Crypton Future Media

Crypton Future Media K. K. (Japaneseクリプトンフューチャー· ·メディア 株式会社, Kuriputon Fyūchā Media Kabushiki - gaisha, Eng. Crypton Future Media, Inc.) is a media company based in Sapporo, Japan. It develops, imports and sells music products, such as the sound generator software, sampled CDs and DVDs, sound effects and background music collections. The company also provides services such as online shopping, an online community and services for mobile phones.

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Crypton began in 1995 with the import of audio products and participated in development, import and sale of sampled CDs and DVDs, sound effects and background music as well as collections of synthesizer applications. The biggest business partner in Japan are other music stores, computer stores and software suppliers.

The company licensed its software following companies:

• Publisher of video games, Konami, Sega, Sony Computer Entertainment, Namco and Nintendo
• Public and private broadcasters (television, radio and cable ) as NHK
• Computer software and hardware companies, such as Apple, Dell and Microsoft
• Instrument makers, such as Roland or Yamaha Corporation
• Public institutions, such as local governments, the Japanese Ministry of Defense and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology " MEXT "
• Educational institutions such as secondary schools, universities and vocational schools.

Crypton also operated a number of Japanese mobile websites, mostly for i-mode from NTT DoCoMo, au by KDDI and EZweb of Yahoo! Keitai from Softbank Mobile to distribute ringtones, sound effects and linguistic ringtones.

An entertainment company in the field of mobile phones in Israel, Eurocom Cellular Communications, is a worldwide partner of Crypton.

2010 Crypton Future Media has been given as number one in the field of sound -related software known, with a market share of 21.4 %.

Vocaloid products and services

Crypton is best known for the production and sale of synthetic language software for computer music. Their products use the Vocaloid, which was developed by the Yamaha Corporation. She was also commissioned to make English Studios locate and contact you to obtain recommendations for the English version of the Vocaloid software. The company published in 2004 and Meiko Kaito in 2006. Publication of the first Character Vocal Series Hatsune Miku, which uses the upgraded Vocaloid 2, the level of awareness of Crypton increased enormously. The second and third characters of the Character Vocal Series Kagamine Rin and Len are and Megurine Luka. Because the popularity of the said Vocaloids grew, Crypton launched the site Piapro to upload fan-made content as well as its own music label " karent " to sell the songs from Vocaloid.

For the Vocaloid products the company chairman Hiroyuki Itō from the Japanese government was awarded the Medal of Honor on the Blue Band, with people who have made ​​outstanding contributions to the improvement of public welfare and education, will be rewarded.

Vocaloid products

Kaito was sold as the only version that used the Vocaloid 1.1 engine; the previous Vocaloids were sold as Vocaloid 1.0, with which he was delivered. However, he needed the extra Vocaloid 1.1.2 patch to work on the Vocaloid 1.0 engine can. Later, a patch was released to update all Vocaloid Vocaloids on 1.1.2. There were also new features of the software, although there were differences between the output results of the engine. Although Kaito and Meiko were Japanese and sang under Japanese phonetic system, the main interface of the English and Japanese Vocaloids in English was written.

Because of the success to portray a character on the packaging of Meiko, the concept was transferred to her successor Kaito and later Vocaloids to encourage creativity; but originally had no Packaging design view to represent the respective Vocaloid. Although Meiko achieved good sales, Kaito was the only one on the sale failed initially because there was little demand for male voices until shortly after Kaito's publication. However, finally, the sales went to the height and Kaito won shortly after the Nico Nico Douga award for the second best selling in 2008. Allegedly For a discussion is currently an update of Meiko and Kaito. Several upgraded linguistic words for Kaito has already been recorded. April 2011 it was confirmed that six records for Kaito were taken. Two of them were dropped back, and the remaining four were still used; one has already reached the alpha version. The character voices ( Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin / Len and Megurine Luka ) were used by the singing performances of their voices encoder, but echo, power and voltage were also added at Kaito.

Vocaloid 2 products

August 31, 2007 Hatsune Miku Crypton issued. The second character of the Vocal Series was the first dual Vocaloid Kagamine Len Kagamine Rin and a Japanese man and a Japanese woman. On 18 July 2008, the upgraded edition of Kagamine Rin and Len was released, called " act2 ". For a period of time could the users who had bought the old version, get the new version free of charge. Published on 18 June 2008 at the official blog of the company beta example songs that use the new version. On the development of disc is an entirely different software was used that mimics the original version of Rin / Len in any way. It gives the user the possibility to combine either the old or to use the new Stimmenart or both. Crypton Future Media has finally completed the sale of its old Kagamine Vocaloids, so that it is no longer possible to acquire it.

On April 30, 2010 an upgraded version of Miku called Hatsune Miku Append, edited; it contains a set of six different tones of Miku's voice: Sweet ( " contains many sighs, sweet whisper " ), Dark ( "balanced, slightly melancholy " ), Soft ( " gentle and graceful " ), Light ( "lively, strong and bright " ), Vivid ( " clear and distinct as in speech exercises " ) and Solid ( " stiff and tense "). Crypton Future Media also released Kagamine Rin / Len Append on December 27, 2010.

The third product of Cryptons Character Vocal Series is Megurine Luka, the first bilingual (bilingual ) Vocaloid.

Crypton works ( Stabd: 2010 ) on a " Project if ... " with an enigmatic, childlike voice. In Ido e Itaru Mori e song Itaru Ido Japanese rock group Sound Horizon in addition to Hatsune Miku, a young, male -sounding prototype was " Project if ... " is used, which is only known under the name " Young März_Prototype β ".

Vocaloid -3 products

As of 2013, Crypton started with the release of Vocaloid products based on the third generation of the software.