Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

From: "ski_ex5tech" <ex5tech@...>

> Hang on, and we'll get an updated - and hopefully much more
> sensible! - doc out soon.
>
hey thanks ski. Whatever you guys choose to do with the licensing is fair
enough, though it just makes a bit of a difference to how we end users get
to enjoy them. I'm sure somewhere in all those patches, I'll find some synth
sounds that I want to use as is, or with just the tiniest bit of tweaking...
It would be nice to just be able to use them.. :-)

Sequences, on the other hand....... I'm not 100% sure about what to do with
sequences.. I mean, even the ones that are part of the presets of the
evolver... The thing is, a sequence could also count as a recorded musical
performance if someone wanted to get all legal and stuff... I guess it would
be even more so with the "multitimbral" sequences that do melody/chord or
counterpoint... (not that I'd feel comfortable using something like that
from someone else as the basis for a song anyway though) at the very least
though, the tricky sequences are great to examine and play around with...

Does anyone know what are the legalities with things like pattern presets in
roland grooveboxes? I'm sure a company like roland would have already worked
this sort of thing out. The answer is probably sitting tucked away at the
start of someone's mc303 manual....
:-)



julian