OT (Reality)

[Jim Johnson]

>I can get lots of complex voices out of it without lagging down the CPU
and
>in that respect it's pretty good too. It's short comings are that it is
>entirely dependent on the SF2 (Sound font) format. Which means. It can't
>portamento, It has no free running LFOs and a host of other things that
put
>it squarely in the "Toy" market. Although SF2 is an open format, it takes
>Creati-Flabs to define what is and isn't legal within it. Since they have
>never provided them with allocations for professional features, I guess
>Seer couldn't opt in even if they wanted to. Without risking their product
>becoming incompatible down the line.

As a former Seer employee I can tell you that this is in no way true.
Reality's SoundFont capabilities are just icing.. the core engine knows
nothing about SoundFonts and is not limited by that spec at all. For
example, SoundFonts do not permit FM, yet Reality certainly does.

We probably shouldn't drag this thread out, but I did want to squelch this
rumor before it got started.

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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