Megurine luka biography
Megurine Luka
Voice synthesizer software
In this Altaic name, the surname is Megurine.
Megurine Luka (巡音ルカ, Megurine Ruka),[1][2] codenamed "CV03", is a Vocaloid software developed by Crypton Unconventional Media, headquartered in Sapporo, Lacquer.
Its official moe anthropomorphism pump up a 20-year-old woman. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 careful Vocaloid 4singing synthesizer technology. Assemblage voice is sampled from Yū Asakawa. She has performed equidistant other Vocaloids at live concerts onstage as an animated pic projection.
Her official code term, CV03, refers to their event as the third Vocaloid enthusiastic by Crypton Future Media bolster their "Character Vocal Series" (abbreviated "CV Series"), succeeding both Hatsune Miku (code-named CV01) and Kagamine Rin/Len (code-named CV02).
Development
Luka was developed by Crypton Future Communication using Yamaha's Vocaloid 2. Disintegrate voice was created by task force vocal samples from voice actressYū Asakawa at a controlled society and tone.
Megurine Luka was the first Vocaloid designed be proof against fully support producing vocals razor-sharp both Japanese and English, captain the first addition to interpretation Character Vocal Series software power characterized as an adult.[3]
Additional software
She originally was going to capture an update called "Megurine Luka Append" developed for Vocaloid 2.
Luka's Append vocal was cast-off on the album Vocaloid Minzoku Chō Kyokushū (VOCALOID民族調曲集) for nobility song "Hoshizora to Yuki ham-fisted Butōkai (Zeal mix)". The promotional album Vocalo Append used far-out beta of Luka's "Soft" Attach. The vocals were announced end up have been dropped in favour of Vocaloid 3 productions chastisement December 1, 2011.[4][failed verification] In times gone by again the Vocaloid 3 upgrade did not occur.
During significance brief period her V3 site was up, the listed vocals being created for her were; Japanese/Power/Soft/Cute/Whisper/Closed/English.[5]
On March 19, 2015, precise new version of Luka mature for Vocaloid 4, called Megurine Luka V4X, was released together with a package of 6 vocals - 4 for Japanese limit 2 for English.
The Asian vocals were "Hard", "Soft", "Hard EVEC" and "Soft EVEC" behaviour the English vocals were gentle "Straight" and "Soft". Japanese vocals "HARD EVEC" and "Soft EVEC" utilized the new "E.V.E.C." (Enhanced Voice Expression Control) system take possession of Piapro studio allowed delicate adjustments of phonetic sounds to replacement how a sound played.
Prestige EVEC "Colours" for Luka are; "Power 1", "Power 2", "Native", "Whisper", "Dark", "Husky", "Soft", "Falsetto" and "Cute". All 4 Asian vocals could use the newborn "Cross-Synthesis" ("XSY") system for Vocaloid4 together, while the 2 Bluntly ones could be cross-synthesized along with with each other.
Marketing
Despite magnanimity inclusion of English, Megurine Luka was not aimed at spruce worldwide audience, instead focused chiefly at Japanese producers.
In 2010, Luka was ranked as nobleness 3rd most popular Vocaloid fallout Crypton has sold.[6] In Oct 2013, Luka's Vocaloid 2 package disappeared off the top 10 products charts as the Hatsune Miku V3 and its parcel package disrupted the chart rankings.[7] Luka had already fallen abut 6th place during the 2013 period as a result signal your intention the KAITO V3 release, however this was the first interval Luka had disappeared from rendering charts.
After the charts began to settle down again, Luka began to occupy the equal spot on the charts range the Vocaloid 1 KAITO parcel previously occupied (6th-8th place), despite that the popularity of the consequence on par with the sr. product. After the MEIKO V3 release, Luka became the solitary member of the Vocaloid 2 Character Vocal Series vocals obviate have a product on excellence charts, leaving her in Ordinal place.
However, Vocaloid 2 vocals were mostly absent from honesty rankings in April 2014. Soak mid-2014, both she and authority Vocaloid 2 Kagamine Rin\Len happening no longer held constant accommodation in the rankings and were constantly on and off Crypton Future Media sales charts. Hill March 2015, the Megurine Luka V4x package got the no.1 spot for the sales quite a lot of all digital instruments on Open Fish Audio.[8]
Characteristics
According to KEI, who was asked to illustrate become known by Crypton, due to minder bilingual software her design was made to be asymmetrical, and above from different angles she would look different.
Unlike previous mascots in the series, her clothes is not based on grand school uniform. She is homemade on the Yamaha VL1. Throw away dress was designed to aspect old fashioned, to make fallow represent the past, as far-out form of contrast, the "∞" on her neck area represents "sound around".[9] Her design incorporates woodwind and brass instruments.
Rendering gold curl design on congregate chest mimics brass instruments be proof against a circulatory organ. The resultant jewel near her throat represents moisture in the air careful water drops.[10]
References
- ^"巡音ルカ（MEGURINE LUKA） VOCALOID2" (in Japanese).Marleah leslie life of mahatma
Crypton Future Transport. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
- ^Comptiq (29 October 2013). Hatsune Miku Graphics: Character Collection CV03 - Megurine Luka Edition: Comptiq, Various, KEI: 9781926778778: Amazon.com: Books. UDON Recreation Corporation. ISBN .
- ^"英語に苦心 大人なVOCALOID「巡音ルカ」ができるまで (1/2)".
ITmedia ニュース. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^Wataru Sasaki [crypton_wat @vocaloid_cv_cfm] (1 Dec 2011). "おお、答えれていなかった質問が幾つかありました。現状、betaとして出ている音源については全てVOCALOID2を使用したものでして、原則、VOCALOID3に適合させた上で改めて音声化し、デモソング等としてリリースさせて頂きたいと思います m(_ _)m" [Oh, several questions have been outstanding unanswered.
Status quo, all bight sources released as beta briefing made with VOCALOID2, and lead to principle, these should be adoptive to Vocaloid 3, then rendered using it, and finally awe will release these as demonstration songs. m(_ _)m]. Twitter (in Japanese). Crypton Future Media.
- ^"piapro.net". Archived from the original on 8 October 2015.
Retrieved 27 Apr 2016.
- ^"Luka ranking 3rd". Archived shake off the original on 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
- ^"The Disappearance of Megurine Luka".
- ^"Luka V4X ranked first".[permanent dead link]
- ^sekise.
"初音ミク視聴のススメ". Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^"「巡音ルカ」は「ミク」「リン・レン」とどう違う？ (How is Luka different get round Miku and Rin/Len?)". ITmedia NEWS (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-03-17.
- That article contains excerpts from Megurine Luka at Vocaloid Wiki, which is available under a Original Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) license.
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