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After a long wait, Xiao Meihua's CVVChinese voicebanks are now available for both UTAU and DeepVocal! Both are using Risku's voicebank and were voiced by Migi. Ryan-kun developed both versions with some alterations from Feng Quan in regards to the UTAU version. Check out the crossfade below! There's a total of two UTAU demos and four DeepVocal demos. For UTAU, the design remains as the very original by Purpled! However for DeepVocal, she has a whole new look! The design was created by Parapa-kun and the final illustration was done by KUREiiRO! You may have seen this design before a few months ago, but we won't say where from. That's for you to find out for yourself, but we will say that like the other designs, the theme colors are based on the sky. For Mandarin DeepVocal, it's volcanic sky!
After this release, we have no further plans for Meihua at the moment. While we are interested in expanding language capabilities or voicebank styles (formats, multipitching, vocal tones) for her, at the same time, we want to focus on other characters. In the meantime, we hope that you enjoy Meihua's voicebanks until we are ready to create more for her again! We hope you are looking forward to whatever future project we have in store for you! Until next time!
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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! It's a brand new year! We hope that you've had a wonderful holiday season and hope 2021 treats you well! Along with celebrating the New Year, it also means that we are celebrating Ser0, for she was released on January 1, 2017! For her 4th anniversary, we released a new song cover. It's "Splitting Apart", originally written by MinaKi in 2016. The cover and mixing was handled by Feng Quan while the illustrations and animations were done by Preuss. This was one of Purpled's favorite songs by MinaKi and it suits Ser0's voice very well! The song is available on YouTube, SoundCloud, and bilibili. Secondly, for our latest shop update, Ser0's keychain by Melody is also on sale for 25% off, bringing the price down to $6 instead of $8. This sale will be in effect throughout January, so if you were interested in purchasing her keychain, now would be a good time to do so! We still have amazing things coming for JAE VOCAL PROJECT soon: maybe this month... maybe next month... who knows? Only time will tell!
We hope you're looking forward to what comes next!
As noted in the previous newsletter, a second original song for JD's 1st anniversary was still underway. Now, it's been completed! "Chartreuse" was written by Purpled and the lyrics are completely in a fictional language. Lyrics were provided in the description for the SoundCloud upload!
Like "Broken Mechanics", we are hoping to have a PV completed for "Chartreuse" as well. MinaKi and Purpled worked very hard on their originals and it shows!
In the next few weeks, we still have more content coming! Stay tuned for those!
Can you believe that one year ago, JD was released? We can hardly believe it ourselves! To celebrate, the team coordinated an original song just for him! "Broken Mechanics" was written by MinaKi and uses an illustration by Purpled as the thumbnail for SoundCloud. There is no video for it yet, but rest assured that we are in the process of creating one!
The song uses JD's CV Japanese voicebank, but the lyrics are in English. Check the SoundCloud description for them!
This isn't the only thing we've got planned... but you'll have to wait and see about that!
We hope that you enjoy the song! Thank you for supporting JD and JAE VOCAL PROJECT all these years! We hope to see you again soon! If you've been following the official twitter accounts lately, then you've probably noticed that a few new Xiao Meihua re-covers have been springing up on bilibili and YouTube. In addition, a VOCALOID cover of Tora☆Ouji's "Split Personality" (originally featuring Xiao Meihua) was also uploaded. These works were by Chinese UTAU and VOCALOID user Feng Quan (also known as Juoruky)! After some conversations and meeting the JAE VOCAL PROJECT crew, Feng Quan officially became one of our affiliates! The works mentioned earlier are listed below! Today, we have released the full version of one of Yu Junjie's demos: "SNOBBISM" by Neru and z'5! This song also features Xiao Meihua Sweet! The cover and mixing was done by karasuhana, with illustrations done by cakesdown and video editing by Cluemily. The UST was by Landy25N. It's also available on SoundCloud and bilibili~! Only one of Junjie's demos doesn't have a PV yet, but it's well in the works! We hope you are looking forward to it!
Next week, we have another upload to show, however, it may not be a video. Stay tuned for that! Until then! Within the last two weeks, we released two full cover songs: "Jougen no Tsuki" by Kurousa-P and "Wú Zhònglì Shàonǚ" by T-L-S and Yu Li. "Jougen no Tsuki" was one of Yu Junjie's demos and was covered by kimchi-tan using rifia's UST and was mixed by MinaKi. The song featured nikkeruu's illustration and the video was edited by Preuss. "Wú Zhònglì Shàonǚ" was covered by Migi and mixed by MinaKi. This song featured Xiao Meihua's DeepVocal Sweet vocal, in addition to her DeepVocal Natural vocal, Yi, and Pinku for the harmonies. This upload featured the original video and used the official VSQx. Both songs are also available on SoundCloud and bilibili. Yu Junjie CV Japanese was made available for download on November 13, 2020, so anyone can download and use him if they'd like!
As for Xiao Meihua CVVChinese, we are still expecting another demo before she is able to be released for public use! We hope you are looking forward to her in addition to any other project we have planned! |
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