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It’s funny to watch people reaction to miku for the first time😂

Miku version is the original version of the song, cool thing about miku is that almost all the songs are fan made and anyone can make a song for her with vocaloid program and people have gotten careers thanks to starting out with miku, she been popular ever since she was created in 2007, with bunch of videos games with project diva series, plenty of commercials, figures, she been part of a lot of products, been in concerts since 2009,

Hatsune Miku is a vocaloid that was created back in 2007, basically a virtual singer (She is also virtual idol) what you actually hear is the Hatsune Miku custom voice (using the computer voice synthesizer software VOCALOID) she was very popular, she has concerts with live band and a hologramic version of her dancing and singing.

It is not that strange that Wagakki Band would cover Vocaloid songs. Asa, the bass player, was a Vocaloid producer. He is most known for the song Yoshiwara Lament, another song Wagakki Band covered. It is one of the happiest sounding sad songs you will ever hear. Looking at the lyrics will change the way you see that song.

Senbonsakura was originally written and composed by Kurousa-P aka WhiteFlame, a Vocaloid producer, using the Hatsune Miku software. The second version you heard is closer to the original recording. It's worth noting that this is such a popular song that it's even been covered by foreign artists such as Lindsey Sterling.

This is a classic Vocaloid song

I'm so happy that your first Hatsune Miku song was Senbonzakura, and Magical Mirai always gives good produced live concerts to us 💕 Brazilian sub here!!!

Waggaki Band's first album was almost entirely made of Vocaloid covers, but Senbonzakura is easily their most popular song. Incidentally, there is some speculation that one of the members of BAND-MAID chose her stage name and twin tail image based on Hatsune Miku. As far as I know it was never confirmed.

Welcome to the world of Japanese hologram concerts. It's a bit wacky, but also really freaking cool.

Ahahahah I should have known you'd do them both at once. Thank you for this, I really enjoyed your reaction and thoughts on both version. Sorry for not preparing you for the original version but I have to say that your complete and utter confusion was pretty fun to watch. Man, Hatsune Miku, where to start. I've never seen her name translated as "White Flame" before, that was weird*. Its intended meaning is "First Sound of the Future". (*Edit: White Flame is the name of the producer, derp. Usually he went by Kurousa-P, which is what I've known him as.) "Vocaloid" is the name of the rendering engine developed by Yamaha back in the early 2000's. One of the first vocalsynth programs out there, it's now one of many and more than a hundred voices between them all. It was used by Crypton Future Media to make a couple of voices marketed at producers, but they didn't sell very well. So for the next one, they came up with a mascot character to go along with the voice and she was an overnight hit, thus making Hatsune Miku the first "virtual idol'. Other people already mentioned that she's a singing synthesizer. How it works is that you get a voice actor and record a sample of every sound in a language. Not just the basic phonemes but combinations of them. A really comprehensive list can be around 4,000 samples, but you can get away with around 1500 for a basic library. Anyway, that goes into a "voice bank" which is basically like a MIDI library and used in a similar way. The editing software is your standard MIDI piano roll, where you draw or record/import the notes, but then it lets you type lyrics over them. Then there are all sorts of controls for adjusting intonation, attack and release, breathiness, stuff like that. With default settings it sounds pretty awkward and it can take a /lot/ of work to make it sound good (with my attempts, she sounds like she has a head cold). For the concerts they have a plexiglass screen that goes across the stage, with multiple projectors in the back. (Technically, the image isn't a hologram, but that's what everybody calls it anyway and that's fine.) The performances are recorded ahead of time by motion capture actors and then tweaked by the animators. So the band is playing along to a backing track of the vocals and the image, but they have to act like they're with a real singer. Not to mention they have to be note-perfect every time, because the recording isn't going to wait for them to catch up if they make a mistake. I think they do a pretty good job. So that's the gist of it (lol huge comment) but it doesn't even begin to touch the cultural and community aspects the came along with this. Maybe I'll leave another comment on that later, hahahah. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and welcome to the world of Hatsune Miku and vocalsynth!

