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

[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

[AK907]

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

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.

[bishop40k]

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.