BIABGuy, before speaking the truth, you should have read Bob Norton's website first. Had you done so, you would have seen:

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The mp3 demos were recorded using either the Virtual Sound Canvas or a Sound Blaster Live! card at 32kbps. It's a low fidelity recording, the instruments will sound a little tinny, but you will be able to hear all the parts, and most importantly, they will download quickly on dial-up and broadband Internet connections.


Those aren't the high quality synths he was talking about. Those are what most users will probably have on their computer (or had when the demos were created). That was a conscious choice, rather than recording something in high quality only to have a user ask "why theirs doesn't sound like that" after purchasing the software. There was a long discussion thread on this a number of years back.

This was done so you get an idea of what the instrumentation of the styles sound like, not necessarily the sounds of the instruments themselves (because that depends on your own sound setup). It also makes it easy for non-high-bandwidth prospective buyers to get a sense of the styles without having to download large audio files.

So hopefully that answers your question.

John

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