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Long time, no see! We've got a flurry of news to share here! While we are mostly active on our Twitter accounts, with how things have been going lately, if we don't post within 30 days of the previous post, our account could get shut down. We will try to make an effort to post major updates on our website as well to avoid potential loss of major news. First up, we have a new item in store: an acrylic standee featuring the entire JAE VOCAL PROJECT cast, made in celebration of our group's 5th Anniversary! It stands at around 2.5 inches and the width is around 6 inches. Each of the characters use their default outfits. This standee was designed by Mian; be sure to follow her for more amazing art! Unlike the other pieces of merchandise, this standee will only be available for a limited time and will not be restocked. The pre-order will run until July 1, 2023 at 12 AM USA Eastern Time. But as a special offer, here's what you'll get when you order a standee:
Next is in regards to the MMD models for Xiao Meihua, Ser0, Canary, and Xiao Shancha. We were aware that the download links for them were long broken. After speaking with Orahi, we were given permission to upload the models through our dropbox. That said, the links to the models have been updated on those characters' pages. Please be aware of any changes to his Terms of Use and to follow them accordingly! You also may have noticed that we've shared two new demos for Ser0 featuring her update known as "Ser02"! Ser02 will feature some new individual voicebanks, so we hope you look forward to those! Check out these two demos by Purpled! The first is a cover of "Chimera" by ATOLS, with the UST by half a head. The second is a cover of "Ponzi" by Kyoe. This uses Ser02's Appends "AWARE" and "PASSIVE". Hope you're looking forward to what we have in store for Ser0! Closing this out, May 15 is kEna's birthday! This year marks 3 years since he released on UTAU! We've commissioned Reishichi for his official illustration. Here he is among nature, looking as handsome as ever in this peaceful location! We hope that you enjoy everything we had to show lately! Things have been slowing down for a while now, but rest assured, we are still working on new stuff! Be sure to follow our Twitter to keep track of mini updates like anniversary artwork and songs!
Thank you for all your support! Until next time!
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Happy 2022 everyone! It's been a little while since our last post and this is our first one of the year! This year, Ser0 already turned 5 on January 1, which gives us such a nostalgic feeling! However, we didn't have anything prepared for her this year. Instead, we began to change the profile picture of our Twitter account to represent each vocal in their own anniversary month (Canary will be February and Shancha will shift to March since they shared the same month), that way, they'll still have a little something even if no new songs or releases were uploaded. Speaking of Canary and Shancha, this month, their keychains (along with Xiao Naidong) are at a discounted price on our official Ko-Fi shop, so be sure to check it out if you were interested in adding them to your collection! Now for the main point of this post, we released a new cover song for Canary's anniversary, "Dancer in the Dark", which was originally written by fatmanP. The cover was done by Juoruky, the illustration was by Jelly, and the video editing was by neirina. Planning was done by Mina Moonrise and Migi. The cover is also available on our SoundCloud account and Migi's bilibili account. What's more, we are releasing a new CVVC Japanese voicebank for him known as "Voltage". This is a 4-pitch voicebank along with an optional falsetto pitch that was voiced by Mina Moonrise and oto'd by Juoruky, with sample cleaning by NEUTROGIC. This voicebank uses Kimchi-tan's reclist and Canary has a new illustration by Wakiobake! You'll be able to download it on Canary's webpage via Dropbox and Baidu Drive starting today! We hope you enjoy Canary's new content, and if you choose to use him, we hope he brings you great joy!
Thank you very much for all your support! Until next time! A long while ago, Migi provided Miis of the JAE VOCAL PROJECT cast for the 3DS and WiiU. Now, with the new re-release of Miitopia for the Nintendo Switch, Migi provided updated Miis with the new wig and make-up styles available in this version! Like the previous versions, these are his own interpretations of the characters and is not meant to be the official canon. It is entirely optional to use them and everyone is entitled to creating their very own if they would like to! If you are interested in using any of them, use the following code to import them: 8GGJBT. To watch them in action, Migi has began streaming on Twitch and YouTube. All videos are archived on his new YouTube Channel that's dedicated strictly for streaming and non-vocal synthesis use. Check it out here!
