RUBY (VOCALOID4)

==History==
===2013===
RUBY started as an independent project in December 2013 with only Prince Syo working on her.  Half a year later, he was joined by Anders, who had previously worked for VocaTone.@Prince_Syo: I worked on her myself for about half a year and then Anders joined in on dev-ing Despite Anders helping Syo, a development team did not exist, since Syo exclusively worked on RUBY for the most part.@Prince_Syo: and I don’t personally consider myself part of vocatone@Prince_Syo: i dont understand what y’all are talking about because there is no “ruby production team?” it is literally just me ok
At some point, Syo searched for companies that could support RUBY and PowerFX, Zero-G and Crypton expressed interest in the project. It became clear that Crypton would not allow much creative freedom at all.  Anders thought that Zero-G and PowerFX would be better candidates because he had worked with and trusted them.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__view__findpost__p__1274569 The two chose PowerFX because they would allow more control over the design.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__st__855__p__1274133&#entry1274133 Anders later remarked that at no point was anyone promised any control over the final design and that it was his decision to choose PowerFX.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__st__1080__p__1274597&#entry1274597
===2014===
On September 19, 2014, Syo publicly revealed that he and Anders were working on a VOCALOID and a voice sample of RUBY was posted.@Prince_Syo: Here’s a sample of the Engloid I’ve been developing with Anders since December. clyp.it/hcpped4f Keep in mind it’s not necessarily PFX  At the time, RUBY was affiliated only with VocaTone, but not PowerFX.@Prince_Syo: Technically RUBY is just Vocatone right now, no other company is involved with her at this moment However, Bil Bryant, the CEO of PowerFX, revealed in October that RUBY would be delayed so that she could be updated to the VOCALOID4 engine.http://i.imgur.com/hCmTbmM.pnghttps://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/563136910344744960
On October 30, Natasha Allegri posted concept images. It was revealed that she and another artist had been requested to submit concept art for consideration.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/36197-vocaloid-general-discussion/page__pid__1201457__st__9405&#entry1201457 At the time, it was not confirmed if the concept art would be used in RUBY's final design or whether either of the artists were to be chosen as the final illustrator.
===2015===
Early in 2015, some early production samples of RUBY were discovered.  Syo explained that these test audio clips were not the original uploads of these samples. The originals had been removed and someone else re-uploaded them. However, there was no objection to them existing so long as everyone acknowledged that they were of early versions of RUBY's vocal and that they did not reflect the current status of the project.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__st__390__p__1239667&#entry1239667http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__st__330
It was announced that RUBY would be associated with PowerFX.https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/563138512505933824
Syo expressed a desire to create at least two voicebanks for RUBY to take advantage of VOCALOID4's cross synthesis capabilities, but was unsure due to the doubled workload.https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/557316301673472000https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/557316453876396032 The extra workload was owed to the increase in triphonetic data. In addition, PowerFX was only willing to pay for one English voicebank.  They wanted to see how well the voicebank sold before adding any additional voicebanks.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__view__findpost__p__1238836 It was also confirmed that RUBY originally had a Japanese voicebank, but this was scrapped.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__pid__1238693__st__360&#entry1238693 Her English recordings were redone to sound similar to her Japanese voicebank.http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/index.php?/topic/55772-ruby-new-female-english-vocaloid/page__view__findpost__p__1238700
On June 10, Syo asked for original songs that he could use for RUBY demos within a week.https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/608742938382733312 Examples had to be sent in and he would decide if the song would be accepted as a demo.https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/608743064119615488
After resolving miscommunication issues with PowerFX, it was confirmed that Natasha Allegri would illustrate the design for the physical copy of RUBY based on the concept Misha, the voice provider, worked on. It took 3 days to produce the art instead of the expected 1–2 weeks.https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/621812646291963904 Natasha commented that doing the art made her very happy.https://twitter.com/natazilla/status/621815605755117568
On September 18, Syo tweeted that RUBY would be released within the month.https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/644854039184740352 Later that day, he tweeted that the release date of the download version would be the September 23. Boxed versions would be available afterwards.https://twitter.com/Prince_Syo/status/644912503344918529 On September 23, it was noted that she was to be delayed.Ruby delayed She was officially released as a digital download on October 7.
Her physical version and bundle package were made available on December 12.http://powerfx.com/products/989262091http://powerfx.com/products/989262092
==Product Information==
===Early Production Samples===
===Demonstrations===
===System Requirements===
*VOCALOID4 Editor
*OS: Windows 10 (32/64bit) / Windows8.1 / Windows8 / Windows 7(32/64bit)
*CPU: Intel Dual Core CPU
*RAM: 2GB or more
*Hard Disk Capacity: 3.54 GB
===Voicebanks===
==References==
==Navigation==
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