#Tokyo6

[vocalsynthsource]

Koharu Rikka, Natsuki Karin, and Hanakuma Chifuyu have been announced.

Preorders will go from June 21st, 4pm to July 16th, 1pm. They'll be 5,280 yen, and badges will be 660 yen, both with tax included.

[vocalsynthbdays]

happy (late) birthday calne ca(fanloid) and miyamai moca(voicepeak) !!! [mar 15]

(calne ca)

(moca)

calne ca is a fanloid made by deino/ Maeda Koutarou, and initially introduced in 2009. she is a derivative of Hatsune Miku, and is officially acknowledged by cfm. calne ca is only called "calne ca" when cosplaying Miku/ when she is wearing her miku shaped casing, her "base"(?) or original body is just called "calcium", and calcium is a original character of deinos

miyamai moca is a japanese synth developed by ah software, and released on 15 feb 2024. her character birthday is mar 15 however. she was created in collaboration with Akasako, the project developer of TOKYO6 ENTERTAINMENT, however moca is not a part of tokyo6. moca is voiced by Mayu Mineda and illustrated by Miko Fly. moca loves cats and has a cat called Watson-kun. moca is secretly a DJ on the internet. she is in development for a singing synthv vb

[ribbonp]

what if TOKYO6 were an idol group and they had to become school idols to save their school

[liure00]

【Karin Natsuki】The Game Of Love【Synthesizer V Cover】

[synthvnews]

KuZiPA! Halloween lottery featuring new goods with TOKYO6 girls (Koharu Rikka, Natsuki Karin, Hanakuma Chifuyu) has been announced! 🎃🦇

Time: September 29th 12:00 ~ October 31th, 23:59 (Japan time)

Website: https://kuzipa.com/lottery/217

Ilustration by 架糸 ( @/k4itoh on Twitter)

[takoyakidonuts]

Brief update: Many Voicebank updates!

Hey all, sorry, I actually got sick so I’m a bit behind on the news again. So this update is very brief today so I won’t be very detailed or broken down like last time. Sorry for the inconvenience. Earlier this week we got more news on Kotoe Tange’s AI Voice 2 which will be released later this month on the 28th of June! Also with the release of Tamaki’s VoiSona bank today, Techno-speech…

[doodletrash01]

rikka 😂

[synthvbulletin]

Voicepeak Announcement: Miyami Moca

AHS has announced a brand new character in collaboration with Tokyo6, Miyami Moca!

According to AHS, She's second year in highschool. She talks to herself, she loves cats, and also has a hidden identity as an internet DJ! Also her favorite shop is Cafe Maki!

Her Voicepeak is expected to release 2024! Her voice provider is Mineda Mayu.

[phobos-anomaly-art]

a while ago, I saw a hat which reminded me of Rikka-chan!

[youkah]

calling all vsynth fans do you have any requests for covers... I prefer working with synth v but I only own three banks and don't like the lite versions much so I'll suffer with vocaloid 5 too I guess. oh also if you have any utau download recs and requests as well. doesn't have to be a vocaloid song, I learned how to make my own ust/svp/vsq lol

covers I'm already working on:

Bug

Shanti

Roki

ID Smile

Tokyo Teddy Bear

Egoist

[fearofevrything]

ding dong everyone come get your Chifuyu solo version of Monster! this one was mixed differently from the final cut and it's a bit more crusty because it's technically unfinished but it's good enough to post. I love Chifuyu so much, people think she's only good for soft songs but they just don't know her like i do

[nonono-zzz]

#超TOKYO6の日 pic.twitter.com/ZsNryJlnvD

— ヤッペン (@yatt83) June 6, 2024

[vocalsynthbdays]

happy birthday Hanakuma Chifuyu(synthv studio/ cevio ai) !!!! [mar 2]

(synthv and cevio)

Hanakuma Chifuyu is a japanese synth developed by TOKYO6 ENTERTAINMENT in collaboration with ah software, and released on 20 oct 2022 for both synthv studio and cevio ai. her character birthday is mar 2 however. she is voiced by Kaya Okuno, and illustrated by Nari Teshima

[sunshowersz]

art of the tokyo6 girls + my son ryo. they are friends in my mind as my awesome vocaloid ocs. i only ever think about them at least 5,000 words at a time

[lesbian-forte]

Criticisms of Vocaloid and why I like SynthV

I'm not trying to change anyone's mind here, but I would like to say my piece after certain takes seem to miss the point entirely. This might be a bit of a rant.

Vocaloid has gone stagnant in recent years. Yamaha doesn't care. Yamaha doesn't need Vocaloid and is a large corporation that gets much more money off of their DAW software and actual instruments as opposed to something as niche as vocal synths that are both only big in Japan and also only if they're in the top ten or so.