Affiliate characters are also present in the game, but will not be accessible. Like JAE VOCAL PROJECT, these are only Migi's interpretations and are not official. There are some who are currently not available in the gameplay but will be in the future. The only affiliate who is distributed is Reicheru Nintone. Her owner actually made the Mii available on Twitter! We hope you like them and enjoy using them yourselves if you'd like! Today marks Xiao Shancha's 2nd anniversary and we've got a new song for you! What's more, it's not featuring one of her existing voicebanks: it's a demo of her upcoming Mandarin voicebank! The song is "千里邀月" by 纯白P and 千月兔. It was covered by MinaKi (using jerrybowang's UST) and uses the original video. The demo is also available on SoundCloud and bilibili! Shancha's Mandarin voicebank was recorded in the summer of last year and was developed throughout the fall by Ryan-kun. This language is planned to be made available for both UTAU and DeepVocal, with UTAU using Shancha's default design by Purpled (as it was always intended to be for Mandarin) and DeepVocal using a different "boxart". While we are hoping to release this in 2021, it's possible that Shancha may need re-recordings and adjustments to her oto. In addition, we do have other projects to try to finish and release (such as Xiao Meihua's CVVChinese update). Because of these reasons, it's possible Shancha could be pushed back to 2022 or later.
In addition, because it's still February, the discount to Canary's and Shancha's keychains are still ongoing on Storenvy! In our haste, we would like to make a correction to the previous news post. Xiao Naidong, Shancha's male derivative, would also be receiving this discount as he would be sharing the same birthday as Shancha. We are only halfway through February, so if any of these three characters interested you, now would be a good time to get one while they're still discounted! Thank you all for supporting JAE VOCAL PROJECT and for sticking with us for so long! We can't wait to show you what else we have coming up! Until next time! There's so many things that are happening for February 2021! For starters, Canary and Xiao Shancha's 2nd anniversaries are taking place. Canary was released on February 2, 2019 and Shancha released on February 16, 2019. Because of this, throughout the whole month of February, customers can purchase Canary's and Shancha's keychains for 20%! If either character was someone you wanted to collect, now would be a good time to do so until the sale expires in March. For Canary, we haven't prepared an anniversary song for him. We do have some interesting plans coming, but they're not ready to be revealed just yet! Instead, we commissioned a piece from E.via and he came out stunning~! For Shancha, we do have something planned for her anniversary but it will not be revealed until February 16. In the meantime, her MMD model was just released by OSformula! The team collaborated with kimchi-tan (tuning) and Starchaser-C (video) in creating the MMD cover video to promote the model! MinaKi worked on the mixing! The song is "Gokuraku Jodo" which was originally performed by GARNiDELiA. Shancha's model is available for download now and the site can be accessed from her own webpage. If you plan to use her, please be sure to follow OSformula's terms of use. Remember that his rules may override our own (for example: if JAE VOCAL PROJECT allows NSFW, but OSformula does not, his rules are in effect, not ours). Lastly, we are sad to announce that Purpled, the manager and voice actress of Ser0 (JAE-02), as well as a longtime illustrator and designer of many of the cast members, has left JAE VOCAL PROJECT. She is interested in creating more of her own works, so she is still in touch with the voice synthesizer community, however, she ceased JAE VOCAL PROJECT activities. We strongly encourage that you continue to support her in her endeavors and we wish her luck! Due to this, the website has been updated to place Purpled under "Former Members" along with bajucy.
If you are curious, Ser0 is still part of JAE VOCAL PROJECT and will still receive merchandise if we come up with any new ones, but she will no longer be receiving any updates or new voicebanks. We hope you still like her as she is and look forward to any plans we may have in regard to songs or items! It's still hard to believe that it's January and that the first week had already flown by! After January comes February, which means that Valentine's Day is coming up as well! With that in mind, JAE VOCAL PROJECT decided to create new merchandise to reflect the holiday: Love Confessions designed by nekocopicat! This line consists of nine keychains: the seven cast members (Meihua, Ser0, Canary, Shancha, JD, kEna, and Junjie) and the two officially recognized derivatives (Meiye and Naidong)! Each of them have a unique pose and expression while wearing their default clothes, except for Meihua and Canary. Meihua is wearing her Arpasing English outfit while Canary is wearing his Arpasing English Vivid Soft outfit (the voicebank is not released at this time). These acrylic keychains are also holographic, giving a shine at every angle you turn it! To add onto the theme, the clips are shaped as hearts. To order these keychains, visit the JAE VOCAL PROJECT Storenvy located in the navigation bar of our website! If you would like to see these as future stickers, buttons, and other goods via Redbubble, let us know and we'll see what we can do for that if possible!
