Draft:Miku Miku

This page is about the voicebank and character. For the video game series featuring Miku, see Hatsune Miku: Project Diva. For other uses, see Miku Miku (disambiguation).
In this Japanese name, the surname is Hatsune.

Hatsune Miku
DeveloperCrypton Future Media
Initial releaseAugust 31, 2007
Stable release
Hatsune Miku NT V2 (New Type Version 2) / March 18, 2025
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS
PlatformPC
Available in
  • Japanese
  • English
  • Chinese
TypeVocal synthesizer application
LicenseProprietary (Vocaloid voice/software)
Creative Commons BY-NC (character design)[1]
Websiteec.crypton.co.jp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us

Hatsune Miku (Japanese: 初音ミク, [hatsɯne miꜜkɯ]), officially code-named CV01,[2][3] is a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media. Its official mascot is depicted as a sixteen-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails.[2] Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol, and has performed at live virtual concerts onstage as an animated holographic projection (rear-cast projection on a specially coated glass screen).[4]

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The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first (初, hatsu), sound (音, ne), and future (ミク, miku),[a] thus meaning "the first sound of the future",[2] which, along with her code name, refers to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series" (abbreviated "CV Series"), preceding Kagamine Rin/Len (code-named CV02) and Megurine Luka (code-named CV03). The number 01 can be seen on her left shoulder in official artwork.

Development

"Freely Tomorrow" by Mitchie M
Example of a song created using Vocaloid software with vocals by Hatsune Miku.
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Hatsune Miku was the first Vocaloid developed by Crypton Future Media after they handled the release of the Yamaha vocal Meiko and Kaito. Miku was intended to be the first of a series of Vocaloids called the "Character Vocal Series" (abbreviated "CV Series"), which included Kagamine Rin/Len and Megurine Luka. Each had a particular concept and vocal direction.[8]

During Miku's development, Crypton decided that to make the product successful not only would a highly appealing voice need to be developed, but the voice needed an image. She was originally aimed only at professional producers; the amateur and otaku market had not fully formed yet, and so were not initially considered.[9][independent source needed]

The task of coming up with Miku's image went to the manga artist Kei Garō, who was already known from doing art for various doujin artists.[10] When Kei designed Miku, his only direction was that she was an android and what her color scheme (based on Yamaha's synthesizer's signature turquoise color) was.[11] Various aspects of her clothing, such as the computer interface on her left sleeve, were based on Yamaha's synthesizers.[12]

Miku's vocal samples were taken from voice actress Saki Fujita at a controlled pitch and tone. Those samples all contain a single Japanese phonic that, when strung together, creates full lyrics and phrases.[13]

Hatsune Miku was first released on August 31, 2007, as the third commercially sold Vocaloid library. Crypton chose to market Miku as "an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost."[14] Hatsune Miku was released for Vocaloid 3 on August 31, 2013, including an English vocal library.[15]

Additional software

On April 30, 2010, a new add-on for Vocaloid 2 called Hatsune Miku Append was released. Consisting of six different timbres for the voice: Soft (gentle timbre), Sweet (young, chibi quality), Dark (mature and melancholic), Vivid (bright and cheerful), Solid (loud, clear voice), and Light (innocent and angelic),[16][17][additional citation(s) needed] Miku Append was created to expand Miku's voice library, and as such requires the original program to be installed on the user's computer.[18] This was the first time a Vocaloid had such a release, and more Append versions were reported from Crypton Future Media at later dates.[19]

It was mentioned that a seventh Append voicebank, a falsetto voice, had been recorded; however, since the developers did not think it would be useful on its own, no plans were made for an independent release.[20] During the Kagamine Append development, a "darkish Whisper/Sweet" append was being considered.[21] Miku's English vocal was due for a Vocaloid 2 release, but it was not released in the engine due to low quality.[22]

To aid in the production of 3D animations, the program MikuMikuDance was developed by an independent programmer. The freeware software allowed a boom in fan-made animations to be developed, as well as being a boost for promoting Vocaloid songs themselves.[23]

An English voicebank for Hatsune Miku was announced in 2011 and was to be released by the end of 2012. However, the decision to move to Vocaloid 3 and issues with English pronunciation delayed the release.[24] It was finally released on August 31, 2013, via digital distribution.

The Hatsune Miku Vocaloid 3 Japanese vocal library was released on September 26, 2013. It contained updates to all previous Vocaloid 2 vocals except Vivid and Light. These were later released separately, though they were initially offered to anyone who already owned Hatsune Miku, Hatsune Miku Append, and Hatsune Miku V3. Once imported into Vocaloid 4, all Hatsune Miku V3 vocals could use the new Cross-Synthesis system (XSY) built for the new engine of Vocaloid 3. The voice was imported into a device called Pocket Miku, released on April 3, 2014.[25]

Hatsune Miku received an update for Yamaha's Vocaloid 4 engine under the name of Hatsune Miku V4X. It makes use of the new EVEC system for Piapro Studio, a VSTi plugin used as an alternative to the traditional Vocaloid Editor. EVEC consists of recorded vowels. Along with the consonant, a different vocal tone can be achieved. Two vocal tones are included in the EVEC system: Power and Soft. Along with the new EVEC system, phoneme errors found in Miku's V2 and V3 voicebanks would be fixed allowing for easier manipulation of the software's voice. Hatsune Miku V4X/V4 English released on August 30, 2016.[26]

A Mandarin Chinese voicebank was released in September 2017, making Hatsune Miku the first officially trilingual Vocaloid product. Her Chinese name is 初音未来; Chūyīn Wèilái; 未来 are the kanji characters for her given name, Miku.[27]

At Magical Mirai [ja] 2019, head of Crypton Future Media's Character Development Wataru Sasaki announced that Hatsune Miku would be departing Yamaha's Vocaloid engine, and would not be utilizing Vocaloid 5 for any further development of their voice banks. It was established that the "identity" of the voices would remain the same, however.[28] Then, on December 24, 2019, Sasaki announced that information about Hatsune Miku NT (Newtype) would be released. On the same day, Sonicwire announced that the release of Hatsune Miku NT was planned for summer 2020, and those who had registered for the software early would be able to access a prototype of the new engine, Piapro Studio NT.[29]

Notes

  1. ^ Miku is a nanori reading of the word for "future" (未来), which is normally read using the on'yomi readings of its characters as mirai.[5][6][7] These are the same characters used in Miku's Chinese name (Simplified Chinese: 初音未来; traditional Chinese: 初音未來; pinyin: Chūyīn Wèilái).

References

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  3. ^ Comptiq (September 10, 2013). Hatsune Miku Graphics: Character Collection CV01 - Hatsune Miku Edition: Comptiq, Various, KEI: 9781926778747: Amazon.com: Books. UDON Entertainment Corporation. ISBN 978-1926778747.
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