For years I've put low-quality demos on my web site. Why? I figure a lot of the musicians shopping for my styles are going to use their computer's sound card or built in software synth to play them back.

If my demos sounded much better using a decent synth than the end user's sound card, he/she might think I was cheating.

Lately I've been re-evaluating that approach. I'm in the final process of making 4 new style disks, and I might use my SD-90 to make the demos and rip them at a higher bit rate.

Would that be cheating?

The SD-90 is a decent sound module, not top-of-the-line but definitely not the bottom either. On the other hand, I could use my entire array of sound modules and get the best sound, but using just one seems like a reasonable compromise between ultra-lo-fi and ultra-hi-fi.

What do you all think?

If you sampled a style demo done on a decent module, and then played it on your Windows or Mac built in soft-synth would you think I'm cheating?

This really concerns me as I would prefer the styles you purchase to sound better than the demo file and I definitely would not want the end purchaser to think I cheated on the demos.

Thanks,
Bob

Last edited by Notes Norton; 03/11/14 06:24 AM. Reason: typo (I even have Type-O blood <grin>)
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