Post by chirpyclassic on Mar 7, 2021 2:21:21 GMT
Back in 2007, the VOCALOID2 software had just been released. The first vocal to be released for the software was an English vocal module called Sweet Ann. PowerFX, the company who produced her, wanted to promote the software to a more broad audience (VOCALOID wasn't very well-known outside of the realm of music production at the time), so they made a Myspace page for her where they uploaded four tracks to demonstrate her singing capabilities.
In 2018, Myspace would suffer a massive data loss that resulted in the loss of all of the music that had been uploaded to the site from 2003 to 2015. Sweet Ann’s Myspace is still up, but the demos do not play as there is no file attached to them (and as such, I haven’t had any luck with digging around the source for the files).
According to the Vocaloid Wikia, there were reprints of the demos at one point, as well as a handful of other tracks that aren’t there. Every single link on the wiki is dead, except for the E-Capsule demonstrations (which to my understanding were produced by another company, not PowerFX), and the Wayback Machine doesn’t have them archived. I've dug around YouTube for other potential reposts and had no luck.
I figure this is a long shot, but I want to know if anyone knows where these might be archived, if they still exist at all. Sweet Ann is an important part of Vocaloid history, even though she’s often forgotten, and I think it would be really sad if these demos were completely gone.
Sweet Ann’s Myspace page: myspace.com/vocaloidsweetann
The Vocaloid Wikia page on the Sweet Ann software for reference: vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet_ANN_(VOCALOID2)
In 2018, Myspace would suffer a massive data loss that resulted in the loss of all of the music that had been uploaded to the site from 2003 to 2015. Sweet Ann’s Myspace is still up, but the demos do not play as there is no file attached to them (and as such, I haven’t had any luck with digging around the source for the files).
According to the Vocaloid Wikia, there were reprints of the demos at one point, as well as a handful of other tracks that aren’t there. Every single link on the wiki is dead, except for the E-Capsule demonstrations (which to my understanding were produced by another company, not PowerFX), and the Wayback Machine doesn’t have them archived. I've dug around YouTube for other potential reposts and had no luck.
I figure this is a long shot, but I want to know if anyone knows where these might be archived, if they still exist at all. Sweet Ann is an important part of Vocaloid history, even though she’s often forgotten, and I think it would be really sad if these demos were completely gone.
Sweet Ann’s Myspace page: myspace.com/vocaloidsweetann
The Vocaloid Wikia page on the Sweet Ann software for reference: vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet_ANN_(VOCALOID2)
