We deliberately did so to encourage creative freedom for music creators, to enable them to tell their own tale without a predefined direction set by us. The idea was to give each voice a distinct personality-to easier distinguish one from another.Įven though each character is different from one and another, besides some basic facts such as age and gender, they don’t have a backstory at all?
#VOCALOID HATSUNE MIKU CREATER SOFTWARE#
The technology behind Hatsune Miku software and the others were based on the Vocaloid technology developed by Yamaha. What was the idea when you decided to put characters behind the Vocaloids Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, and the others?
Our writer Sizergyia is taking down notes. Since creating music on a computer required one to use sound banks or virtual instruments, I started selling my own sound banks to an overseas market, that was the start of it.Īt the interview with Hiroyuki Itoh. What musical encounters do you feel brought you to where you are today?įrom the days in university, I was creating music myself which allowed me to get an insight into this field. I worked as a programmer, although, I was working with things completely unrelated to the music field. What kind of work did you do when you worked at the university? One of our first vocal software creation that came to light was Hatsune Miku.īefore starting Crypton Future Media, I was working as an employee at a university. Though we might be most known for creating vocal software today, we also develop, import and sell music software, sound banks and virtual instruments such as guitar, bass, etc. During these years we’ve been researching everything that has to do with sound. The company was founded in 1995 so we’ve been at it for more than 23 years now. My name is Hiroyuki Itoh and I’m the CEO of Crypton Future Media. Please start by telling us about yourself and what you were doing before Crypton Future Media.
Get to know more about Itoh and Hatsune Miku as we dive into the past, present, and future! We took this opportunity to speak with the man behind this fantastic phenomena, Hiroyuki Itoh (伊藤博之), CEO of Crypton Future Media. The virtual idol Hatsune Miku recently held her first European tour back in December 2018.
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