Hatsune Miku. She’s a Japanese pop diva who’s just started to play massive stadium concerts to sold out crowds. Her hair is blue, she dresses like Sailor Moon, and she’ll only appear in concerts via a 3D ‘hologram’. Oh, and did I forget to mention that she’s completely fictional?
However... if you read that entire article you'll read that this started off as a PC desktop application in which users can write their own music to be sung by one of the virtual avatars. The software uses a voice synthesizer developed by Yamaha known as Vocaloid. This uses a human voice as base which it then synthesizes into the notes that need to be sung. There's a random demo available of a male voice. That tech is pretty spiffy and I can very much see the appeal of it. Just a shame that this is all dressed up in a Japanese sailor moon manga thing. This tech must be awesome if it's implemented in one of the Rock Band or Singstar games.
sounds like a more advanced version of autotuning to me.
also,
using iZotope’s real-time pitch detection and pitch shifting middleware, Rock Band 3 provides players with the option to enable vocal effects commonly used in the music industry, assisting players to sing on key more easily with pitch correction and bringing the tools that pros use into the living room
I think I would rather go see this than Justin Bieber. At least it's visually entertaining even if the music is just as deafeningly bad. Maybe they should use this for a Gorillaz concert.
Oh, and derp! JAPAN!
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Memphis wrote:what the fuck did i just watch
ps: glowsticks lol. and you'd kinda think what with all the jazz going into animating a jailbait scantily clad mangaslag to sing a song, they'd at least give her a halfway decent singing voice.
obsidian wrote:I think I would rather go see this than Justin Bieber. At least it's visually entertaining even if the music is just as deafeningly bad. Maybe they should use this for a Gorillaz concert.
Oh, and derp! JAPAN!
That is beyond creepy...
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obsidian wrote:I think I would rather go see this than Justin Bieber. At least it's visually entertaining even if the music is just as deafeningly bad. Maybe they should use this for a Gorillaz concert.
Memphis wrote:
how so? having a hologram perform a concert is a bit more advanced than the electronic vocals. i think it's fair to criticise the vocals that support all the visual whizzbangery for being shite
Not really. If you follow the link they provided, it's a really old trick. The only major innovation for the "hologram" is the thin, transparent film it's being projected on.
It's not a 3d hologram, it's a video being projected on a diagonal piece of film.
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