Monday, September 27, 2010

The third Vocaloid

The third installment in The Vocal Character Series was an older looking model known as Megurine Luka (巡音ルカ), released in January 2009 -- this very year. Despite her recent release date, there already exist several songs and videos with her voice and fanart. Due to her older appearance and lower, smokier voice, she’s quite popular for songs that Miku and her bright voice, or Len and Rin with their childlike voices can’t achieve. Her voice was sampled from that of Yû Asakawa. Luka was advertized as the first vocaloid who can properly sing English, and she does a quite good job with songs such as Scarborough Fair -- but is still far from perfect. Her popular songs include “I”, “Double Lariat” and “Wonderlust”, among others. Here’s a relatively recent song, Just be Friends.

Megurine Luka (Japanese : 巡音ルカ Megurine Luka) is the third Vocaloid2 in Crypton's Vocaloid2 Character Vocal Series. Her surname combines Meguri (巡, circulate or around) and Ne (音, sound), while the name Luka invokes the homonymous Japanese words of "nagare" (流, flow) and "ka" (歌, song) or "ka" (香, scent); thus making "songs to all around the world as scent spreads." Yū Asakawa (浅川 悠)provided the voice for the "cool, somewhat mysterious" character.

                     Luka is the only one who can speak english in the Vocaloid ........... so i love her!
Moetron version (little octopus head thingy in sushi tray look a like )
Unlike its previous two characters, Crypton advertised Luka's 3GB vocal database as "Japanese/English bilingual" and chose her name to express its hope that she will transcend borders and cultural barriers. Luka was designed by the Japanese illustrator Kei, who had previously created the designs for Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin and Len. However, unlike previous mascots in the series, her costume is not based on a school uniform.
Only a few days after her release, many songs were produced. On the 70th Weekly Vocaloid Ranking (February 2, 2009), many of Luka's songs appeared in the Top 30, knocking the very popular "Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru" and songs produced by ryo (with the exception of "Melt") right out of the Top 30. "RIP=RELEASE" had taken the #1 spot, and had earned a total of 843,233 points, making it the song with the highest one-week score. ( LUKA IS MY FAVORITE)
                                                  (clear form) i like it so much
           This is by far one of the most addicting Vocaloid songs I've heard. I'm listening to it as I type.

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