Initial release April 25, 2011 Operating system Available in Japanese | Development status Active Platform PC, Mac | |
Stable release VY2v3 / October 19, 2012 | ||
VY2 is a Japanese masculine vocal developed by Yamaha Corporation and distributed by Bplats, Inc. to act as a "standard" vocal for Vocaloid. It has the codename of "Yuma". It was originally released for the Vocaloid 2 engine.
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Development
"VY2" means "VOCALOID YAMAHA 2". Like VY1 before it, it is has no official avatar, although producers using the software have used various interpretations over time. It was also specified to be a "young masculine" voice. VY2 itself was released on 25 April 2011. According to the details of the VOCALOID, the VOCALOID is an attempt to make the vocals sound more realistic and stable. It was the youngest male vocalists sampled at the time of recording and during development Japanese masculine Vocaloid 2 vocals Camui Gackpo, Hiyama Kiyoteru and Utatane Piko were compared during production to help develop VY2.
Additional Software
Though created to head Yamaha products like VY1, VY2 has seen less releases.
In October it was released for the iVocaloid iOS app. VY2 was due for release on VocaloWitter in the summer of 2011 and VY2's version would have adjusted the VY1 version for compatibility and performance reasons. However, it has never been released.
The first major update to the software was released on October 19, 2012 for the Vocaloid 3 engine. The release contained two vocals "Normal", which was an update of the original vocal and "Falsetto". Once imported into Vocaloid 4, the vocals would be able to also make use of the cross-synthesis feature ("XSY"). Due to the popularity of the vocal a second re-release of the vocal was released titled "VY2v3 SE". In 2013, an additional re-release titled "VY2v3 Neo" was released as the Mac version of the software.
Both the VY2v3 vocals would be released for the Mobile Vocaloid Editor, as separate releases for purchase.
VY2v3 ad V3 Gackpoid were also the focus of vol.4 of the VOCALOID-P data series.