The intended design was delayed and later used for Megurine Luka instead. The name of 'Hatsune Miku' was conceived soon after the Vocaloid 2 announcements, when an English and Japanese vocal were developed for the character.
Hatsune Miku was the first Vocaloid developed by Crypton Future Media after they handled the release of the Yamaha vocal Meiko and Kaito. The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first ( 初 hatsu), sound ( 音 ne), and future ( ミク miku ), thus meaning 'the first sound of the future', referring to her position as the first of Crypton's 'Character Vocal Series'. Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol and has performed at concerts onstage as an animated projection (rear cast projection on a specially coated glass screen). Her voice is modeled from Japanese voice actressSaki Fujita.
She was the second Vocaloid sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. She also uses Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a singing synthesizer VSTi Plugin. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2, Vocaloid 3, and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technologies. Hatsune Miku (Japanese: 初音 ミク) is the name of a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media and its official moe anthropomorph, a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoisetwintails.
