Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Thanks Mr. J.  

Barring unforeseen problems, we'll be posting a revised copy 
of "Evolutionaries" this Saturday.  The revised edition will contain 
license text that is greatly "relaxed".  It will also have some much 
needed fixes to a few of Gary's sequences, which accidentally didn't 
contain Clock Div and BPM settings.

You make a good point regarding sequences that are melodic and/or 
otherwise "song like".  It is a tougher situation, but we're making 
it pretty easy in the new license.

Speaking only for myself... as a user, I'm with you;  I'd never 
really want to take someone else's sequence and base "my own" song on 
it.  On the other hand, as the programmer/composer of some of the 
Evolver presets and Evolutionaries sequences, I'd love it if someone 
liked one of my sequences enough that they'd be interested in 
collaborating together to turn it into a full length song.  That 
would be a blast!  :)  Time... time... we all need more time!  ;)


Ski
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EX5Tech Evolver forum:
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--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "mr julian" <jujulilianan@h...> 
wrote:
> From: "ski_ex5tech" <ex5tech@e...>
> 
> > 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