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JAE UTAU PROJECT is proud to announce that a new release is coming soon! JAE-01 Xiao Meihua will be receiving two CVVC Arpasing English voicebanks: Natural and Sweet! And as usual for our UTAUs, she will be getting at least four demos before her release!
The first was a cover of GHOST's "The Distortionist" and it was covered by SlightlyShredded using Tora☆Ouji's UST! The illustration was done by cakesdown and the video was done by DIVINITY! Many thanks to all of them! The demo can be seen and heard on bilibili, YouTube, and SoundCloud!
If you've taken a look at the character pages recently, you probably noticed new links for each character. These links take you to their UTAU Wiki (1.0) pages, where they are filled with all sorts of production notes and are a little more in depth compared to the 2.0 counterparts. Both will still be updated accordingly. But because UTAU Wiki has room for production notes (these are filed away under the "History" header), we will be making note of when things were done as best as we can remember!
There were discussions among the members of JAE UTAU PROJECT that Meihua may receive additional voicebanks in other languages aside from Mandarin Chinese and Japanese ever since her production and release in 2016. We weren't able to make it happen until early 2019 with Arpasing English after JAE-03 Canary was released. After the samples were recorded, we approached bluCitrus to oto them and this process was completed in March. Once that was finished, we thought about what demos she should sing and selected four. Aside from that, the group also liked the idea of Meihua receiving another design for English. Purpled began the design process in around late 2018 and completed it in April 2019. More details about the design will come at a later date when we are ready to reveal it! We are so excited to share more Meihua English content with you! Everyone involved with the project and demos is working very hard! Based on what we have now, we are expecting her to release in Autumn, however, this is subject to change depending on how quickly we work. For now, we hope you are anticipating her release!
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Canary's CVVCV Japanese is finally released! His voicebank is now available for download on Dropbox and Baidu Drive through his webpage! Amazingly, we have two videos to show for this post! One of them is his crossfade video. This crossfade features the three demos that's already been shown to the public in addition to a fourth! If you noticed, the third demo featured in the crossfade was a cover of Nayutan Seijin's "Alien Alien"! The full version was also released on Niconico, SoundCloud, bilibili, and YouTube! SlightlyShredded worked on the cover and art while our friend, DIVINITY, created the video for it! This uses the UST by Kyaramel and Forgetfulsubs' English translation! We sincerely hope that you all enjoy Canary's Japanese voicebank and have fun with him! We have so many interesting things to show this year, but we can't say what they are! You'll just have to stay tuned!
It's been three years since Xiao Meihua was first released on June 3rd, 2016! Time flies by so fast! And to celebrate, JAE UTAU PROJECT worked together with a variety of different people to create a PV!
The chosen cover for her anniversary was "ヒカリ" (Hikari), an original Hatsune Miku (and Hatsune Mikuo) song written by アリアP (Aria-P). This 2009 song was one of Migi's (Meihua's voice provider) favorites and he especially adored derivative characters like Mikuo! It was then decided that this song would be covered for Meihua's anniversary and to help viewers understand the lyrics or give an idea of what it's about, we used MusicalShape's translation. But this cover was a much bigger project than any other we had ever done! A total of fifteen different artists were commissioned for the illustrations, where each of them drew an illustration on a scene from the original video. For the video itself, thirteen of them were featured: oweruru, shippy_things, Preuss (JAE), Ariaera, Purpled (JAE), Winter, Niramuchu, Crusher-P, solojune, Sartika3091, Parapa-kun, Rouss-Black, TerrainAkka, and SlightlyShredded (JAE)! Hebiscus did the YouTube and bilibili thumbnail while Pearl-chan0415's was used for the SoundCloud thumbnail! Ultimately, the varying art styles were truly stunning and give such an interesting look! It was a beautiful compilation! As for the cover itself, it was tuned by Lanttu, who did an amazing job with it and was very quick! We love the cover and are thoroughly impressed with her work! SlightlyShredded also did the mixing for the cover! Lastly, the awesome person who put it all together in a PV was DIVINITY who worked quickly and did a wonderful job! It was truly a pleasure working with her in addition to everyone else! We truly could not have this done without all of them!
As a whole, this project took almost half a year, with plannings beginning around late summer! We are very much in love with the end result and we hope you like it too!
But one more thing... Clearly you can see that there's two singers in this song: a male and a female. The female is obviously Xiao Meihua, but the male is someone you may not have seen before unless:
This male is known as "Xiao Meiye" (小梅叶)! Since "Hikari" is a song that features Miku alongside her fanmade male derivative, Mikuo, we wanted to keep to this theme. To do that, we gave Meihua her very own male derivative! In late 2016, we asked a question on Meihua's defunct Facebook page: "If Meihua was a male, what would his name be?". The question was asked for fun and one person suggested "Xiao Meiye", with the last character of Meihua's name, "Huā" (花), changed to "Yè" (叶). This basically changed the name's meaning from "Small Plum Flower" to "Small Plum Leaf". It was not until 2018 that we decided to design him, especially so he could be presented in this cover. Information about him as a character can be found on the website through Meihua's webpage! This includes a biography (which is a little different compared to his originator) and his very own terms of use! Despite this, Meiye is not treated as canon, so his design and biography can be altered from user to user. However, the terms of use will remain the same as derivatives that are based on Meihua's character must abide to her rules!
We are truly pleased and proud of the final outcome of this project! It was well worth it and we once again would like to thank everyone involved, for if it wasn't for them, it would not have been completed on time!
We have so many exciting things to show soon for the JAE UTAUs! But as usual, we cannot show them to you just yet until they are ready, so we hope you are looking forward to our future plans! In celebration of Pride Month, the staff of JAE UTAU PROJECT agreed to reveal the design of Canary's Arpasing English Vivid Soft voicebank! This design was illustrated by pimienta_kast! At the moment, we don't have a set release date for this voicebank and it will be a while before we show anything more in regards to it. But nevertheless, we hope that you are all looking forward to it!
In the coming months, please expect more JAE UTAU PROJECT content! We're very excited to show everyone what's to come! |
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