
The Hatsune Miku Studie Glad BMW Z4 competed in the 2008 Super GT season. Although Good Smile Company was not the first to bring the anime and manga culture to Super GT, it departs from others by featuring itasha directly rather than colorings onto vehicles.įile:Studie GLAD BMW Z4 2008 Super GT qualifying.jpg It has featured Vocaloids such as Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len, and Megurine Luka, printing some of the sketches by artist Kei and reporting the latest news on the Vocaloids.Ĭrypton has been involved with the marketing of their Character Vocal Series, particularly Hatsune Miku, which has been actively involved in the GT300 class of the Super GT since 2008 with the support of Good Smile Racing (a branch of Good Smile Company, mainly in charge of car-related products, especially itasha (cars featuring illustrations of anime-styled characters) stickers. Japanese magazines such as DTM magazine are responsible for the promotion and introduction for many of the Japanese Vocaloids to Japanese Vocaloid fans. Yamaha themselves do maintain a degree of promotional efforts in the actual Vocaloid software, as seen when the humanoid robot model HRP-4C was set up to react to three Vocaloids-Hatsune Miku, Megpoid and Crypton's noncommercial Vocaloid software "CV-4Cβ"-as part of promotions for both Yamaha and HRP-4C at CEATEC in 2009. Though developed by Yamaha, the marketing of each Vocaloid is left to the respective studios.
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Crypton had the idea to release Miku as "an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost." Marketing Ĭrypton released the first of their "Character Vocal Series", Hatsune Miku, on August 31, 2007.

The pitch of the samples was to be altered by the synthesizer engine itself, and was constructed into a keyboard style instrument within the Vocaloid 2 program.
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These different samples all contained a single Japanese phonic which, when strung together, would create full words and phrases.


Hatsune Miku's voice was created by taking vocal samples from voice actress Saki Fujita at a controlled pitch and tone. After acquiring the Vocaloid 2 speech synthesis engine from Yamaha, Crypton Future Media began to develop their third Vocaloid.
