VY1

VY1

VY1v4 package
Initial release	September 1, 2010
Stable release	VY1v4 / December 17, 2014
Development status	Active
Operating system	Windows
Platform	PC, Mac
Available in	Japanese
Type	Vocal Synthesizer Application
License	Proprietary

VY1 is a Japanese female vocal developed by Yamaha Corporation and distributed by Bplats, Inc. to act as a "standard" vocal for Vocaloid. It has the codename of "Mizki". It was originally released for the Vocaloid 2 engine.

VY1 was created to act as a standard Vocaloid product able to produce notable high quality results. Its name of "VY1" stands for "Vocaloid Yamaha 1", its codename of "Mizki" refers to the flower hanamizuki. Its creation echoed the development of Meiko a number of years earlier. It was originally released as a "Standard" and "Deluxe" version. Compared to many other Vocal releases for the software, it lacks an avatar, though a number of concepts have appeared over time to show individual producer interpretations of the Vocaloid.

VY1 also had an overhauled version of the Japanese vocal library system for Vocaloid 2 without the need of an engine update that resulted in "improved" performance over past Japanese vocals.

A male counterpart vocal called VY2 was also later released for this vocal.

VY1 was also used for VOCALO Revolution, a Vocaloid related TV program that aired in Japan in January 2011, and was used as the singing vocal for the shows mascot "Cul.

As it was created to head Yamaha products, it has since been released for multiple versions of the software, as the primarily offered vocal and has more releases then any other Vocal for the software.

It was the first vocal released for the iVocaloid iOS app under the name of "VY1t" and later re-released for the iOS app VocaloWitter.

The first of the major updates to occur to the software was upon the release of the Vocaloid 3 engine. It was one of four product released on October 21, 2011 for the new engine. This made it one of the first 4 products in addition released for the engine with Mew, SeeU and V3 Megpoid being the other three. Due to its success, it was released as "VY1v3 SE" later in 2013, in order to have a version with the latest Vocaloid 3 engine updates. A second re-release occurred also later in 2013 when it was updated to "VY1v3 neo" and released for the Mac version of the software.