Its the other way around though, its a band backing up a computer generated program. xD. Love Miku so much, shes my introduction to japanese music when I saw her on 2008. Miku has been touring yearly and shes arguably the most popular pop star in japan, and shes a virtual idol, xD. She has appeared in a few commercials and even went to a tv show in the US as a guest

So, from the perspective of the fans, you know how you find at least a couple of songs from a given artist that really speak to you? Really reach your heart and let you know that someone else knows how you feel? Imagine that but all of those songs coming from one voice. That's what it's like with Hatsune Miku. All the feelings of all the artists who wrote songs with her voice, all channeled through this one person who doesn't really exist, but somehow always knows how you feel. Everyone knows she isn't a real person, and yet there's the strong feeling that she is someone who will never judge you, will always accept you. The effect is very powerful and it's one of the things that makes her so popular. Also just one aspect of the vocalsynth community that I find absolutely fascinating. From the artist side, she's freedom. You remember when you were too shy to sing in front of people, right? Like most of us it probably took some doing to get past it, but of course there are those who never do. If someone can't sing or is too shy, but they have these words they want to share with the world, they can use vocalsynth to do it. All these people who's feelings we would never have known about can now have those feelings reach us. It literally gives a voice to people who might not otherwise have had one. Crypton Future Media (aka CFM) who puts on the Magical Mirai and Miku Expo concerts, doesn't produce any of the music themselves. It's all taken from the community (with consent of course, and royalties too). Sometimes they hold a contest and the winner's song gets added to the show. The guy who won the contest for 2018 was a college student from a small city on the border of Mexico and California. So you don't have to be a well known or popular producer to have your song chosen, you can be anyone. How cool would it be to see Miku singing your song on stage in front of thousands of people? There are other things that I can't articulate right now, but hopefully this gives you an idea of the cultural impact Hatsune Miku and vocalsynth have had.

"Hatsune Miku phenomenon" is a very interesting research subject in the history of the Internet. I researched about "What is Hatsune Miku?" in the past. I'll leave you with my research findings that I commented on earlier for Mr.B. Please have a look when you are free 😁 Ha ha, for those who don't know what Hatsune Miku is, it will look very strange and stupid. It is said that she has more than 100,000 songs, so it is truly a mix of good and bad. Wagakki band "Senbonzakura" is also her representative song. A long time ago, I was surprised and asked, "What the hell is this?" and I researched about her. Curious Mr. B felt the same way, didn't he? She is probably the most successful Japanese singer in the world and holds large concerts in various cities around the world every year and sells them all out (she also participated in a tour of Lady Gaga). "Hatsune Miku" is just an application, but through her, many people have spent time creating tens of thousands of songs, music videos, various types of CG data, and their own programs to dance with her CG. It is known among researchers as a miraculous phenomenon in which people work together based on the technology of the Internet to give life to Hatsune Miku, which has no reality. Also, since the early days of KZfaq, it has been said that it has the largest number of uploaded content. I don't know much about it either, so at that time, I will leave some related links (such as programs introduced in various countries) that I studied Hatsune Miku is certainly a very interesting phenomenon. Hatsune Miku - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku Who (or What) Is Hatsune Miku? The Making of a Virtual Pop Star www.shutterstock.com/blog/who-or-what-is-hatsune-miku-the-making-of-a-virtual-pop-star Hatsune Miku - The Japan Times www.japantimes.co.jp/tag/hatsune-miku/page/2/ The Culture Show episode 15: Miku Hatsune on the BBC Two kzfaq.info/get/bejne/it2mdM2B3JOsmnU.html Attack of the Show: Miku Hatsune on G4TV kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idCKirWrvKu3gIk.html Vocaloid Hatsune Miku, the worlds virtual diva（Eng sub） kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rqiKgs-a1czOm4U.html Nikkei Japan Report 33: Miku Hatsune & Vocaloid kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptinlLKautXSgaM.html The Gadget Show World Tour: Miku Hatsune on Channel 5 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLmcfaSllpqplYE.html Daily Planet 2013-05-17: Miku Hatsune on Discovery Channel Canada kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mriAhbWLr6y6YWQ.html 20131113 M6 1945: Miku Hatsune on the French national evening news kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aceqg6WYu9WoZZc.html Tara Knight, an associate professor at the University of California who discovered the "Hatsune Miku phenomenon" in its early days, published a short documentary project on her research on Hatsune Miku called "Miku Mentality" in 2012. kzfaq.info/love/e7-5lNeNzHqBBCZ8J9milA One of Japan's Biggest Pop Stars Isn't Human (by Bloomberg,2017） kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLZyhc1hx6uZZas.html MIKU hatsune Toyota ad kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j-Ceg5Znnte5g6M.html Google Chrome : Hatsune Miku kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g62kZZie25qRYoU.html

