5 May
2008
5 May
'08
2:39 p.m.
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.
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Nic Grant, Soft Audio, nic(a)softaudio.com, GSM: +353 87 2300 914
5 May
5 May
3:54 p.m.
New subject: S550 LIBRARY
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libraries for these old outdated devices which are no longer in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our old outdated device specific sample libraries.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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5:57 p.m.
New subject: S550 LIBRARY
to quote steve landay:
=> 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
Well, I for one do not want to have any involvement in any legal argument
with Roland - dead platform or not! :-)
Regards,
Nic.
--
Nic Grant, Soft Audio, nic(a)softaudio.com, GSM: +353 87 2300 914
6:51 p.m.
New subject: S550 LIBRARY
to quote steve landay:
=> 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
Well, I for one do not want to have any involvement in any legal argument
with Roland - dead platform or not! :-)
Found this in a ReadMe file at the Sgroups home:
Roland SoundBank
The Roland Sound Bank was a file library of Sounds for the
S-50, S-550 and W-30 Digital Samplers that was available to
our customers through our dealers. Over the years it became
difficult for use to distribute the Sound Bank library in
this manner due to our dealers no longer having the actual
instruments in stock to make copies of the library in the
stores.
In order to still have the Sound Bank library available to
our customers we are setting up several sites on online
services around the country. These are Compuserve, Internet
(at the Sgroup FTP site) and Sound Management BBS.
<snip - some instructions>
If you have specific questions about the library, please
give us a call at Roland Product Support, (213) 685-5141,
extension 770. You can also reach us through Compuserve at
the Roland Forum. Just type Go Roland.
Jim Norman
Roland Product Specialist
Roland Corporation U.S.
So that settles that one....
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