Hatsune Miku

This article is about the character. For the video game series which features Hatsune Miku, see Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA. For other uses, see Hatsune Miku (disambiguation).
In this Japanese name, the surname is Hatsune.

Hatsune Miku
Developer(s)Crypton Future Media
Initial releaseAugust 31, 2007
Stable release
Hatsune Miku NT (New Type) / November 27, 2020
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS
PlatformPC
Available in
  • Japanese
  • English
  • Chinese
TypeVocal Synthesizer Application
LicenseProprietary (Vocaloid voice/software)
Creative Commons BY-NC (character design)[1]
Websiteec.crypton.co.jp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01_us

Hatsune Miku (Japanese: 初音ミク, [hatsɯne miꜜkɯ]), sometimes called Miku Hatsune, officially code-named CV01,[2][3] is a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media and its official mascot character, a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails. Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol, and has performed at live virtual concerts onstage as an animated holographic projection (rear-cast projection on a specially coated glass screen).[4]

Miku uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2, Vocaloid 3, and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technologies, and Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a standalone singing synthesizer editor. She was the second Vocaloid sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the 2 engine. The voice is modeled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.

The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first (初, hatsu), sound (音, ne), and future (ミク, miku),[a] thus meaning "the first sound of the future",[2] which, along with her code name, refers to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series" (abbreviated "CV Series"), preceding Kagamine Rin/Len (code-named CV02) and Megurine Luka (code-named CV03). The number 01 can be seen on her left shoulder in official artwork.

  1. ^ "For Creators". Crypton Future Media. Archived from the original on June 27, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "About Hatsune Miku". Crypton Future Media. Archived from the original on January 1, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  3. ^ Comptiq (September 10, 2013). Hatsune Miku Graphics: Character Collection CV01 - Hatsune Miku Edition: Comptiq, Various, KEI: 9781926778747: Amazon.com: Books. UDON Entertainment Corporation. ISBN 978-1926778747.
  4. ^ "Japanese pop star Hatsune Miku takes the stage -- as a 3D hologram". Los Angeles Times. November 10, 2010. Archived from the original on May 10, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
  5. ^ "Miku". Behind the Name. Archived from the original on October 26, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2010.
  6. ^ "Kanji Card – 未 – NIHONGO ICHIBAN". Archived from the original on May 21, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  7. ^ "Kanji Card – 来 – NIHONGO ICHIBAN". Archived from the original on May 13, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2022.


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