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 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:13 pm
Developer :Zero-G
Release date :January 15, 2004
Gender :Female
Optimum genre : Techno, trance
Character Item : Frying pan
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:16 pm
Lola was released along with fellow Vocaloid, Leon, by Zero-G Limited. She received much better reviews than her male counterpart, and they were exhibited at the Zero-G Limited booth during Wired Nextfest and the Vocaloids won the 2005 Electronic Musician Editor’s Choice Award, despite mixed reviews on both. At the time of their release, Lola and Leon had no rival software to contend with and were the first Vocal synthesizers to be released of their nature, however, Leon and Lola failed to impact the American market due to their accents.
For a period she, along with Leon and Miriam, were not on sale due to the lack of interest in synthesized voices. This lack of interest was owed to the sudden change in indie music trends. After increased interest began to occur in vocaloids and renewed demand, Zero-G began reselling Lola, Leon and Miriam from their own website via their virtual shop. According to Zero-G, the 3 may also get a redesign in the future.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:17 pm
Unlike Leon, Lola has not been used as much, so information amongst fans is limited compared to many other vocaloids. She is mostly used for techno and digital music despite being sold as a soul singer. As with Leon some users do not attempt to hide her robotic voice and likewise also with Leon, perfection is not necessary to achieve results due to the acceptance of the dated voicebank. She however has a slight synchronization problem compared to Leon making her harder to use then he is, VSQ files used for other Vocaloid era voicebanks may need adjusting when uploaded into Lola.
Her biggest advantage over other female vocaloids is her strong, raspy voice, resulting in her having the deepest of the current female voice banks. However she is often commented to sound masculine (ironically, at times Leon can sound effeminate) because of how the vocaloid engine handles her voice as it tends to remove the greater extent of her feminine tone. And as noted, she also sings with a British accent.
The voice Lola is capable of potentially producing once editing has been applied has earned her a small fan following amongst Vocaloid users and fans. The voice she is capable of producing has a distinct firm and mature tone and while other female Vocaloids also carry a mature tone of voice, the tone Lola carries has remain exclusive this far to her voice only. While she does not hold the higher notes as well as Miriam, she in turn controls the lower notes much easier. However, most agree Lola is the hardest to use without the forementioned editing and in its default state, is viewed as the least attractive sounding of the three English Vocaloid voicebanks, despite being considered the most prominent pronounications of the trio. Although Miriam shared the same engine version as Leon and Lola, there were bugs and glitches present in Leon and Lola that were later fixed in Miriam's release and they are not as smooth as she is. Out of her and Leon, Lola was praised as the better overall vocal when they were released by reviewers.
A Japanese electropop-artist Susumu Hirasawa used Vocaloid Lola in the original soundtrack of "Paprika" by Satoshi Kon. Susumu Hirasawa announced that "If users can edit her perfectly, she can be a professional (singer). She can sing in soprano or whatever if they edit her overwhelmingly" on his blog. Since Susumu Hirasawa did not reveal which Vocaloid he used for a quite some time, except the fact it was a female vocaloid, many fans speculated it was Crypton's, Meiko. However, later he mentioned in a magazine interview that it was Lola.
She was originally sold using the Vocaloid 1.0 engine but Zero-G provided a link to update the program on their website (via her product page) that would update the vocaloid program to Vocaloid 1.1.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:22 pm
A Japanese electropop-artist Susumu Hirasawa announced that he used a female vocaloid in the original soundtrack of "Paprika" by Satoshi Kon on his blog. Since Susumu Hirasawa did not reveal which Vocaloid he used for a quite some time, except the fact it was a female vocaloid, many fans speculated it was Meiko. However, later he mentioned in a magazine interview that it was Lola.
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:43 pm
Personality:
Unlike Leon , Lola struggles with her emotions and has a hard time communicating them to others, which can make her difficult to work with. This can also cause her to get frustrated and blow up on people, from time to time, but beneath all that she has a wonderful heart.
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