Vocaloid Keyboard is a physical

MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and re ...

keyboard with a built-in

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 ...

synthesizer. The commercial product as a

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was released in December 2017.

About

The Vocaloid Keyboard was designed using the VY1 vocal. It is part of the eVocaloid range, a LSI sound generator called the "NSX-1" source chip which can generate 30 sounds of midi. For VY1, it uses the NSX-1 chip "eVY1". The first prototype was showcased at INTERACTION by

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, March 2012. The commercial prototypes as 37 key keytars with three colours; black, white and pink were officially showcased at several events in Japan, 2015. The keytars were able to be played at three Joysound's Karaoke in Japan in 2015. In 2015, green

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 ...

version was also showcased at Think MIDI and purple

Yuzuki Yukari , sometimes referred to as Yukari Yuzuki, is a Vocaloid character produced by Vocalomakets and distributed by AH-Software. She is also voiced by Chihiro Ishiguro. Development A Japanese female released for the Vocaloid 3 engine by AH-Software ...

version was featured in niconico live broadcasting by VOCALOMAKETS. The first commercial model ''VKB-100'' was released in December 2017. VKB-100 won Good Design Award 2018. It was also selected as GOOD DESIGN BEST 100.

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