nekomura iroha

Other names	Iroha Nekomura (western order)
Developer	AH Software
Release date	October 22, 2010
Gender	Female
Optimum tempo	70-170
Optimum range	E2-G4
Character Item	Undecided

Nekomura Iroha (猫村いろは) is a character created by SANRIOWAVE CO.,LTD. in 2009. Also with a collaboration between AH-Software, she was released as a Vocaloid2 on October 22, 2010.^[1][2]
"Iroha" is the old Japanese variant of "ABC" (as seen in the Japanese iroha poem) and "I, Ro, Ha" means "A(La), B(Si), C(Do)" of seven-note scale. She is illustrated by okama, a Japanese manga artist and illustrator.
Iroha is one of characters of the "kittylers", who love the Sanrio character Hello Kitty. She also joined the "Hello Kitty to Issho!" project in early August, 2010.
In October, 2010, Vocaloid2 for her was released, offering two demo songs as well along with revealing her appearance and name. The voice provider for her is unknown, however, it is said that she is a professional singer who passed the audition test of AH-Software.
A CD is set to be released with two songs ("Tsubasa" and "ABBEY FLY") with her, along with VSQ files. She owes much of her early use to being supplied as a trial version. The offer for the free trial ended on September 30th 2010.

Usage for Music

Iroha has a deep, strong and powerful voice which does not give her a "child-like" feel like that of Yuki Kaai, as her voice provider is a professional singer and thus she is intended to have singing prowess. She is capable of singing fast-paced songs and has clear strong consonants and good smooth Japanese pronunciations. With a wide ranged voice she can sing both in a high and low tone, and gains the ability to sing in falsetto. Some users say editing her parameters and waveforms are much easier than former vocaloids.
As her default vocal setting is a low tone voice and many users tested her in this range, thus many of her early songs had some listeners judging that she sounded less feminine and "tomboyish". However, now some songs feature her with a high-voice and feminine voice.

Dem

Her trial version did not have as many reported problems as Lily's had and was a more closer representation of her final product than Lily's was. At this point in time, there are no known major bugs with her demo version.

Reception

Iroha was well recieved overall in both Japanese and Western fandoms, in the Western fandoms especially were praising to her vocal capablities and was amongst the fan favourite voices of 2010's releases. However, some of the Western Vocaloid fans had a difficult time matching the Vocaloids avatar to the voice and due to lack of information did not understand why this particular kittyler was choosen over the others, possibly due to the language divide.