We thought about the kinds of scenarios in which people would use this instrument, such as when singing Karaoke. That brought us to the current form of the product, in which the right hand plays the keys while the left adds expression to the song. However, from the fourth prototype onwards, we settled on developing functions focused on the concept of making VOCALOID sing. Our initial prototype was a tabletop keyboard that combined vowel keys with consonant keys to input lyrics in real time. We showcased our attempts at various events in Japan, including the NicoNico Choukaigi fair, while we gradually worked at improving our concept. Since we did not have any development budget at the time, we used discarded scrap material left lying around the prototyping rooms at work to build prototypes. Around 2010, I started out on an independent project with some friends who also work at Yamaha. The VKB-100 is an instrument that can make VOCALOID “sing” lyrics input in advance, following a scale played on its keyboard. An over-the-shoulder keyboard that extends the potential for VOCALOID performance.
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