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The digital design on Miku's skirt and boots are based on synthesizer program colours, and the bars represent actual bars within the program, following Crypton's ideas. She now shares her twin tail distinction with other characters like Sailor Moon (who won best Twin Tails back in the 90s period). On June 22, 2012, Hatsune Miku's twin tails even earned her the title of the Twin Tail which best represented the 2000s, marking her the best set of Twin Tails from the dawn of the 21st century. Her pigtails have since become an iconic part of her design. Miku was originally intended to have a different hairstyle, but after trying out pigtails, KEI thought they were more suitable. It took him more than a month to complete the commission. KEI said he could not create an image of a 'singing computer' at first, as he did not even know what a 'synthesizer' was. Crypton also provided KEI with Miku's detailed concepts, however, Crypton said it was not easy to explain what a 'Vocaloid' was to him. When KEI illustrated Miku, he was given a color scheme to work with (based on the YAMAHA synthesizers' signature blue-green colour) and was asked to draw Miku as an android. Her name in Chinese is 'Chūyīn Wèilái' (Simplified Chinese: 初音未来 Traditional Chinese: 初音未來). Her codename of 'CV01' means 'Character Voice 01'. It thus means 'the first sound from the future.' Her name was based on her concept of that when a sound is first spoken. The name was chosen by combining hatsu ( 初, 'first'), ne ( 音, 'sound'), and Miku ( 未来, a personal name that shares its spelling with the word for 'future').

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Ĭrypton had the idea to release Miku as 'an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost.' Etymology While Crypton is focusing on their own program, they are still in collaboration with YAMAHA and will continue to sell VOCALOID products in parallel to the Piapro Studio editions. On August 31, 2019, Miku received her first voicebank outside of VOCALOID, that being Piapro Studio with her NT release.

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She received a VOCALOID4 update to her Japanese and English voicebanks in August 2016, as well as a Mandarin Chinese voicebank in September 2017.

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There have since been numerous installments, such as additional voice libraries dubbed ' Append', as well as an upgrade for the VOCALOID3 engine, which contained an English vocal release. Her voice is provided by the Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita (藤田咲, Fujita Saki). She was the seventh VOCALOID overall, as well as the second VOCALOID2 vocal released to be released for the engine.

She was initially released in August 2007 for the VOCALOID2 engine and was the first member of the Character Vocal Series. Hatsune Miku (初音ミク), codenamed CV01, was the first Japanese VOCALOID to be both developed and distributed by Crypton Future Media, Inc.