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 ...

, 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 Musical note, note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or O ...

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

Yamaha Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate with a very wide range of products and services. It is one of the constituents of Nikkei 225 and is the world's largest musical instrument manufacturing company. The former motorcycle d ...

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

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

'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, 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 * VST 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 vivo 1816'' - a data backup tool for VIVO 1816

References

External links

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LinPlug Virtual Instruments GmbH
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