Yamaha stopped putting effort into Vocaloid during the V4-V5 transition. There is a reason V4 has so many cancelled voicebanks. Several developers were working on V4 and Yamaha rendered their devkit suddenly worthless. Devs would have to purchase a V5 devkit and start work over, or quit Vocaloid. And as vocal synth companies are generally very small, few of them would want to continue or even be able to afford it.

So they moved. Miku splitting off for Piapro gave them an opening, and others started looking for alternatives. Then IA went to CeVIO. And more and more. And by the time V5's sun was setting, all the third parties that worked on that were gone too.

But for a while, you didn't hear much from most of them. If a company released a V4 at the tailend of its lifespan or a V5, they had to wait for exclusivity to expire. And Yamaha's exclusivity deals are harsh (ending distribution of existing song voicebanks in the case of utaus with the same VP) and long, borderline predatory. So voices that companies wanted to update couldn't receive them until those expired, or else refresh that deal and stay constrained by a company that didn't even want to bother with them.

So, come V6, Yamaha was desperate. Internet Co had made an ultimatum that if a Vocaloid 6 didn't come out soon, then they'd be going too. That was their last, and after Crypton packed their bags, most important third party. So they accelerated their plans and looked at what the new guys were doing to be so successful.

They took the wrong lesson.

AI is not inherently better. Sample-based voicebanks will always have their place. Traditional samples can allow an unnaturally large range and harsher voice acting than would be possible to maintain. AI is more accurate to the voice provider, and you have a greater degree of freedom with its tone, plus updates and additional features are so much easier- but Yamaha took 'AI' at face value and made a low-quality copy that sounds significantly worse than prior Vocaloid versions and pushed it with Gumi. They could have stuck to improving their concatenative synthesis render quality further- that's what SynthV started as, R1 was just a very well-rendered sample-based program that is probably just a fancy utau under the hood.

But Vocaloid jumped on the bandwagon by doing the absolute bare minimum and claiming the ear-grating engine noise that can cause actual nausea is remaining faithful to the 'Vocaloid sound' even though styrofoam on the mic and a sometimes pleasant metallic twang sound nothing alike. They didn't improve accessibility, V6 has the same stability issues as V5, and the shiny new feature Vocalochanger is just RVC but worse.

Then, less than a year after product launch, they start up VxB and don't do anything to improve the software they're actively selling. Internet Co themselves called this out in the form of a Gumi tweet. Then Internet Co got in talks with Tokyo6 and saw a possible out, so they gave it a go. They're still under contract by Yamaha so what they can do is limited, but we saw them stray as well. And the result is a much better quality version (though arguably still worse than her V4) despite being an exact port.

We're still getting a Gumi Solid V6 because V6 can't do emotions and they still have to be separate banks, and VxB still got a major update even though it's dying in April with radio silence for V6 development, while CeVIO/VoiSona is releasing 2.0s that get major acclaim like Ci Flower's reputation totally getting turned around, and SynthV is sitting pretty with several voicebanks announced and several coming out in December alone, and the most recent in-progress update including both voice-to-midi (which is what vocalochanger should've been) and Spanish.

I do not like V6, V5, or Yamaha. It could've been amazing for Gumi or Una to get updates so they'd have crosslang (or better crosslang) capabilities, as I work in English. But the result was extremely poorly implemented and Yamaha has made no effort to fix that.

I use SynthV all the time, I'd do the same for CeVIO if it offered crosslang as well rather than just dictionaries and a couple English banks. I'm not against trying new things. But I either want the other programs to have the things to suit my needs in a quality manner that's intuitive to use or for the voicebanks I love to get versions on programs that already do. It's not that complicated.

The jokes and the yammering from rabid SynthV fans dissing Vocaloid can get to be too much sometimes. But you have to consider where that actually comes from. It's in response to suddenly being spoiled with a cheap, accessible, high-quality program when the expensive, poorly constructed, difficult one has been dominating the market with anti-consumer, anti-third party practices for years.

P.S.: Also you can do robotic tuning and mixing on realistic vocal synths, it's called doing the same thing as before and then adding it in post. You think utaites swallow vocoders or something? No, they just use different tools to get the same result as engine noise. Not fighting the voice when you're trying to go for realistic vs manual tuning and adding some very easy effects on when doing it the other way around is better, actually.

[synthvnews]

New, official illustrations with TOKYO6 girls are now available for free!

Different face expressions + transparent background. Illustrated by 架糸 and commissioned by TOKYO6 for creators to use in the editor, videos and such.

Rikka

Karin

Chifuyu

More info (in japanese only)