So SONiKA, when did you learn Manderin?? (Also new Blog Poster)

(Image by ecapsule)

So, a Chinese company named “ecapsule” have released SONiKA in Chinese (Well, English SONiKA with a Chinese Dictionary and Chinese VOCALOID2 Editor), Mandarin to be specific. Hopefully some amazing Chinese producers (I’m looking at you Solpie) will invest in our little SONiKA, and make her beautiful songs.

_{Also, this was not written from NoNeed4Cosplay/NoNeed4Vocaloid, This was Written by Tyetyez (TYE on VO). I will be Looking after the Blog, seeing as NoNeed4Cosplay/NoNeed4Vocaloid has gone to collage. So all wish her luck. : )}

Tonio available for July 14th?

According to Zero-G site the latest male Vocaloid, Tonio, will be available for download and shipping on July 14th. The price is still $179 for downloadable version and $200 for boxed set version.

First Tonio Demo

It’s been a while since we heard from Zero-G about their latest Vocaloid, Tonio, the male counterpart for Prima. Well, luckily for us MasterVocaloid/Giuseppe has release Tonio’s first demo today.

Still no word on when Tonio is to be release, but seeing this demo gives me hope that he will be available or purchase soon.

Sonika Song Competition

(Picture done by kazamori23 )

To celebrate Sonika’s birthday Zero-G has decided to launch another competition. In this contest you will make up a song that was made for Sonika.

Rules:

To enter the competition send us an mp3 of an original song that you made for Sonika.
The song can be sung by any Vocaloid or even by you.
The song can be acapella (ie with no instruments) or fully arranged.
It can be a whole song with verses and chorus or it could just be a short melody

Prizes:

Chances to win a copy of Sonika, Prima, or Tonio (Yes, that right yo have a chance to win the upcoming new male Engloid.
Plus adding on to that your song will be arranged and produced for Sonika by professional musicians.

For more info on the contest please click here

Now you can be Big-Al!

If you’re a fellow con-goer like me, no doubt you see Vocaloid cosplayers taking up most of your average convention. Well adding to the Vocaloid cosplaying craze QQCosplay has now made a custom Big Al costume ready for order at the price of 129 USD.

The costume design is the same as on his box-art and includes his jacket, belt, pants, and arm band(no awesome headphones unfortunately). As of now QQcosplay is the only cosplay site I have seen to sell a Engloid outfit. Hopefully they will sell more in the future.

Continua: Miriam’s latest Album

(Picture taken from Piapro)

Kellplanet, a producer who has been recording in Toronto since 2002. Has recently release an album featuring Vocaloid Miriam, called Continua. Like most of Kellplant’s work, Continua features relaxing jazz music with minimal vocals.

At the moment the album is not ready for purchase, but you can listen to it a last.fm.

Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #126

In this weeks Vocaloid Ranking Big Al’s The Geisha Girl, which was produced by kihirohito-P, was ranked #79. Here’s hoping that this weird song makes it to the top 30s next week.

To see full ranking please go here.

Zero-G Interview: Dom Keefe (Vocaloid Production)

(Picture done by Crossfrown)

I’m happy to announce that I was lucky enough to get an interview with Zero-G. Under the cut the company talks about the development of Sonika, plans for their older Vocaloids, as well as talk at bit about Tonio.

Spotlight: Youtube Edition

Do you know that there are a lot of good Engloid producers…who are not on Nico Nico. I know as impossible as it seem they are actually some good Vocaloid producer right on youtube. Here I’ll give you some examples:

Daily Vocaloid Ranking #707

In the latest Vocaloid Ranking Big Al’s version of Toeto was ranked #7 with 3,218 views, 254 comments, and 230 added to Mylists. Giving the video a total of 7,428 points.

The original song was done by Luka Megurine and produced by Toraboruta-P. This Big Al cover was produced by Sasasa-P.