Vocaloid - Interesting Technology

[lepard]

Who needs a vocalist ? Yamaha has developed a technology called "Vocaloid" that is basically a vocals synthesizer. I'll never be able to explain it so read this:

http://www.vocaloid.com/en/about/

Don't know if this has caught on in the USA yet but it's big in Japan. Here's some examples of vocaloid by a Japanese artist/producer/musican named Yuyoyuppe. This guy apparently is one the brains behind BabyMetal.

The vocals are Japanese female in vocaloid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65OCmD47md4

[pianoguyy]

Roland has been doing something similar since --- I would say '98.
Difference being - back then, you needed to speak the words. I could sit there and in my manliest of manliest voice, simply speak the words 'If ya liked it ya shoulda put a ring on it', and it could come out like a chick, or a group of chicks. Melody. Pitch. Harmony.
Not just a pitch shifter that would make you sound like the Chipmunks, but actual female voices. Also had a male and a kid.

No, I don't have any recordings of me doing it. And the ones that I used to have were on cassette.
Ahh, memories. I did a hilarious parody of Sinatra's My Way with the kid voice. I did it my mommy's way.


Sorry, dealing with the piano side of things -- I consider Yamaha the musical equivalent of Apple. Lackluster products, behind the times in most aspects, claiming to invent something that's been around for years... but marketing geniuses