Hatsune Miku

WHAT IS HATSUNE MIKU?

All of you know what they are the vocaloids, software applications of syntheses of voice capable of singing. Yamaha Corporation started to developing the technology in the year 2000, in collaboration with the Music Technology Group of the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Spain. The software vocaloid provides to the user the aptitude to synthesize songs simply contributing the lyrics and the melody. It mixes and processes vocal fragments extracted from the human voices in the shape of vocal registers, which have been before recorded and stored in a bank of sonorous data. The technology was announced by the first time in March, 2003, and the first vocaloids were to sale justly one year after. Crypton Future Media launches in 2004 its first Vocaloid, Meiko. Five vocaloids were launched between the year 2004 and 2006.

In the year 2007 the new technology is announced, vocaloid 2. Crypton decides that for this new generation its vocaloid must to be different, it musn't to limit itself to being a simple product of software, so they realize an enormous effort in the creation of its new vocaloid. Not only they offer an improved software, so that present an elaborated image, and a concept that it gives a history to the vocaloid. This does that, unlike his predecessors, Hatsune Miku is not a simple software product, so it's practically a character with an image and a history to tell. A new concept of vocaloid is born, the first virtual singer is born: Hatsune Miku.

Crypton, originally had thought establish vocaloid 2 CV-01 Hatsune Miku product, on a market extrictily professional; only would sell it to music producers and professional musicians, but, under the surprise of Crypton, Miku not only got a place on a market to users, so she gets to be established on a market to "otakus". This was overcoming the Crypton's expectations about the sale of its new product, but the thing don't stop there, Miku starts to becoming immensly popular in japan, and after, his reputation cross the frontiers conquering the entire world. Hatsune Miku, the first virtual singer, had turned into the first virtual DIVA, entering in the history of the music.

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