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that do...", but I'm curious about how that may apply to the original roland series disks/ libraries for these old outdated devices which are no longer in production.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used to, then I dont see how they have a legal argument against those of us who would share among ourselves our old outdated device specific sample libraries.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:

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....