The blue-haired, 16-year-old Hatsune Miku, one of Japan’s biggest pop stars, is completely computer generated.
The catch, of course, comes when Miku’s likeness is used for commercial purposes, in which case Crypton - and, often, a third-party label - cashes in.Īs Crypton’s CEO, Hiroyuki Ito, explained while speaking through a translator last week: “Once you use Hatsune Miku, that’s our property.” Under Crypton’s Creative Commons license.
HATSUNE MIKU VOCALOID PODUCER FOR FREE
Users have released over 100,000 songs using Miku’s “voice” and have uploaded over 170,000 videos to YouTube, many of which are - software costs aside - created for free by their users (The latest version of the software, Vocaloid 3, costs about $163 on Crypton’s website.) To date, Which so-called “creators” can use to compose music that Miku then sings - have skyrocketed. Since Miku made her debut in 2007, Crypton’s staff has quadrupled in size, and sales of its Vocaloid software. Miku’s parent company, the aptly named Crypton Future Media, is insistent that, unlike the renderings of the departed Tupac Shakur at Coachella and Michael Jackson at this year’s Billboard Music Awards, its character
That’s because, unlike the other musicians who have visited the Ed Sullivan Theater over time, Miku is a humanoid - an animated character created in Japan who “sings” through a vocal synthesizerĪnd appears onstage in 3-D projection form. A recent appearance on Letterman’s show by the singer Hatsune Miku, however, left the host dumbfounded. The virtual Japanese pop star Hatsune Miku performed on the “Late Show with David Letterman” earlier this month.Īs a fixture on late-night television for more than 32 years, David Letterman has rarely been at a loss for words.
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