The is a series of voice banks designed for Reason4 and GarageBand

GarageBand

GarageBand is a software application for Mac OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts. It is developed by Apple Inc. as a part of the iLife software package on Mac OS X.-Audio recording:...

, music sequencer softwares for the Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 operating system, developed by MI7 Japan and distributed by Act2. They are sold under a Open-source license

Open-source license

An open-source license is a copyright license for computer software that makes the source code available for everyone to use. This allows end users to review and modify the source code for their own customization and/or troubleshooting needs...

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About

The idea of releasing a voicebank for Macintosh computers was conceptualized in the Japanese voice actress Haruna Ikezawa

Haruna Ikezawa

is a voice actress born in Athens, Greece, but raised in Kanagawa Prefecture. She was formerly affiliated with 81 Produce, but as of 2002, she is affiliated with Oscar Promotion...

's regular column 天声姫語 Vox Reginae, Vox Dei ("voice of princess, voice of god," a spoof of Asahi Shimbun

Asahi Shimbun

The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...

's editorial article 天声人語 Vox Populi, Vox Dei or voice of the people, voice of god) carried in the magazine Mac Fan by Mainichi Communications. It followed the success story of Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku

is a singing synthesizer application with a female persona, developed by Crypton Future Media. It uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 synthesizing technology. The name of the character comes from a fusion of the Japanese for , and future , referring to her position as the first of Crypton's...

, a voice produced for the Vocaloid

Vocaloid

is a singing synthesizer application, with its signal processing part developed through a joint research project between the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and Japan's Yamaha Corporation, who backed the development financially—and later developed the software into the commercial product...

 software which had been produced for the Windows OS only but has no connection to the Vocaloid softwares development. The Macne series gained populaurity after it was discovered that their sound files could also be imported into the singing software Utau

Utau

Utau is a Japanese singing synthesizer application created by Ameya/Ayame. This program is similar to the Vocaloid software, with the difference that it is freeware instead of being released under third party licensing.-Overview:In March 2008, Ameya/Ayame released UTAU, a free, advanced support...

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List of Products

• Nana Macne - female singer, sampled from Haruna Ikezawa.
• Nana Macne Petit - female singer, sampled from Haruna Ikezawa.
• Coco Macne (white) - mature female singer, sampled from Kikuko Inoue
  Kikuko Inoue
  is a popular Japanese voice actress and singer. She has been part of the singing groups DoCo and Goddess Family Club, among others, and is the manager of her voice-acting company, Office Anemone. Inoue tends to play the "perfect girlfriend" or "motherly" role in many series, but she has also played...
  
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• Coco Macne (black) - mature female singer, sampled from Kikuko Inoue.
• Papa Macne - male singer, a special 6 day event version upon his release also included samples of the voice actor Jōji Nakata.
• Coco Macne (black) 2nd version - mature female singer, sampled from Kikuko Inoue, update on previous version
• Nana Macne whisper - whispery voiced female singer (upcoming)

External links

• Act 2
• Concepts