I think people are completely missing the most interesting point of this by only focusing on the "hologram".
Hatsune Miku is a Vocaloid, which is a singing synthesizer, and you can user her to create singing in place of having an actual person do it.
What this does is give people that do not have a singing voice, or knows someone that does, a chance to still create their own music by using a Vocaloid as the singer.
There are literally tens of thousands of songs made that's using Vocaloid, and the vast majority of that is done by indie musicians that have no connection to the big music industry.
Using Vocaloid is also a possible steppingstone for getting recognized. Ryo, which created the song supercell and signed with Sony Music.
There are tons of great music out there. For example, below are two of my favorites:
Both were made by Kz which I consider to be a God among men in the Vocaloid community.
And there's other Vocaloids besides Miku.
Megurine Luka
Kagamine Rin
And many more, but posting them all would be too much. You can see them all listed on Wikipedia
I like Vocaloid because together with the ease of promoting yourself on the Internet, it's a big punch in the face for the big leeches in the music industry.
You no longer need to have a big money hungry corporation backing you to be successful, and Vocaloid has helped give proof of that.
To be honest, before I have never bought any music and have only listened to it online. I did not want to support the executives that only think of their bottom line instead of the artists.
But in the last year I have bought three physical albums and over a hundred songs on iTunes.
All of them is using Vocaloid and none of them have any form of connection to the big corporations.
To end I'll give a bit of information for those that wish Miku didn't sing in Japanese.
Crypton Future Media official facebook page.
If it receives a total of 39390 likes, they will do it.
Hatsune Miku is a Vocaloid, which is a singing synthesizer, and you can user her to create singing in place of having an actual person do it.
What this does is give people that do not have a singing voice, or knows someone that does, a chance to still create their own music by using a Vocaloid as the singer.
There are literally tens of thousands of songs made that's using Vocaloid, and the vast majority of that is done by indie musicians that have no connection to the big music industry.
Using Vocaloid is also a possible steppingstone for getting recognized. Ryo, which created the song supercell and signed with Sony Music.
There are tons of great music out there. For example, below are two of my favorites:
Both were made by Kz which I consider to be a God among men in the Vocaloid community.
And there's other Vocaloids besides Miku.
Megurine Luka
Kagamine Rin
And many more, but posting them all would be too much. You can see them all listed on Wikipedia
I like Vocaloid because together with the ease of promoting yourself on the Internet, it's a big punch in the face for the big leeches in the music industry.
You no longer need to have a big money hungry corporation backing you to be successful, and Vocaloid has helped give proof of that.
To be honest, before I have never bought any music and have only listened to it online. I did not want to support the executives that only think of their bottom line instead of the artists.
But in the last year I have bought three physical albums and over a hundred songs on iTunes.
All of them is using Vocaloid and none of them have any form of connection to the big corporations.
To end I'll give a bit of information for those that wish Miku didn't sing in Japanese.
Crypton Future Media official facebook page.
If it receives a total of 39390 likes, they will do it.
