February 11, 2013
Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is the first Japanese Vocaloid2 in theVocaloid2 Character Vocal Series, the third Japanese Vocaloid created by Crypton Future Media, and is the seventh Vocaloid to have appeared overall; released on August 31, 2007. She is considered as the most popular and well known Vocaloid and the first to become a pop idol. The data for the voice was created by sampling the voice of Saki Fujita (藤田 咲, Fujita Saki), a Japanese voice actress.
Vocaloid 2
The idea behind her was first established as being "a cute female vocal that professionals can create from" and part of the "CV" or "Character Vocal" series who were designed to be vocals with a variety of character and colour.[3] Hatsune Miku was unveiled on the 06/25/2007, at the time the name of "Miku" was only known. Her voicebank was at 90% production at the time of her unveiling and was the first of a series of multiple vocals planned for the Vocaloid2 software. She was worked upon for more than 10 hours a day for 2 months according to Crypton Future media.[4] Her last name, "Hatsune", was unveiled on the 07/12/2007 after a 12 hour journey to Yamaha to gain permission to release the "CV01" voicebank. Due to problems with time, her Vocaloid 2 software did not have time to go to public beta testing unlike past Vocaloid vocals, this also was the same for Sweet Ann released prior to her.
Her voicebank received numerous awards;
She was nominated for an award in the "All About" awards in 2007, which she later won.[6][7]
Crypton Future Media picked up an BCN award in 2008 for their productions, with their sales reaching a 211% increase thanks to several products (One of which being Hatsune Miku).[8]
In March 2008, Hatsune Miku won the "Digital Content" AMD award.[9]
In June she picked up the MM総研大賞2008 award.[10]
At the DaiKon7 in August 2008, she recieved another award.[11]
She was awarded the "Good Design Award 2008".[12]
She won the Grand Prize at the BCN AWARD 2009.[13]
Append - the Future of Hatsune Miku
Crypton's next project involving Miku started on Valentine's Day 2009.[14] On 01/08/2009 the first two Appends were confirmed as "CV01-dark-ProtoTYPEβ" and "CV01-vivid-ProtoTYPEβ".[15] Later the names of "dark (soft dark)", "soft", "vivid", and "very_small" had been confirmed.[16]
Both the Miku product and the Append product are sold separately, and the voicebanks of Miku Append are different from the voicebank that the original Miku voicebank has. All the new voicebanks were voiced by Saki Fujita: Soft, Sweet, Dark, Vivid, Solid, and Light. Crypton announced that this is an append disk (an addition which offers extension to computer softwares and is similar to Expansion Packs in English) and users need the original Miku to utilize Miku Append. It costs collectively slightly under the original Miku price[17]. While they had been announced on Miku's second birthday, they were released over eight months later. The different appends are meant to capture the "moods" and were described by Cypton Future Media as "like a rainbow of color" and had been created from vocal performance of her voice provider.[18]
Prior to the release, demos had constantly been put on Crypton's website. These included productions by various Vocaloid producers from Nico Nico Douga. Ryo's "Black Rock Shooter" 2M mix had also been done with one of the beta voicebanks.
Despite the success of Miku herself, her Append did not sell as many units. Following the Kagamine Append release, both the Kagamine and their Append software pushed Miku's Append software into 6th place on Crypton's sales page. Though it returned to popularity soon after, the reaction to the Append has never reached the same level as her original voicebank.[19]
Her append boxart shows her hair colored much more green than her original product, and her outfit is changed to match a varied color scheme over the old almost one color scheme (her blue-green hair color).
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