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 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:26 pm
((Welcome to the very first long in what i hope will become a character database , i will be posting one every couple of day's in order of release date, so first up its Leon))
character name: Leon
Developer :Zero-G
Release date : January 15, 2004
March 3, 2004 (Japan)
Gender : Male
Character Item : Tulip
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:28 pm
LE♂N and L♀la were the first Vocaloids released, being released for the Vocaloid engine. He is a "virtual male soul vocalist modeled on a real professional singer" and was created for English.
Leon was released along with fellow Vocaloid, Lola, by Zero-G Limited.
They were one of the exhibits at the Zero-G Limited booth during Wired Nextfest and the Vocaloids won the 2005 Electronic Musician Editor’s Choice Award. 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.
Leon did not become popular with the public until a relatively unknown Nico Nico Douga user posted a video of him singing "True to my Heart". This featured Leon in an unusual looking fan design which soon struck the funny bone of Nico Nico users and the video eventually received over 50,000 views.
For a period he, along with Lola 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 three may also get a redesign in the future.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:04 pm
Usage for MusicEdit Usage for Music
Leon is mostly used for techno, pop and digital music, but was sold as a soul singer. He tends to end up sounding effeminate at times (just as how some describe Lola as sounding masculine) because of how the engine removes the greater extent of his masculine tone. He, like Lola, also sings with a British accent.
Due to his dated voicebank, he often has a noticeably robotic sound. Users accept his and Lola's voicebanks digital sound, Leon's strongest aspect is that perfection is not necessary when creating a song using his voicebank. With much editing he can produce realistic sounding songs. Other users play on his robotic sounding voice, making no attempt to hide it. Leon also has been used in the most varied of ways amongst the English Vocaloid era voicebanks and he has been shown to be a highly versatile Vocaloid. Out of Lola and Leon, Lola was considered the better vocal of the two. 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.[
He was originally sold using the Vocaloid 1.0 engine, but Zero-G provided a link to update the program on their website (via his product page) that would update the Vocaloid program to Vocaloid 1.1.
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:28 pm
Personality
Leon seems to be a man well in-tune with his emotions and wears his feelings on his sleeve. He is always true with his feelings and dose not agree with hiding them, because of this he is a blast to watch when interacting with other characters. Even though he speaks his mind he is never rude or malice and will oven go out of his way to make someone feel comfortable. Due to his easy going nature he is extremely easy to get along with ,especially with Kaito the two seem to have a deep rooted friendship.
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