Kenmochi then moved on to describing how the engine worked. A Tiny VOCALOID3 Editor was included with the sound banks in order for users to test the voices, since a standalone sound bank couldn’t generate sound. However, with VOCALOID3, YAMAHA started handling the release of the newly updated VOCALOID3 Editor, while third-party developers handled the sound banks. Prior to VOCALOID3, YAMAHA only licensed its software out to third-party developers. The first VOCALOID products came out in 2004, followed by VOCALOID2 in 2007 and VOCALOID3 in 2011. Development had started in March of 2000 and the first prototype was shown at Musikmesse 2003 in Frankfurt. With his brief introduction done, he then gave an overview of VOCALOID it’s a concatenation-based singing synthesizer developed by YAMAHA in order to create intelligible, smooth and natural voices with an easy-to-use environment. His panel was originally scheduled for Saturday, but it had to be moved to Sunday for this reason.

With the audience seated in the room, Kenmochi began his presentation by introducing himself, saying he had just flown in from Japan after giving a concert the previous day. Lastly, he gave three short demonstrations on how to use the software, introduced Job Plugins and then finally gave his philosophy on the use of VOCALOID. He then laid out the workflow for creating a new VOCALOID sound bank and then pointed out new features in VOCALOID3. Kenmochi gave an overview of VOCALOID and described at a high level how the VOCALOID synthesis engine actually worked under the hood. Hideki Kenmochi, one of the developers at YAMAHA behind the VOCALOID sound synthesis engine, flew to Los Angeles to give an overview and short tutorial of VOCALOID software at Anime Expo 2012.

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