NeoG_ wrote on Yesterday, 05:04:
shandavid wrote on 2026-01-08, 22:57:
I've only kept these, I'll probably delete SGM versions 4.0-7.0 soon too.
Seeing older versions of SGM reminds me of the mistakes I made when creating them, which makes me a little uncomfortable.....
(Now when I see people mentioning V2.01, I want to beg them to stop using it and delete it immediately... jesus.)
I hope this is not too forward but I encourage you to change this mindset to archive all versions, regardless of how they make you feel. So many things get lost to time and it's a shame to add to that intentionally. Hopefully instead of a trail of mistakes you can see a pathway of improvement.
I know what you mean. I also enjoy listening to music from the 80s and 90s and the synthesizers of that era, especially stuff from before 1997. My family had a Pioneer vinyl record player when I was a kid.
SGM v2.01 has many sounds from around 2000, when the music industry was already declining, and people were chasing large file sizes and louder sounds.
Due to my inexperience and tinkering at the time, SGMV2.01 had many bugs. Good MIDI files sounded worse on it than on SoundCanvas, and composers using SGM V2.01 would significantly limit the quality of their work. You could say SGM v2.01 itself was one of the small things that made the industry worse, not better.
Stuff from the 80s to the mid-90s had a higher quality standard. We need to work harder to capture the feel of that era, instead of just doing it haphazardly.
Consumers in the past were more discerning and demanding than they are today, mediocre products had no market back then.
It's not about chasing the latest version, but about demanding higher quality.
SGM-Pro uses many better sounds from earlier times (early 90s) than V2.01, The instruments in the SGM-Pro were carefully selected, featuring some of the best sounds from the 1990s.
The SGM-Pro contains 1000 WAV samples, and 99% of these samples have a volume difference of less than 3dB compared to the SC88Pro. The volume balance of each WAV sample was manually and repeatedly adjusted.
There are also many other sound quality optimizations.
That's why the SGM-Pro's sound, precision, and quality are far superior to the v2.01. I feel a little embarrassed listening to the v2.01 now, thinking, "What the hell is this?", so I simply deleted it.
I know everyone has different tastes, but the quality of the v2.01 isn't good enough to discuss stylistic preferences.
