of Hatsune Miku also came

with the development of new cultures based around Vocaloid. Along with the new cultures came
a new market for the vocaloid fans with merchandise for the avatar of Hatsune Miku and other
voice banks. The combination of Mikus cute and recognizable image and vocal sound quality
struck a chord within the population of people who use Vocaloid products in Japan. It was this
cute aspect that partially aided in Cryptons success, as there was a popularity with cute
characters in Japan. Within the first 12 days of sales, over 3,000 reservations for the software had
been placed along with 40,000+ copies sold in the first year, and over 70,000+ copies sold in
2012. Mikus release also marked the first time that a Vocaloid voice bank was given a range of
human-like attributes: promotional material states that Miku is a 16 year old girl who stands 158
cm tall and weighs in at 42 kg. Her genre is listed as Idol Pop/Dance music; her suggested tempo
is 70-150 beats per minute; her suggested musical range is A3-E5, and her character item is the
spring onion or otherwise known as the negi. The negi was initially not an official attribute, but a
fan creation stemming from the Internet Meme involving a derivative of Hatsune Miku named
Hachune Miku in the Ievan Polkka video. It has since been adopted as canon for Miku. The
Ievan Polkka cover also helped Hatsune Miku shoot into popularity even further as it helped
reveal the possibilities a user could have with Hatsune Miku aside from professional use.
Meanwhile, the Project DIVA series of rhythm video games brought a wider audience to the
Vocaloid fandom.
Recently, major Vocaloid companies, like Crypton Future Media, creators of Hatsune Miku, have
been attempting to penetrate the Western market through promotions and English language
releases.
Cryton future media also made piapro. piapurois a website that allows users to upload their
music, illustrations, song lyrics and 3D models. Where creators of all artistic professions
collaborated with other creators along with viewers as they shared suggestions and gave
comments to help produce user generated content. So they can inspire each other
Nowadays vocaloid give great impact in culture, music industries, entertainment. There are lot
produser that used vocaloid as their singer. Such as kz(livetune), Dixie Flatline, Giga-p,
DECO*27, doriko, JimmyThumb-P, etc. Producer" is the term used for any person that produces
Vocaloid-related audiovisual material, generally original music or fanmade PVs. Currently

vocaloid already have 100.000 more originally song. And their song often use as soundtrack
game, soundtrack film, soundtrack commercial, soundtrack company.
In 2009 they held first vocaloid live concert during Animelo Summer Live at the Saitama Super
Arena
In 2013 ,MikuMikuDance, a freeware animation program created by Yu Higuchi, allows users to
choreograph, animate and produce 3D animation movies. It was developed specifically for the
growing Miku phenomenon and came with several Crypton Future Media Vocaloid 3D models
As vocaloid got famous there are lot people start to cover they music and mirror they dance. And
lot band, artist singer and idol group do that.