Just when I thought I'd seen it all...

Hatsune Miku

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7...eature=related

So from what I understand, someone in Japan created a software the sings songs. The songs became so popular that a concert was demanded. And this was the result. A real band with a holographic anime singer.

What's next?

Lol, I saw that a while a while ago. I would total go to that concert if I could. :D

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hold on, let me go check the temperature in hell............................................................................ ................................................................. yep, its a blizzard down there lol.
seriously though, you gotta love the freakin' japs, only them...

That's ridiculous and sort of awesome! :8:

How is that any different from our own "Gorrilaz". For years they never actually went public and for shows they still used the animations used in the videos like this "performance".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAXIj5QViw&sns=e

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Originally Posted by Foschi Exotic Serpents

How is that any different from our own "Gorrilaz". For years they never actually went public and for shows they still used the animations used in the videos like this "performance".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAXIj5QViw&sns=e

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Couple of differences.

• The singer is a computer. That is not a real voice. Only the onstage band is real.
• This is a hologram, not a 2D drawing. I understand that it's on a semi transparent screen but from all angles I could see it looked like a 3D anime girl on the stage.

Awesome stealing to put on facebook :P

Very cool, To bad it's not in English....but I'm sure that can't be far away.

Just wonder when we will see (probably in some casino in Vegas) Holographic Elvis or Jim Morrison or Janis Joplin.....

Looking at this.. probably very soon...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep???

The japs are the ones that are trying to do the world cup in holigraphic broadcast. But i totely disagree with this, to me the music and the performance just isn't personal... Kinda like doing computer over ride on a singers voice, Maybe this is why I am so much into indie music

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Originally Posted by crepers86

The japs are the ones that are trying to do the world cup in holigraphic broadcast. But i totely disagree with this, to me the music and the performance just isn't personal... Kinda like doing computer over ride on a singers voice, Maybe this is why I am so much into indie music

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Yeah, I'd much rather see a band play in the flesh. I also appreciate the live sound and subtle differences between a good live show and an album. A good band can usually bring so much more emotion live as well. Then again, I've seen some bands which I wish I had just stayed home and listened to the album. :D

Ah Miku. The funny thing is, the voice isn't so much a computer generated thing as a mix up of a bunch of sampling.

The original voice for Miku Hatsune (just one of the plethora of Vocaloids), was Saki Fujita. They sat her in a sound booth for a couple of hours and took samples of virtually every sound in the japanese language and in every pitch/mood they could. Throw it into the Vocaloid engine, and then program it to a beat the same way you would a synthesizer.

The holographic idea is quite a bit newer than the actual voice software, and is just there for a visual, instead of "just" hearing a face-less/body-less voice. If you look closely in the videos you can normally make out the actual band.

If you think of it from a technology perspective, it's actually quite amazing (minus the 2d hologram thing). It's rather old-school to do text-to-speech software, to the point that I had a Mac laptop in the late 90's that could do it in a variety of voices, but the idea of text-to-speech put to music and NOT being instantly recognizable as computer generated is very impressive.

And the software is currently being ported over to English, just wait until rappers, and pop-stars who can't come up with original music get ahold of this stuff.