After that day, I've been playing guitar almost every day in order to get better. I also posted a guitar video every week and it pays off really well. My viewers have increased a lot ever since then. If not for Sayuri, I would not have this much motivation to do this. Then one day, Sayuri suddenly came into my room,
"I'm coming in! " she said.
"Whoa you startled me. What do you want? " I asked.
"Hehe sorry. Oh right, have you check your channel recently? "
"No why? "
"You should check it. "
"Alright fine. "
And so I opened my PC to check on my channel. To my surprise, my channel, that only have eight videos at the moment, is now has over 100 subscribers and my first video that I posted, which the video of me covering my favorite song, has over 1000 views.
"Well that is surprising. " I said.
"Right! And I think you can be more popular if you keep this up. " she said.
"Well I'm not sure about that. In order to get more popular, I think I need to do something more impressive than just covering songs with guitar. "
"Hmm... Oh I know. Why don't you do a singing cover? I've seen a lot of people do that. " she said.
"That's definitely a no. " I immediately refused that.
"Ehh why not? "
"I'm not that good at singing. " I said.
"Oh really? Well when I think about it, I've never heard you sing before. " she said.
To be honest, I do have a thought to do a singing cover but I don't have confidence with my singing. I'm not gonna say that to her. Or else she's gonna push me into singing even more.
"Oh I have another idea. " she said after a while.
"Hm? "
"Why don't you do create your own song. " she said.
"Create my own song? " I asked her back.
"Yeah. And then you use a vocaloid software to sing for you. "
"Vocaloid? What is that? " I asked in confusion.
"You don't know vocaloid? You like music but you don't know vocaloid. That's weird. " she said.
"Well yes I've never heard of that. So what is it? " I asked her again.
"Well to put it simply, vocaloid is just a robot singing. " she said.
"Huh?? " it makes me even more confused.
"*sigh* here let me show you. "
She immediately type something on my keyboard. As soon as she press enter, bunch of songs coming out and most of them have 'Hatsune Miku' on the title. And every video on the screen have a cute character design as the thumbnail.
"Here, this is vocaloid songs. " she said.
"Whoa! There's a lot of them. "
"Wanna listen to it? " she asked.
"Yeah sure. " I said.
"Alright, I'm gonna play my favorite song. " she said.
Then she clicked on the video that has over 50 millions views. The name of the song is Bitter Choco Decoration by Syudou. As soon as the song started, I was blown away by the music. It was definitely different from anything that I ever listen to. It's very unique. Then the vocals came into picture. I immediately understand why she said just a robot singing. This 'Hatsune Miku' literally sounds like a robot. To be honest, I could not understand a single word that she said. But other than that, it was very well done song. I immediately fall in love with it.
"So how was it? " Sayuri asked for my opinion.
"Actually, it's not bad. Maybe I could try this." I said.
"Right! I think you can pull this off. " she said.
"But how do I make a vocaloid song? " I asked.
"Hmm that's a good question. I also don't know. " she said with a smile and a thumbs up.
"Nice."
Then I went to google and search how to make a vocaloid song. Then I saw a website that features Hatsune Miku and a lot other vocaloid voices. I clicked on the website. I read a bit of the content then I scrolled down. Then I saw something that I wasn't expecting.
"Wait what? " I said in disbelief.
"What? What did you found? " she asked.
"You see this? " I said while pointing on the monitor. She looked at the monitor then she also have a shock look on her face. Why you might ask? Well after I scrolled down to see more I saw an icon that says 'add to cart' then I looked next to the icon. It's the price for Hatsune Miku's voice pack. I already surprised by the fact that I need to pay for the voice pack but the most surprising thing is the price. It cost around 19,000 yen just for one voice pack.
"Wait is this for real? " she said.
"Seems like it. " I said.
"Let's look something else. " she said.
Then I clicked on another option and almost every one of them cost around 10,000 yen and above. But then, I saw something even more surprising. There is a package that includes 6 of the most popular vocaloid that only cost 23,000 yen.
"Hey this is not a bad deal. Right Sayuri. " I said.
"Yeah, you can save a lot by purchasing this package. " she said.
"Alright I'm gonna purchase it. " I said.
"Wait do you have the money? " she asked.
"I'm gonna use my new years money. I never touched those money anyway. " I said.
"I see. Then let's purchase it then. "
Then I made the payment using online payment. It was a lot of money but I guess it worth it. After that, I downloaded the whole thing on my PC. Then after the download has done, I opened it then I set up the software.
"Alright I think this is good to go. " I said.
"Good. So how do you use this software? " Sayuri asked.
"That's a good question. I also don't know. " I said while laughing.
"sigh Oh! Why don't you search it on YouTube? " she said.
"Oh right. Usually YouTube have stuff like that. " I said.
Then I opened YouTube and search on how to use Vocaloid software. Surprisingly, there's a lot of video on how to use it. I clicked on one of the video and try to learn from it. It's kinda hard to understand it on the spot but I managed to get the main point on how to use it. Then I try to do what I've been taught by the video and it goes pretty well. I can make the robot sing.
"Woah the robot really sing. " Sayuri said.
"Yeah that's impressive. " I said.
"So now you make your own song then. " she said.
"I think so. But that gonna take a lot of time. I need to create the music and lyrics by myself. I've never done that before. " I said.
"Don't worry. I'll do what I can to help you. " she said.
"Right, please do so. " I said.