5 May
2008
5 May
'08
3:54 p.m.
Agreed about "other soundware manufacturers that do...", but I'm
curious about how that may apply to the original roland series disks/
libraries for these old outdated devices which are no longer in
production. (which i of course adore as much as the rest of us, just
to be clear). :)
If Roland no longer offers an avenue for people to purchase device
specific software like they used to, then I dont see how they have a
legal argument against those of us who would share among ourselves
our old outdated device specific sample libraries. Keep in mind too
that the original manufacture libraries were correctly mapped out and
formated for each devices sample playback architecture, and this
would not likely be the case if one had to down convert modern
libraries etc, which i think would be a clear legal distinction.
In any event, i'll be happy to give anyone and everyone copies of my
libraries for free once we get a place to post the list. :)
Cheers
s
On May 5, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Nic Grant wrote:
to quote steve landay:
=> This is a good example of my point I think.
=>
=> According to some, you have no legal way of procuring the
original
=> programming/software (of which is no longer being produced) to
make
=> the thing work at all aside from sampling your own samples,
unless
=> there is still a company in business which you can purchase from.
Roland may no longer be offering the sample library for sale, but
there
are other soundware manufacturers that do or software that will
convert
from other formats, so there are still ample ways of putting
those vintage
units to work!
Ebay is also useful for picking up soundware too.
Regards,
Nic.
--
Nic Grant, Soft Audio, nic(a)softaudio.com, GSM: +353 87 2300 914
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