forgive me for my bad Japanese...! すみません........ シリエス (Shiriesu) might be how I'll write my name in Japanese? It sounds the most ideal to me for "Cereus". PRESS SPACE TO ADVANCE As stated on my last project, I obtained Hatsune Miku's lovely V4X voicebank (with appendages)! <3 I'll be trying her out tomorrow, I think. She's pretty special to me, since she was the first Vocaloid I ever heard sing. To be honest, before I got into Vocaloid, I thought that it was some sort of band (lol). I thought that Hatsune Miku was a real person whom was hiding behind a fake identity to appeal to more fans, and had autotuned her voice a LOT. (I even thought Kikuo was a female Vocaloid that had a purple color scheme, for some reason?? And that "she" wrote songs and worked with the Crypton Future Media Vocaloids? Now I just laugh at myself for thinking that lol) The first time I was introduced to such a voice, I disliked it and thought it sounded unrealistic and like someone was trying too hard to sound cute. The first song I listened to that Hatsune Miku sung was Glass Wall, so I guess it's understandable as to why I thought her voice was weird--it was English, and her English VB sounds a little off from her Japanese one. Later, I saw a flipnote using the song "愛して愛して愛して" and fell in love with it instantly. To this day, I still feel a special connection to that flipnote and almost cry when I see it (I know that's weird, sorry!). As I was looking around for it to use in an AMV on Scratch, I found out that the song was originally sung by Hatsune Miku and the version I had listened to was a male, human cover. I listened to the project for a mere second and immediately thought, "oh, it's this edgy little girl again. Her voice is too high-pitched and smooth for this song. I don't like this." Later on, I listened to... Gomen ne Gomen ne... yeah. I think it was a cover using KAITO, but I'm not 100% positive. I also heard it on yet another flipnote on YouTube (the first flipnote I saw on Instagram, lol). I liked how the song sounded, but the meaning behind it was so messed up that I strayed away from Kikuo for a little bit. I forgot what happened inbetween that. I just know that I eventually began to think that every Japanese song was a Vocaloid song, and soon enough did enough research to find out that the singer of my favorite songs was actually a musical instrument; a virtual singer to be used in a singing synthesizer program. This was interesting yet very shocking to me, so while I was at my cousin's new house in Austin, I did some more research on Vocaloid. I found out so much, and by then I was already listening to many of Kikuo's songs. (Actually, this was also the same time in which I fell in love with Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Those were good times for me. I cried a lot, but I had never felt more human in my life.) So this is where I found out that I could buy "her" on Amazon. Yep. A few months ago, I immediately aspired to become a Vocaloid producer, using her in my songs just like my idol, Kikuo. It was such a shock to know that the singer I had only been interested in for a few weeks or less was a product that I could own and use for my own work. With that, all I wanted was Miku's voicebank. I waited months, saying all I wanted for my birthday was her voicebank, along with the Yamaha Vocaloid 4 editor. I saved up as much money as possible in hopes that that year I could obtain my new favorite singer. I had grown accustomed to her voice and found out that I loved how smooth it sounded in the first Japanese song I ever heard by her: "愛して愛して愛して". It was so angelic, and even my sister agreed (and she dislikes Vocaloid music! After I gave her a listen to the song, all she ever wanted to listen to was it. She was surprised when she found out my precious Hatsune Miku sung it.) that she sung it quite well. My dad told me that if I had gotten an A on my math finals, he would purchase her voicebank. With ever-so-much determination un-exhibited by such a person as I, I worked to get the passing grade. Sadly, I would up being three points off from an A--an 87. Things happened, my dad told me he would still purchase her if I passed the whole school year (I was currently failing a majority of my classes), and although I wound up passing with a mere 70 on one of my courses for the year, he decided it was not enough and denied me her voicebank. Because of that incident, I started saving up even more money to get her without my dad's help. It took around a month of waiting, but here I am now. I didn't have enough money to purchase the Vocaloid 4 editor, but I had enough to purchase her V4X bundle. Earlier I had been having some troubles figuring out if I really was going to spend all of my money on purchasing a simple program, but my mom convinced me to not waste my money on other things and instead spend it on the thing I had waited most to buy: Miku's V4X bundle. ...
(continued from Instructions) I even still managed to buy one manga with my leftover money, since I got the package for a great deal--$40 off from the regular price. I was really lucky at that time, for I only had enough money for it at a price cut so low, and even after new shipments came in, the price was raised back to its regular state, $200. So, that's pretty much it. It's really late at night, so I have to stop writing. Or, uh, typing. I'm so glad I finally got Miku. :> I really hope that I'll have fun using her in the future! --The Next Day-- She isn't the only Vocaloid I want, of course. I'm still very much interested in purchasing Tone Rion, Rana, Fukase, Gumi, KAITO, Cyber Diva, and a lot more. It's just that Miku's bundle came with a program I can use without Vocaloid 4. Plus, I'll always hold a special connection to this popular Vocaloid.