Like with the previous keychains by Melody, only Meihua, Ser0, Canary, and Shancha will come with the free 25mm buttons by winter. If the seven main cast members (excluding Meiye and Naidong) were purchased, then the postcard by oweruru will be distributed. Both of these are available while supplies last: once they are gone, they will not be restocked! We hope that you like these new keychains! It's a wonder that we can finally add more to the shop compared to some years ago and we're genuinely pleased to share these cute ideas with you all! We have new merchandise available on Storenvy: 4 double-sided keychains with front-side glitter epoxy! These feature the first characters of JAE VOCAL PROJECT, each with a distinct design: Xiao Meihua (DeepVocal), Ser0 (3rd Anniversary), Canary (UTAU Japanese 1.0), and Xiao Shancha (DeepVocal). The art was illustrated by Melody (@faynatical). A few specials are offered for these keychains:
Please keep in mind that due to COVID-19, shipments may be delivered later than usual. In addition, for overseas customers, please refer to this website to see if shipping services are available from the USA to you!
Want to see these as stickers, buttons, and more on Redbubble? Well, we will be making these available later. From now on, keychain designs that are also perfectly compatible for Redbubble will be made available after about at least three months since their initial debut, but you can always purchase them as keychains after that unless it's been decided to retire them. We have many more merchandise ideas circulating, but we can't show them to you just yet. For now, we hope you like these keychains by Melody! JAE VOCAL PROJECT has an official Redbubble shop now! There, purchased goods are produced by the vendor and directly ship to you! For now, you'll see the familiar designs by winter in addition to a few doodle samples from Migi! More designs are to come! As for our Storenvy, it was initially closed due to COVID-19. However, since Redbubble can produce buttons, we are retiring the ones that were available through Storenvy. Our Storenvy shop will only serve to offer products that cannot be produced by Redbubble (keychains, different shaped buttons, etc.). The shop will be reopened once we have new items available! To access Redbubble, hover over the "Shops" tab and it will appear in a dropdown menu!
Thank you for reading! We hope you enjoy the products available!
A new update for Xiao Meihua's Chinese voicebank is in the works! Almost a year ago, we've released her CV+VV voicebank for UTAU, but with the arrival of DeepVocal, things needed to change. Her CV+VV voicebanks could not be ported to DeepVocal without facing potential issues, so it was decided that she would be using Risku's CVVChinese reclist instead!
Her first demo for this update features her Natural DeepVocal voicebank. It's a cover of "心上秋" by litterzy, with the lyrics written by 冉语优. The cover was done by Migi and the mixing was completed by Mina.Ki. The harmonies were sung by JAE VOCAL PROJECT's Canary and Xiao Shancha, in addition to affiliate Tora☆Ouji's Pinku and a guest vocal: Yi. Yi is a male Mandarin Chinese and Japanese DeepVocal from Dream Vocal Project, and was added as a needed Mandarin harmony track. The demo features the original video and the description lists the entire staff for the song, so please check it out when you can! It's available on YouTube, SoundCloud, and bilibili!
This update is expected to have four DeepVocal demos and two UTAU demos in all! We hope you are looking forward to them!
As for any other Chinese voicebanks, we hope to have Xiao Shancha and Yu Junjie use this reclist as well. Their original CV+VV voicebanks will be scrapped in the meantime. We have yet to record either vocalist. There are so many interesting projects coming up soon; many of which are JAE VOCAL PROJECT related! Please consider following the team members on their social medias and media platforms so you don't miss a thing! Yesterday, we uploaded a new video showing Canary's MMD model in action! The video uses Mina.Ki's cover of "Alien Alien" from last year, StarChaser-C had been so kind to help render the video for this demonstration! The proper MMD credits are all in the video description, so please view it if you wish to know who did what! That's all we have for now! Until next time!
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