Him: How does this works? Me: It's simple, "CREATIVITY"

H Miku also has other hologram buddies who come on stage and do duets with her , harmonising and dancing. They are life size to the match the live band . No hotel rooms needed on tour : ) She can converse with audience as well.

Hatsune Miku, also called Miku Hatsune, and officially code-named CV01, is a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media and its official anthropomorphic mascot character, a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails. Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol, and has performed at live virtual concerts onstage as an animated projection (rear-cast projection on a specially coated glass screen). From Wikipedia

How this works is: "Crypton" (the owners of Hatsune Miku) would either hold an event called Magical Mirai (which is the main event they have EVERY year but only in japan), Miku Expo (which she would tour around the world), Miku with you (they only have those in China) or Snow Miku (only have those in Christmas in japan) and how they do her concerts is there will be an actual audience and an actual band and there will be a glass wall (you can use anything but the glass wall make it have a more 3D effect) and there will be 3-7 projectors to project the vocaloids live. And how they perform is they would get real dancers and use motion capture for the movement's and the animators will animate the physics (the movement's of the clothes and hair) and how they sing is there will be a recorded voice to make them look like singing and not lip-syncing (cause sometimes there might be some technical difficulties during the concert but that rarely happens). And that's how they do the magic.

Remember guys, Hatsune Miku almost performed at Coachella.

OMG it's so cute that you just discovered Hatsune Miku and thus, vocaloid 🖤🖤🖤 I really enjoyed this reaction, keep it up Wave! Rock on Po! 😎🕊️🖤🤘

I've been getting into miku recently, there was an artist called wowaka who wrote some of the more introspective and existential songs for her... 🤔 Using her? Wowaka passed away a couple of years ago, and this performance has some of his trademark moves motion captured to Miku. The guitar is really well done, her hands and fingers where they should be, and even a capo in the place wowaka had it set. The song is kinda indie math rock. Worth a watch, especially for musicians. The live shows are spectacular. And go back and watch again and just listen to the crowd. Their interaction and energy is amazing. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rpiWhbZisq69fIU.html

The entire band is incredible but THAT FLUTE PLAYERS ENERGY

miku is a synthetic singer! theres many other vocaloids, but shes certainly the most famous. because of the synthetic nature of vocaloids, you arent bound by one performers skill (or whats physically possible to achieve), so vocaloid producers can really push the boundaries of what a voice can sound like and produce some really unique effects. for example, if you listen closely to this song, youll notice there isnt really any time to pause for breath for the singer, because it wasnt written with a real person in mind. its deceptively difficult to sing, you need some killer breath control! the singer from wagakki band did a fantastic job keeping up. i highly recommend checking out more vocaloid songs, theyre incredibly unique!

ARIGATO for the good good choice!! There are many other songs of HATSUNE MIKU. Please watch "RAY"(live, MV) by BUMP OF CHICKEN feat. HATSUNE MIKU. BUMP OF CHICKEN is very popular in japan. This live performance is better than MV. This song is so catchy!!

This band rocks, their use of traditional instruments is what I like best.

I've watched the Wagakki Band video so many times, yet never noticed that flute-flip at 3:16 until Wave pointed it out. Even then I needed to rewatch that part five times to see that flip because I COULD NOT take my eyes off BENI 😍

As a confirmed Maidiac, Wagikki is my second favourite band. The same blend of huge talent, great showmanship and creativity. And Beni is a world class shredder guitar or not.

Lindsey Stirling and Wagakki Band have both covered "Senbonzakura." I'd love to see a live collaboration!

