or Internet, is a

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company based in

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

, Japan. It is best known for the

music sequencer A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Cont ...

Singer Song Writer and Niconico Movie Maker for Nico Nico Douga, a

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website. It also develops singing synthesizers using the

Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, in 2000 and was not originally intended to b ...

4 engine developed by

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. In 2014, they were the second leading company in sound-related software in Japan, boasting a 14.0% share of the market.

Products and services

Music composition

Internet started their Vocaloid development with the first ''Vocaloid 2'' singing synthesizer

Gackpoid , is a software product developed by Internet Co., Ltd. for the Vocaloid software. His voice is sampled from Japanese singer and actor Gackt. The mascot of the software is called , after Gackt's alias name. Gackpo is sometimes referred to as Gackp ...

on July 31, 2008, whose voice was provided by Japanese international singer

Gackt , better known by his mononymous stage name Gackt (stylized as GACKT), is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. Born in Okinawa, Japan, to a Ryukyuan family, Gackt learned the piano at a young age and was raise ...

. Gackpoid includes OPUS Express for mixing vocal parts with accompaniment or phoneme data. The second product,

Megpoid is a Vocaloid by Internet Co., Ltd. Her voice is sampled by Megumi Nakajima. The mascot of the software is called (stylized as GUMI). She is also sometimes called Megpoid GUMI, or GUMI Megpoid. The name "Gumi" is the voice provider Megumi Nakaji ...

, was released on June 25, 2009 and is voiced by

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. Due to the success of

Crypton Future Media , or simply Crypton, is a Japanese media company based in Sapporo, Japan. It develops, imports, and sells products for music, such as sound generator software, sampling CDs and DVDs, and sound effect and background music libraries. The company al ...

's "Append" series, Internet announced they will be working on an updated version of Megpoid called Megpoid Extend in 2011. Yamaha's first Vocaloid called Lily was later sold via Internet's website. Internet also released Gachapoid based on the voice of

Gachapin is a TV character who appeared in the children's program ' and its succeeding series, ' on Fuji TV. He is a green, bucktoothed dinosaur and is usually accompanied by his friend , a red Yeti. Summary Jōji Katakiri (President, Japan Software ...

, a popular Japanese television character. Gackpoid, Megpoid and Lily would also be released in Taiwan.

Vocaloid 2

Vocaloid 3

Vocaloid 4

Vocaloid 6

Upcoming products

Internet's other music composers include: * ''Singer Song Writer'' (SSW) - a music sequencer * ''Mixture'' - a music composer *

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Software Instrument ''LinPlug'' series - synthesizers and samplers

Sound editing and recording

* ''OPUS'' (Optical Practical Ultimate Sound Design) - a multi-track sound designer * ''Sound it!'' - a sound editor and recorder * ''Degiroku Studio''

Video

* ''Video Save'' - a video downloader and converter for video-sharing websites * ''Niconico Movier Maker'' (NMM)

Other

* ''Mobile VIVO 1816 Save

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'' - a data backup tool for

VIVO 1816 Vivo or VIVO may refer to: Companies * Vivo (technology company), a Chinese consumer electronics company * Vivo (telecommunications company), a Brazilian mobile phone company * Vivo Class, a British company that sells a web-based rewards syste ...

References

External links

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LinPlug Virtual Instruments GmbH
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