Vocaloid 4 was released in 2015, and added a feature which let voicebanks made specifically for Vocaloid 4 sound like they were growling. A lot of companies that made voicebanks for Vocaloid 2 upgraded their voicebanks to Vocaloid 3 because it sounded better. Vocaloid 3 was released on October 21st, 2011. The way vocals were synthesized was changed, and so was the way the program looked. Vocaloid was originally nicknamed 'Daisy' as a reference to the song 'Daisy Bell', but eventually they got rid of that name and decided to use 'Vocaloid' instead. They announced it at a German music festival. Yamaha started working on Vocaloid in 2000. Vocaloid voices can be made to sound more realistic by using vibrato and changing things like how breathy a voice sounds. Vocaloid works by taking samples of singers and separating them into parts. Music groups like Livetune and Supercell have made music using Vocaloid voicebanks. Vocaloid is meant both for professional and amateur music makers, since Vocaloid is easy to use, so the only limit is the user's skill. This changed later on with the release of Kaito and Meiko, which were both Japanese voicebanks. Vocaloid originally only had an English version available, with two English voicebanks, Leon and Lola, being released for it. Vocaloid was originally not supposed to be a commercial product, but with the help of Yamaha, became the program we know today. The people involved in this project later created the company Voctro Labs.

Vocaloid was developed partially through a research project led by Kenmochi Hideki. Voicebanks for Vocaloid are made by recording samples of singers. The user can type in lyrics and a melody and it will synthesize singing.

It was created by Yamaha, a company that sells musical instruments, as well as other products. Vocaloid is a music software that's used to make vocals for music. English, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese

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