Vocaloid Keyboard
Physical MIDI keyboard with built-in Vocaloid synthesizer
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Vocaloid Keyboard is a physical MIDI keyboard with a built-in Vocaloid synthesizer. The commercial product as a keytar was released in December 2017.[2]
| Vocaloid Keyboard[1] | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Yamaha Corporation |
| Dates | prototype 2012 - 2015, commercial product 2017 - |
| Price | ¥32,400~39,800 (Japanese Yen) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Polyphony | Vocaloid: monophonic, Instruments: 48 |
| Input/output | |
| Keyboard | 37 keys |
| Left-hand control | Pitch Bend Wheel, Expression Wheel, Transpose Button, Phrase Button, Memory Button, Skill Button, Octave Button, Loop Button |
| External control | mobile app |
About
The Vocaloid Keyboard was designed using the VY1 vocal. It is part of the eVocaloid range, a LSI sound generator called the "NSX-1" source chip which can generate 30 sounds of midi. For VY1, it uses the NSX-1 chip "eVY1".
The first prototype was showcased at INTERACTION by Information Processing Society of Japan, March 2012.[3]
The commercial prototypes as 37 key keytars with three colours; black, white and pink were officially showcased at several events in Japan, 2015.[4][5][6][7][8][9] The keytars were able to be played at three Joysound's Karaoke in Japan in 2015.[10]
In 2015, green Megpoid version was also showcased at Think MIDI[11] and purple Yuzuki Yukari version was featured in niconico live broadcasting by VOCALOMAKETS.[12]
The first commercial model VKB-100 was released in December 2017.[13] VKB-100 won Good Design Award 2018.[14] It was also selected as GOOD DESIGN BEST 100.[15]
