Zero-G Vocaloid Leon

I have been recording music in one fashion or another since 1983. I play guitar and bass, and these days a few virtual instruments.
I use FL Studio, Cubase, DDClip Pro, GoldWave, Kristal, and use an EMU-0404 internal soundcard.
Most of the music I play is heavy, but experimental.

The library being reviewed here is Vocaloid Leon from Zero-G in the UK. This is the software that a both a virtual singer plug-in and full vocalist editor application. The manufacturer purports this software to be "your own personal singer".

For what I paid, it was well worth the money. I have been looking for singing software for over 10 years, and this is it!
When I got the software, it had a complicated registration/activation method, but downloading the latest patch makes the process easier.
I have been playing around with the software, and have mixed results. While it is possible to come up with some cool and snazzy singing, it seems limited to certain styles of music.
It is pretty amazing and certainly worth the money!
I am still getting it to do what I want, as the best I have come up with in the few days I have had the software sounds like a mildly retarded opera singer singing heavy lyrics to grinding guitar lines (mixed results by my book).
I am trying to make yelling noises with it, but Leon wants to sing pretty: I will soon break him of that.
The software works in MIDI, as Leon is a voice font with a non-standard complex set of MIDI properties to do just about anything with the voice font. The software breaks up interpreted words into pheonomes and this breaks down words into interpretable chunks the software matches rather well to recorded samples (Leons real singer - who ever he is). Vocaloid uses a piano roll like FL Studio to plot notes, and you set the beat, temp, and measures for your notes with drag & drop - similar to using FL Studio. It is pretty intuitive: I would have written it this way if I produced it.

The software will allow just about ANYTHING to be sung (I admit to having him sing things that gradeschoolers would have thought was hysterical trying out the software).
The Vocaloid editor allows the MIDI compilation to be rendered into 44.1,48, and higher WAV files (good for sequencing in DDClip and Cubase). My earliest messing around with the software made WAV files that worked with tunes mixed that needed vocals (VERY promising potential).

Dont waste your time with the downloadable demo: it only allows "oohs" and "ahs" to be played with. For was cheap as it is, its worth having (99.00 student priceing, 170-ish full retail).

While I am not sure if there will be commercial bands with Leon as the front man, backup vocals and very human-like frontman vocals for your experimental music needs are very possible.

I have used it for days, but I can see that something is possible. If you have a home recording studio, you need this in your arsenal - plain and simple. Imagine: your music with leon sing strings of obsceneties and the strangest lyrics with the conviction of an opera/soul singer. No good singer with self-respect would subject themselves to that!