He, like LOLA, also sings with a British accent and is designed to be a generic soul singer and effort was made to make the racial appearance of the singer within the vocal itself.Ĭrypton Future Media, Inc. LEON is the counterpart to LOLA and designed to compliments her own vocals. Genre: Intended for soul music, but suits many other styles. Windows XP (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VOCALOID VERSION 1 PRODUCTS LEON, LOLA AND MIRIAM ARE NOT FULLY COMPATIBLE* WITH WINDOWS 7 OR LATER).LAN/network card must be installed, or a USB network card must be connected to the USB port.Sound Card with Microsoft DirectSound Compatible driver.
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32 bit required (does not work on 64 bit systems).Windows XP or Windows 2000 (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE VOCALOID VERSION 1 PRODUCTS LEON, LOLA AND MIRIAM ARE NOT FULLY COMPATIBLE* WITH WINDOWS 7 OR LATER).View System Requirements Minimum Requirements
#ASK DEX VOCALOID SERIAL#
Serial codes for LEON and LOLA were still available in November 2015, despite MIRIAM being confirmed to have run out of serial codes at this point. However, they cannot provide software support at this stage and users wishing to purchase the software must understand they cannot seek technical support from Zero-G.Īs of September 2015, Zero-G permanently discontinued sales of LEON, LOLA, and MIRIAM and it was no longer possible to purchase them using this method. On 26 December 2014 in response to a fan e-mail, Zero-G confirmed that they will still offer LEON, LOLA and MIRIAM in download format only.
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Zero-G have since responded explaining that due to financial reasons, it is not feasible to update any of the 3 VOCALOID vocals and it is unlikely they will ever be updated. They were all officially retired on the 1 January 2014. In mid December 2013, Zero-G's regular newsletter reported that on the 31 December 2013, LEON, LOLA and MIRIAM would receive permanent retirement and would be removed from sale. In 2008, LEON, LOLA and MIRIAM were put back on sale for the first time in several years, this was thanks to the renewed interest in VOCALOID. However, LEON and LOLA failed to impact the American market due to their accents. At the time of their release, LOLA and LEON had no rival software to contend with and were the first vocal synthesizers to be released of their nature.
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They were one of the exhibits at the Zero-G Limited booth during Wired Nextfest, and the VOCALOIDs won the 2005 Electronic Musician Editor’s Choice Award. LEON was released along with fellow VOCALOID, LOLA, by Zero-G Limited.
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Both LEON and LOLA were known to have been around at the early days of "Project Daisy" and were the only vocals to have been ever be shown to the general public using "Daisy". However, very little information is known about their early development at all and much of the early development of VOCALOID, such as even the name of "VOCALOID", was yet to be finalised. Īs noted by the existence of a early "Soul Singer" boxart, originally Leon and Lola may have been intended to be sold from the start as a duo. According to later production notes, it took 8 hours each day for 5 days to record the vocals of Leon and Lola.