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Q: Any comments comparing your SoundFont with the others
available free to the public and how would you justify that users should
pay for your SoundFont instead of getting the free ones?
I'll just sum up a few things about Utopia Live!:
- Utopia Live! was developed to approach the balance (on which alone
half a year was spend) that can be found on the Roland Sound Canvas
(the GM/GS standard). The result is that Utopia Live! sounds great with
nearly all types of music whether it's jazz, classical music or some
more modern music using synthpads etc. Utopia Live! however does not
sound like any existing synthesizer since, we only tried to simulate
the balance/feeling, NOT it's soundset.
- The sounds in Utopia Live! are overal sound very good and can be combined
with each other without getting bad side-effects like instruments that
don't fit in with the rest or which are badly looped/tuned. One of the
mistakes that authors of other soundfonts make is that they want all
of their sounds to sound as realistic as possible (which often results
in that they combine the best instruments they can find, sometimes badly
tuned and looped) but this isn't possible for a GM/GS soundfont if you
want to maintain balance. What we did was aiming at the best possible
balance and adjusted the reality level to that, instead of doing it
the other way around. A GM/GS soundfont should sound as good as possible
with as many MIDI files as possible and that's exactly what Utopia Live!
does.
- We did not aim our resources at a certain group of instruments but
spent the available space for samples equally over all the sounds.
- Utopia Live! was developed purely for the SB Live! taking full advantage
of most if not all of it's features.
- Utopia Live! sounds unique, alive and has depth never heard in other
GM/GS soundfonts before.
- Has a full stereo percussion kit (using a special technique for enhancing
the stereo effect/depth) and some stereo instruments. Most non-stereo
instruments have a 'simulated stereo effect' (not done with a cheesy
chorus effect like most other soundfonts do) which is which gives just
that little more fuller and dynamic sound you miss in other soundfonts.
- Utopia Live! is extremely compact and features things like stereo
percussion, stereo instruments and crystal clear sounds sounds that
till now have not been heard from any other GM/GS soundfont.
- Utopia Live! is perfectly tuned and looppoints are as good as undetectable.
In other words most of the time you can't even hear that a sample is
looped.
Two somewhat more general points:
- We have a track record. We know how to make quality GM/GS patchsets
correctly.
- Utopia Live! only costs 20$ a price low enough so that everybody can
afford it. For this price you can chose between downloading the package
and receiving it on a CD (for no extra costs).
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