User blog comment:Angel Emfrbl/getting out of hand/@comment-24490922-20141129214655

As a user and fan of UTAU myself, I was somewhat looking forward to Jewel because of her sweet and smooth sounding vocals, but I can see where you are coming from.

Jewel, would be a nice thing, if she was just something by herself and not as a tribute to a VOCALOID who's been long cancelled. And she shouldn't be something that people treat as official, because she isn't. She's just created by an overseas fan who wants to "keep the memory of Ring alive."

Like you said, UTAU was created as a free alternative to VOCALOID, which partially the reason why it's so popular, especially with fans like myself, who can't afford VOCALOID.

But even then, there IS a reason why UTAU is free. Because of how low-quality the program itself is. No matter how much you may want to believe, or how much you love Teto, Ritsu, etc. UTAU will never come close to VOCALOID in terms of quality. And once again, as you said, that's why Jewel is such a BS. Because no matter what, even though Ring never made it past beta stage, Jewel won't even come close in terms of quality, or popularity.