Vocaloid4 Hatsune Miku V4X

I love the voicebank and what can be done with it. The product is absolutely amazing. There are a few drawbacks, though. It is a bit confusing in the beginning finding out everything that you have to do. Most of the instructions are in Japanese, so if you don't read Japanese, I recommend downloading Google Lense and using the live translate function, or just searching the steps online. After it's set up, it's pretty easy and intuitive if you've used a DAW with VSTx.

I finally bought Miku as my first vocaloid that i own as a box and she 100% works! I recommend you to buy Hatsune Miku V4X! or her Bundle because she is easy to use! :)

Okay so,I bought her digitally a long time ago and just saw that there’s not a single English review,so I guess I’ll be the first- This comes with Hatsune Miku V4X,which includes her Original,Solid,Dark,Soft,and Sweet voicebanks. Her Original and Solid voicebanks are capable of voice color options (soft and power.) She is compatible in Vocaloid 3 and up. As a Cryptonloid,her program includes Piapro Studio (a VSTI,) and Studio one 5 Piapro Edition,which is pretty neat,since I didn’t even know it came with Studio One. Keep in mind that Piapro is not a stand alone program,so you’ll have to use it in a DAW such as Reaper,Studio One,Fl Studio,etc. I did not know this as Miku was actually my first vocaloid so it was a bit frustrating for me until I found out. Something that is annoying with Piapro is it likes to crash A LOT,so make sure you save your progress often. (I got so fed up with it crashing that I bought VOCALOID5 editor.) Piapro also has its own file type for sequences (ppsf),but you can export it as a VSQX if you’d like. You can also import VSQ (VOCALOID2,) VSQX (VOCALOID 3 and 4,) and MIDI files,and export it likewise. For the interface of Piapro,it’s actually not complicated at all,I found it pretty user friendly if you’re familiar with any vocaloid interface. Piapro DOES support cross synthesis with your voicebanks but it was a bit complicated for me to find out. When in your singers tab,there should be an expand arrow on the window,and it will say what voicebank it is currently cross synthesized with. (For example,Miku Solid > Miku Dark.) In order to change the voicebank that its being crossed with,you right click on the voicebank and click edit singer parameters,and choose the voicebank you want. Voicebank wise,she is very nice,clear,and smooth. Piapro has an “accent” feature that you can make notes more pronounced,and how open the constants are,etc. I personally didn’t mess with it much because I didn’t understand how to use it correctly. It also has a voice release effect,which I also don’t like using since you have to lengthen or shorten the note for it to end at the right time,so I highly recommend putting a note at the end of the note you want your breath at and change the phoneme to “h.” It doesn’t sound good all the time,however. I highly recommend also watching tutorials on YouTube and looking at posts on how to use Piapro and Vocaloid in general if you’ve never used it before! I used UTAU for a while before vocaloid so I had a general idea of how certain things worked. I hope I put enough information,I’m half asleep writing this but these are the things I find most important to note!

I love Miku soooooo much, and I am really happy to produce songs with her voice using VOCALOID. The experience with the editor is great, and I just cannot stop!