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Vocaloid 4 is a singing voice synthesizer and successor to Vocaloid 3 in the Vocaloid series. ==History== In October 2014, the first Vocaloid confirmed for the Vocaloid 4 engine was the English vocal Ruby, whose release was delayed so she could be released on the newer engine. Shortly afterwards, Wat of Crypton Future Media reacted to the news in regards to the upcoming "new Luka vocal".〔 〕 Megurine Luka V4X was announced on November 20, 2014. A Vocaloid 4 version for OS X has also been announced. Megurine Luka V4X will be compatible with OS X.〔 〕 All AH-Software vocals, with the exception of Tohoku Zunko, were also announced as receiving updated packages as well as VY1v4. The update of the AH-Software Vocaloid 2 vocals is related to Windows 10 being released in 2015, and the impact it may have on the Vocaloid 2 software.〔 〕 The new engine allows the importation of Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloid 3 vocals, though Vocaloid 2 vocals must have already been imported into Vocaloid 3 for this to work. The new engine includes other features, but not all of them are accessible by Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloid 3 vocals. One of the new features is a "Growl" feature which allows vocals built for Vocaloid 4 to take on a growl-like property in their singing results. Cross-synthesis was also added, allowing the user to switch between two of a character's vocals built for the same language smoothly using a time-varying parameter. This feature is accessible by Vocaloid 3 and Vocaloid 4 vocals, but not Vocaloid 2. Cross-synthesis only works with vocals from the same character, making use with packages like VY1v4 possible, but not packages such as Anon and Kanon.〔〔 〕 Another feature included is ''Pitch Rendering'', which all imported vocals can use. This displays the effective pitch curve on the user interface. Finally, ''real-time input'' has been included in this version and is another feature which all vocals can use. VSQX files made for Vocaloid 3 work in Vocaloid 4, but they will not work the other way around.〔 For Japanese users who had bought Vocaloid 3, Vocaloid 3 Editor,〔 (discontinued, integrated on Vocaloid 4) 〕 Vocaloid Editor for Cubase〔 (discontinued, integrated on Vocaloid 4) 〕 or VY1v3, Yamaha offered a free upgrade for each software. Those who bought the editor after November 10, 2014 were also offered a free upgrade until June 2015.〔 〕 One of the highlights of the Cross-synthesis function is that it can produce very different results depending on which vocals are mixed. Megpoid V4's two vocals "Native" and "NativeFat" will not produce much difference between them. However, by mixing Megpoid V4 pcjages vocals "Power" and "Sweet" the function will produce a result that is so different that it will be like having another voice library for the Megpoid V4 package entirely.〔(link )〕 When it was first released, it was only available in Japanese or English even though it was fully capable of using Chinese, Korean and Spanish vocals from Vocaloid 3. This was similar to the how with the original Vocaloid software that its interface was only in English, despite having vocals for Japanese. Chinese vocals Yuezheng Ling and Zhanyin Lorra were also developed as releases intended for Vocaloid 3 despite the release of Vocaloid 4. As of the voice "Cyber Diva", some long term bugs were fixed and pronunciations addressed. English Vocaloid libraries now use a new shorter, more effective script. A custom library was made for the vocal, the largest ever made, which caused an issue with the dictionary proxy that was addressed. English vocals now have more clarity, at the price of expressive tones. Due to the mislabeling of certain phonetic symbols, all past English built vocals were reported to have incorrect sounds assigned to certain symbols, this has been addressed with the new script. A Mobile version of the editor was also released. The engine was also the last version released while Hideki Kenmochi was head of the Vocaloid project. On January 30, 2015, he announced his retirement, at the same time noting that Vocaloid will continue its development. He was replaced with Katsumi Ishikawa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vocaloid 4」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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