On Jan 30, 2015, Kenmochi Hideki retired from Vocaloid development, making VOCALOID4 the last version of the VOCALOID engine he worked upon. Internet co., Ltd also confirmed that they would release a new vocal for VOCALOID5, so their direction for VOCALOID4 was also focused more on updating old vocals rather than creating new ones. Crypton introduced their E.V.E.C function, which would be the focus of their updates. It was decided to find a second voice provider for the purpose.Internet co noted that they would would to increase triphone numbers and were working to increase the overall performance of their vocals. Due to the fact that the provider of Kaai Yuki would likely be of middle or highschool age, re-sampling her voice for growl samples was a problem. For Ah Software, due to the impact Windows 10 had on maintaining the VOCALOID2 software, AH Software decided to relaunch every VOCALOID2 vocal they had produced as a VOCALOID4 vocal. spoke about the development direction they were taking for the new engine. On November 24, Internet Co., Ltd., AH-Software Co.
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It was revealed that its release would be on December 17th, 2014, with a voicebank upgrade for VY1 also planned. On the 20th November, YAMAHA made an official announcement regarding VOCALOID 4. The new engine's existence was made known in late October 2014. during a discussion about Ruby, an unreleased English VOCALOID. VOCALOID 4 was first mentioned by Bil Bryant of PowerFX Systems AB.