This is a song that gets covered a lot, everyone from Marty Friedman to Aldious, to The Wagakki Band. Check out the Marty version, it's ripping.

Please react to more vocaloid songs and go down the rabbit hole! Vocaloid songs are in all genres, styles, and many languages!! I've never seen a community so creator based it's amazing and wonderful to be a part of!!

Wagakki band has 6 Hatsune Miku songs on their first album "Vocalo Zanmai.

If you know what she is singing it's even better.

Beni Beni Beni! "A Thousand Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) Wagakki Band's first album was All Vocaloid covers and this was my first time experiencing a Vocalid artist (thanks Elf-Inflicted), I have heard so much about them but had never checked any out.

Miku is awesome - both the virtual and the real (Maid) one ... also love Wagakki Band!

Can you do more Hatsune Miku live concert reactions pls 🙏 🙏🙏

Thank you Wave and Elf-Inflicted! Awesome band! There was a comment about your voice being 10x too loud. It was only maybe 10% too loud. Given that you are doing this offsite, it is just fine. I liked both version, but I have to say I definitely like the Wagakki Band version much more. Cleaner, more natural sound. The Wagakki Band vocalist is awesome!

Japanese Wikipedia : Hatsune Miku & Senbonzakura Hatsune Miku (Hatsune Miku) is a vocal sound source for voice synthesis and desktop music (DTM) released by Crypton Future Media, and its character . She is 16 years old, 158 cm tall and weighs 42 kg . She is a vocal sound source compatible with Yamaha's voice synthesis system "VOCALOID", and can create vocal parts and back choruses with synthetic voice by inputting melody and lyrics. She can breathe and enter strength. She is also set up with a female virtual idol character in terms of making her voice more realistic by giving her body to her voice. Hatsune Miku is characterized with the concept of "futuristic idol" . The origin of her name is "Hatsune" from "First Sound" from the future, and "Miku" from "Future". The publisher, Krypton, allows almost free use of character images as long as they are non-profit, and it is taking the form of promoting not only the use of singing voices by users but also creative activities using characters. "Senbonzakura feat. Hatsune Miku" (Senbonzakura featuring Hatsune Miku) was written, composed and arranged by Kurousa P in 2011, and released on the Internet using the voice synthesis software "Hatsune Miku" for vocals. Known as one of VOCALOID Hatsune Miku's popular VOCALOID songs (VOCALOID songs) centered on the Internet, she won first place in the "Favorite Vocaloid Song Ranking" survey conducted by RecoChoku in August 2012.

i think you'd really like the 2016 toronto vocaloid concert, specifically Miku ft. miku by anamanaguchi

I loved your wholesome reaction to miku and vocaloid as a first! Please react to more videos and songs involving the whole fandom!! I’d recommend more live songs, wowaka songs are a mass favorite! :)

Miku's choreography is motion capped. Miku's voice is a sampled voicebank using Vocaloid software to make her sing. Her performance is projected on a screen, sometimes like a Pepper's Ghost effect. She herself is a very high definition 3D rendering. The projection is probably using lasers. I'm not sure what computer they use to play her performance.

Be very careful when entering the world of Hatsune Miku. It's a very deep rabbit hole some might not find their way back out again. I'm talking from experience. 😅

Many great composer made epic songs with Vocaloid. Hope one day you can try them =)

Amo el Universo Vocaloid 💕💕

I think Machiya is playing a Sago Giraffe guitar in this video. Hatsune Miku is an anime vocaloid that does live concerts using a hologram. The voice is generated by a computer.

Hatsune Miku was the opening act for Lady Gaga on the ARTPOP Ball-tour in 2014. At the time, it didn't resonate well with the audience but hey, it takes time.

idk if its cuz im in the fandom, but i have no clue how someone who spends time on the internet hasnt heard of hatsune miku at this point.

Awesome and unique as Wagakki Band are, seeing them playing in front of a huge arena crowd isn't shocking the first time around. But I daresay seeing the same with Hatsune Miku would be at least a little shocking. I would guess no one in Japan was all that shocked when Babymetal hit the scene a few years later...

