“Spring paints withered trees in shares of green, snow melts into creeks with a vibrant sheen. Azaleas and pear flowers are in full bloom, Sky with evening glow makes a coat in loom.
Fireflies twinkling in the summer nights, then comes the fall with mellow fruitfulness. Chilly winter winds blow everywhere, take some rest my friend. Spring will be here, in a little while
”
—Back of Shian's box
Shian (Simplified Chinese: 诗岸; Traditional Chinese: 詩岸) is a Mandarin Chinese vocal developed and distributed by Beijing Photek S&T Development Co., Ltd., and was released in June 2019 for the first Synthesizer V engine. She is part of the MEDIUM⁵ cast.
Shian was later updated to Synthesizer V Studio as a Standard voice database in July 2020. She was expected to receive a private Standard-trained AI voice database known as "Shian Synthesizer V Plus", but no development information was provided.[4]
Her voice provider is warma, a Chinese singer.
Concept[]
A shape known as the cube (a type of Hexahedron) first appeared on Shian's omamori merchandise. It is also present in the last stroke in the "诗" character of her name. In the spiritual meaning of Metatron's Cube, the cube represents earth, which influenced her design, name, and concept.[5]
In March 2019, Shian was revealed to be part of the MEDIUM⁵ cast and was one of the girls who derived from a single being known as ZERO who possessed Metatron's Cube.[6] She is listed as a Capricorn.
Etymology[]
"Shi" (诗; shī) means "poetry", "poem", "ode", or "verse" while "an" (岸; àn) means "bank", "shore", "beach", or "coast". Combined, her name could mean "poem of the shore".
Her name is rendered in Kana as "シアン".[7]
Appearance[]
Shian's hairstyle and color scheme could represent that of a teddy bear. According to the Dreamtonics website, she is described to have "the faint smile of a baby or, rather, a teddy bear".[7]
Relationships[]
- Cangqiong - Older Sister.
- Chiyu - Older Sister.
- Xingchen - Older Sister.
- Haiyi - Older Sister.
- ZERO - Originator.
Voice Libraries[]
- Shian (Synthesizer V), June 20, 2019
- Shian Standard (Synthesizer V Studio), July 10, 2020
- Shian Synthesizer V Plus (Synthesizer V Studio), Unreleased; Conceptual only
Additional Information[]
Marketing[]
Shian was initially introduced as Xingchen's youngest sister, but her design was not teased until December 31, 2018 on an official omamori. Since then, she was marketed as a member of MEDIUM⁵ and had a variety of merchandise which included but was not limited to: charms, albums, standees, figures, and more. Shian also had her own official Weibo account and official bilibili playlist. Her birthday is acknowledged as January 19 and Quadimension usually released official content annually, including illustrations, merchandise, and songs. Fans were also encouraged to create content for her.
On occasion, Beijing Photek would host tuning competitions[8] and paid music production courses for users to participate and attend. These would feature all of Beijing Photek's vocalists, including Shian.[9]
Reputation[]
Before her release, Shian was initially teased as a mysterious new character on an omamori that was officially sold by Beijing Photek. This led to fans becoming curious of her and not much information was given in regards to her character at the time, other than her name being disclosed and that she was the "earth" themed sister. Her full design was not revealed until February 2019. As a MEDIUM⁵ character and the second sister related to Xingchen to release, Shian quickly received attention from existing Quadimension fans. After release, Shian was used in a variety of genres as producers experimented with her voice database, though mainly took advantage of her warm and soft voice with ballads and pop-related styles.
Shian's Synthesizer V bank was released on Beijing Photek's Taobao page, making it difficult for overseas users to purchase her if they did not know how to navigate and use the site. For her Synthesizer V Studio voice database, she was made available on Animen's ANiCUTE shop, which was friendlier to use for overseas fans.
Although specific vocals have not been mentioned, Ddickky noted that the commercial sales of their voice databases have never been so profitable, leading to a lack of motivation, especially for the creation of AI voice databases of the cast members introduced in Synthesizer V and Synthesizer V Studio.[10][11][12]- One of the first Synthesizer V Studio voice databases to release.
- One of the first Synthesizer V vocals to be updated to Synthesizer V Studio.
- One of the first Synthesizer V Studio female voice databases to release.
- One of the first Beijing Photek Synthesizer V vocals to be updated.
- One of the first Beijing Phokek Synthesizer V Studio vocals to be released.
- One of the first Mandarin Chinese voice databases for Synthesizer V Studio.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.weibo.com/5056093502/HeGaXl6sx
- ↑ https://imgur.com/a/x0S9pE0
- ↑ https://www.weibo.com/5056093502/I0Z944f6h
- ↑ https://t.bilibili.com/607304690576678463
- ↑ https://jelila.wordpress.com/tag/spiritual-meaning-of-metatrons-cube/
- ↑ https://www.bilibili.com/video/av42960488
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dreamtonics Line Up
- ↑ https://t.bilibili.com/513030553568983648
- ↑ https://t.bilibili.com/595083945257636743
- ↑ https://t.bilibili.com/771690836003913744
- ↑ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/695380056155095054/1084001776069525515/Screenshot_2023-03-11-14-25-20-306_com.png - "ai声库是和星尘ai一起推进的，去年就同时邀约了生源，这点资金我也完全没问题。只是有些声源会担心ai抢饭碗，有些声源单纯有点拖…而对我而言，商业策略角度现在出声库并不是很好的时机，所以我也只能做到过俩月去催一下，不至于急道周周催天天问。于是结果如你所见，但不出意外不是过于拖的话，今年minus和赤羽应该可以吧。" "不过另一点是，不光声源觉得ai和自己太像，我也觉得如果这么像声源而非角色之前的声库。不是很合适。星尘一定要做是因为v4性能过于差，所以硬顶着声音变化的反对也做了。而其他几个角色是sv2带拼接式，性能过得去，那做了ai产生与星尘类似的声音变化风波，在外加商业角度（卖声库）不是那么挣钱，你能理解我逻辑了吧。"
- ↑ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/695380056155095054/1084001780926525450/Screenshot_2023-03-11-14-25-45-806_com.png - "回复 @覆雪繁花 :这个还是等快出了看情况才能定，不过基本应该是类似星尘ai的直接卖新的，因为和之前拼接式完全是不同技术工作量和投入成本上也完全不相干，所以会是大几百重新卖，这也是我觉得不好卖商业上不太合适出的一个原因"