Hatsune Miku . It is a voice bank for the VOCALOID program , software developed by Crypton Future Media for music editing, which also allows you to create a voice from a letter and a melody.
Summary
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- 1 Appearance and dress
- 2 History
- 1 Miku Append
- 2Miku V3 English
- 3MIKU V3
- 4MIKU V4X
- 5 MIKU V4 Chinese
- 3 Appearances in other media
- 4Games
- 5The Cultural Impact
- 6songs
- 7Music Videos
- 8 Sources
Appearance and dress
Crypton Future Media has given him the permanent age of 16 years, with a height of 1.58 cm and a weight of 42 kg. Long turquoise hair as well as eyes, he almost always wears his hair in two ponytails.
His most characteristic clothing is composed of a bright gray sleeveless shirt, with aquamarine edges with a yellow patch on the left side that says vocaloid underneath, an aquamarine tie to match his hair, and on his arms, colored sleeves. black that include an equalizer and a red mark with the number 01 that underneath says Miku.
The lower part of his outfit is made up of a black plaid skirt, a black and cyan belt pendant, and black boots with a matching edge to the tie.
In addition to this, he is usually seen with a pair of headphones over his ears whose headband is under his hair and a tattoo on his left forearm that says “01”.
History
Vocaloid was nothing more than a little known program, until Miku was released. Nico Nico Douga played a fundamental role in the recognition and popularity of the software . Shortly after its release, Nico Nico Douga users began uploading videos of songs created with the software. According to Crypton, a popular video with a cartoon version of Miku holding a leek and singing Levan Polkkait presented the multiple possibilities of applying the software in the creation of multimedia content. This is how Miku Hatsune was the first release for the Vocal Character series (CV) and the first Vocaloid developed by Crypton Future Media and the third to be distributed. The idea behind it was first established as “A cute, feminine voice with which professionals can create designs to combine recognizable characteristics in their voices.”
On 31 August of the 2007 it was released for the Vocaloid software 2.2. The success of the campaign brought Miku to the point of being considered the first Japanese virtual idol. Hatsune Miku is the first hologram singer for the reason of her great success, her “partners” are: Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin and Len, MEIKO, KAITO and Kasane Teto.
She was nominated and won an award at the “All About” Awards 2007 and your company Crypton Future Media picked up an NCB prize in 2008 for his productions.
Miku Append
Crypton conceived a 2009 Valentine’s Day project , this package consists of adding an expressive touch to Miku when singing, with a total of six libraries; SWEET, DARK, SOFT, LIGHT, VIVID and SOLID.
She was released on April 30, 2010 for VOCALOID2.3. Her Boxart append shows her hair a much greener color than her original product and her outfit has changed to a much more varied color scheme, it was created in order to have a futuristic touch.
Miku V3 English
Miku’s voicebank in English was taken into account after the insistent request of several of her fans, for this Crypton created a fanpage on Facebook that requested a certain number of “likes” to know the interest and to know if it was carried out or not , the goal did not take long to be achieved. Finally, Hatsune Miku’s official facebook site announced that her voicebank in English would be available for summer 2013, giving the option to subscribe to the official Miku English site to receive more information.
MIKU V3
On 24 July of the 2013 , it was confirmed that VOCALOID2; Hatsune Miku and Append would be included in a new version of the Hatsune Miku V3 update. The Crypton website was updated in July to include MEIKO V3 and Hatsune Miku V3. However, there would only be five voice banks; ORIGINAL, SWEET, DARK, SOFT and SOLID LIGHT and VIVID V3 are purchased separately). It was released on September 26, 2013 for VOCALOID3 and the design was renewed, this time by iXima.
MIKU V4X
For Hatsune Miku’s eighth anniversary, it was announced that a new package for the VOCALOID4 engine would be released scheduled for the first half of 2016 . Those who owned Hatsune Miku V3 or Megurine Luka V4X would have the opportunity to obtain a demo version of Hatsune Miku V4X by mid-September 2015 , which would last until August 31, 2016. That same day their first demo song, Electro Saturator, using its beta state voice bank with the EVEC5 function.
MIKU V4 Chinese
On December 3, 2016 during the Miku Expo 2016 event in China, the Miku China project and a future voice bank that will give you the ability to sing in Chinese was revealed.
Appearances in other media
Miku hologram
* Miku’s 1st appearance in an anime was in episodes 5 and 13 of ” Zoku Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei ” in which it is seen that she along with Kagamine Rin and Len audition to be the voice of Otonashi Meru.
- In the Phineas and Ferbseries , the Levan Polkka video is referenced in the episode “Phineas and Ferb: Summer belongs to you!” (Like Phineas and Ferb: Yours, the summer is in Latin America and as Phineas and Ferb: It’s your summer and you in Spain).
- In the series ” Baka To Test To Shoukanjuu” she appears for a brief moment in episode 6 as one of the students from class B with her back turned.
- In the game Tales of Graces( Wii ), she is a downloadable costume for one of the characters. In Phantasy Star Portable 2 ( PSP ), her hairstyle is available to female characters, and her outfit as well as various ” leek ” based weapons can be unlocked with certain passwords.
- In the Mortal Kombat Armageddongame , in Kreate a Fighter mode, her hairstyle is available for female characters.
Games
Project DIVA
- Hatsune Miku Project DIVA – July 2, 2009.
- Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Arcade – January 2010.
- Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Dreamy Theater – July 24, 2010.
- Hatsune Miku Project DIVA 2nd – July 29, 2010.
- Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Dreamy Theater 2nd – August 4, 2011.
DIVA Extend
- Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Extend – Fall or Winter 2011.
- Hatsune Miku project DIVA F – August 30, 2012.
- Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X by Sega – March 24, 2016
The Cultural Impact
Cultural Impact
On November 26 of the 2007 began publishing the manga “Maker Hikōshiki Hatsune Mix” in the magazine “Comic Rus”, published by Jive. This manga is drawn by KEI, Miku’s original designer and illustrator. On December 26 of the same year a 2nd manga called Hachune Miku no Nichijō Roipara! and drawn by Ontama began to be published in Comp Ace magazine, published by Kadokawa Shoten. On May 6 of the 2008 , the artist named Minami, he began publishing the popular web 4koma Chibi Miku-san in his webpage.En the CEATEC Japan 2009, Boffin in association with Yamaha made the HRP-4C robot use Vocaloid software to sing as a demo. On that occasion, Miku’s voicebank was used in the demo, and the robot was dressed as her. Miku along with Gumi and Crypton’s CV-4Cβ prototype voice have been the 3 voicebanks used in the robot.
At the end of November 2009 , a petition was launched for the image of Hatsune Miku to be included in 8 cm x 12 aluminum plates, which would be used as ballast for the Akatsuki space explorer , on a mission to Venus. Started by Miku fan Sumio Morioka, the one targeting producer chodenzi-P, earns this project the nickname of Dr. Seiichi Sakamoto of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. On December 22 of the 2009 , and requests exceeded the 10,000 signatures needed to build the plates. The original deadline was on December 20 of the 2009But due to a couple of delays in the Akatsuki project, a new deadline was set for January 6 of the 2010 ; By the time this date was reached, more than 14,000 signatures had been collected . Finally , on May 21 of the 2010 , the Akatsuki was launched, having three plates with the image of Miku in its fuselage.
songs
Hatsune Miku has released many songs, most of which made her even more famous than it was like:
- Levan Polkka
- World is mine
- Romeo and cinderella
- Popipo
- Love is war
- Coming Together
- Let The Music Speak
- Shine for me
- Second star
- FATE