Hmm, how to explain Hatsune Miku? Well, she is 16, she is 15' tall, she is a Vocaloid, so she doesn't really exist...but her band is very real. BTW, Senbonzakura translates to One Thousand Cherry Trees. It is a Taisho Era song written for Hatsune Miku by Karousa-P, so Wagakki Band's version is actually a cover of this. Wagakki Band did an entire album of Vocaloid Nico Nico songs.

Watch the official Wagakki Band MV of Senbonzakura, much more heavy than the live performance. enjoy...

It's actually a 3d projected moving character and not a hologram. The voice of Hatsune Miku is from the Vocaloid and the original voice who provided the samples is voice actress Saki Fujita. Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) means 'The first sound of the future'.

10Q (thank you) for the content.

大好き💕

Wagakki band started as a cover of band of Vocaloid songs. So a live band covering songs by synthesized performers. Senbonzakura is well known in Japan. On KZfaq you can see 'street-piano' pianists doing covers of it. That's another interesting Japan phenomena, pianos in public places like train stations and the lobby of the Tokyo government building. Harami-chan on KZfaq has a made a career doing that on KZfaq (has CDs, DVDs, and a book as a result). Here she is in the Tokyo government lobby playing Senbonzakura. The paint-job on that piano has to be seen to be believed: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZldjJlm0dW6epc.html

Research Vocaloid music. Wagakki Band does quite a few Vocaloid covers and they’re all amazing.

Vocaloid is a software that was relased in 2007 by yamaha. Since then, it has become a sort of indie music scene. For a couple hunge and a lot of time (I have tried, it is very very very difficult to even make a single word, for each syllable needs to be perfectly tuned.) you can have your own singer. Then project DIVA came out basically making the characters, which all have personalities. Miku is the most popular, however, there are many vocaloids. Miku is the meme. My fav headcannon is the male singer Kato, who is fucking stupid. There is also UTAUloid which is a freeware version and my fav Saki AI (it sounds so human like it is uncanny). That being said, a lot of vocaloid songs tell very depressing stories, and others are super cute.

As of the time I watched this video, it has 39K views!! Miku's number! 😄

Yuko kicking serious vocal ass in front of 16,000 or so fans at Yokohama Arena.

It's call valcaroid it's sound that the computer make.

What's strange is that if you watch the full show at one point you forget that she's an hologram. Only in Japan.🤨

Re the original version - only in Japan.

i think this roughly translates to 1000 cherry blossoms (Senbonzakura )

next hanafurumai from wagakki band please 👍👍👍

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Mikuちゃんもっと見てーーーーー！！

Nice miku

Su reacción cuando vio a Miku XD XD XD 🤣

Can I request for next reaction??please reacting to galneryus song angel of salvation,i will be happy if you reacting that band,,,they are japanese neo classical band,the best ever

please check Paradox Live

Great reaction mate Try more Hatsune Miku And try more Babymetal too :))))

Technically the vocaloid could have been recorded by a human through a vocoder but I don't think that has ever been confirmed for Hatsune Miku. In Kanji Hatsune Miku means white flame so if you put the Kanji into a translator software that is what you'll get instead of the Kanji converted into English alphabet like other proper Japanese names that are hard coded into the translator software. Another example is the group Hanabie. If you put their Kanji name into a translator you get cold flower back.

Great video. But you could maybe try to not make your voice 10x louder than the music haha. In order to not have my ears explode everytime you said something, I had to turn volume so low I could barely hear the music.

Id totally recommend watching an entire vocaloid concert kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLJljK6LnsvHoJs.html

Yes... miku is a hologram

White Flame is the artist, they created the song. Hatsune Miku is a Vocaloid, a voice synthesis program that you can purchase and make sing lyrics. Miku does not produce any music, she is an instrument. I say this because some artists have left the Vocaloid fandom because people kept crediting the Vocaloid instead of the artist.

Sorry if we ruined your camping fun, and somebody, pull Mr Wave out of Miku's world, he's gonna fall into Miku's digital realm,

UK made the first hologram concert... its nothing new actually

i reccomend you watch the vampire by deco *27! miku sings in this one and its really nice

React indonesian band tip x selamat jalan shit thanks

Yes a hologram and no not a real person. I hope you are less confused.