Hatsune Miku

Rocker

This development [and it's further development] might signal the end of playing music as we know it:

http://www.tnt-audio.com/edcorner/august18_2.html

Scary*











*Disclaimer, I have no idea if this is real or a spoof.  You decide which.

interstellar

spoof hopefully

Paul_C

Sporky

Rocker said:

This development [and its further development] might signal the end of playing music as we know it:

Or it might not. 

Paul_C

Sporky said:

Rocker said:

This development [and its further development] might signal the end of playing music as we know it:

Or it might not. 

. . . but it might ?

fandango

Rocker said:

This development [and it's further development] might signal the end of playing music as we know it:

http://www.tnt-audio.com/edcorner/august18_2.html

Scary*











*Disclaimer, I have no idea if this is real or a spoof.  You decide which.

It's only the singer that's holo.

There's a live band with the full complement of gear.

Panic ye not.

Sporky

Let's hope so. 

guitartango

I have messed around with Vocaid2, takes ages to create something decent.

Modellista

Rocker said:

*Disclaimer, I have no idea if this is real or a spoof.  You decide which.

I wouldn't say it was total spoof, but there was something a bit fake about the live video.  Are we to believe that they can spin that out for a full performance?  The audience were all waving their glowsticks in a very enthusiastic and regimented fashion - their arms will get tired very quickly.  And the hologram doesn't do much - no walking around of course, and very little expressiveness overall.  Of course the Japanese are probably receptive to this sort of thing, but I can't see it catching on in the West any time soon.

John_A

Really wasn’t very good was it

flying_pie

This has been around for years. It's not a threat to music. It's another example of Japanese culture that is big there but not as much anywhere else. 

It's a real girl providing the voice of the character. It's also the basis for the Korg Miku Stomp pedal which samples her voice so that people can "play along" and provide her vocals with guitar (as much as the latency of the pedal allows).

It's also pretty much the same idea as Gorillaz where there is a virtual band of manga characters but real musicians behind it.