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Vocals

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• At an optimum range of D5, both Megurine Luka and SONiKA jointly hold the title of second highest VOCALOID2 vocal.

• Luka's vocal does not collapse on fast passages when used in V2. This is owed to her strong bass.

  • When imported into VOCALOID3 or 4, she becomes prone to collapsing and skipping notes at higher BPMs.

• Luka suffers from sounding tight-throated on higher pitches. She is much more prone to tonal collapses on higher notes as a result.

• Altering the GEN factor higher than GEN 96 makes Luka head towards the collapse of her vocal. At GEN 100, her treble will fail completely, making decreases of volume at this point more difficult.

• Being the first case of a bilingual voicebank to exist within VOCALOID, it came with a number of first time issues. 

  • One of which is the notable weakness of one language over the other. In this case, her English is considered weaker than her Japanese. 

  • The pronunciation within her Japanese vocal is slightly more solid and precise than her English.

  • Her Japanese bank is more quiet than soft.

• Both voicebanks have an issue with quietness and can mumble at times.  

• Luka is one of the smoother VOCALOID2 voicebanks and is not as choppy sounding as her predecessors in the CV series; Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len.

• Both optimum range and tempo are identical for both English and Japanese, and as a result, they have relatively the same capabilities.

• Her vocal has a habit of collapsing during pronunciation of ⟨SA⟩ related lines.

• She can produce many high quality tones.

• She can not produce a voiceless ⟨U⟩ or ⟨I⟩ in VOCALOID2. This issue is fixed in VOCALOID3 and 4 with the [*_0] phoneme.

  • Even though [*_0] works with any phoneme, [M_0] and [i_0] produce the highest quality results. These results can only be achieved when as a short note before a pause or in between ⟨K⟩, ⟨S⟩, ⟨T⟩, ⟨H⟩, ⟨F⟩, ⟨P⟩, ⟨SH⟩ and ⟨CH⟩.

• ⟨Z⟩ automatically defaults to [dz] instead of [z].

• ⟨J⟩ automatically defaults to [dZ] instead of [Z].

• She’s capable of producing glottal stops in VOCALOID3 and 4.

• Luka was intended to be a moody and soft sounding vocal and was voice acted.