V Flower

V Flower

V4 Flower package
Developer(s) Yamaha Corporation
Gynoid Co., Ltd.
Initial release May 9, 2014
Stable release
V4 Flower / July 16th, 2015
Development status Active
Operating system Windows
Platform PC, Mac
Available in Japanese
Type Vocal Synthesizer Application
License Proprietary
Website Homepage

V Flower (ブイフラワ) is a Japanese female Vocaloid software by Yamaha corporation for Vocaloid 3, the mascot is known as "Flower (フラワ) ".

Development

The Vocaloid is a female vocal with a powerful, androgynous voice designed to specialize in rock music. v flower has some distinctive traits within the vocal not found in many past VOCALOIDs. The vocal allows her to have the reserved female tone needed for slow rock songs yet have the heavy sound needed for faster and more upbeat rock. She debuted in HoneyWorks' song "Inokori Sensei," which was uploaded on April 17, 2014.[1]

The download version of the voicebank was released on May 9 and for physical release in the summer of 2014. A physical release was later confirmed to be for the 16th of July, 2014.[2]

Additional Software

Gynoid Co., Ltd. later made an update to Vocaloid 4 called "V4 Flower". The update contained improvements to the overall vocal plus access to the new "growl" ability. Early sales of Flower occurred at Vom@s 32.

Characteristics

On her official website flower is described as a 'kuudere'.

Flower's V4 design was originally used by the artist, Miwasiba, in July 2014. The appearance was originally done as fanart by the artist and was a "shota" version of flower.[3] The official flower Twitter account noted that the new Vocaloid 4 design was the "short haired" version of flower, while the original Vocaloid 3 version was the "long haired" version of the same character.[4] The official Twitter account said that the design was to reflect how flower herself is now "perfect flower", having both a "pistil" (long haired version) and "stamen" (short haired version).[5] Due to confusion caused by the comment, with responses thinking flower was a hermaphrodite, it was noted by the account that flower has a "pistil" (female reproductive organ). The Twitter account also noted the change of hairstyle did not change her nature.[6] The illustrator also confirmed flower is still a girl on the Vocaloid Facebook page and reference sheets, despite adopting a "shota" design.[7][8]

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