Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

> -----Original Message-----
Ed wrote:Speaking of interesting, where is Yamaha getting its cymbal samples

> in the first place?   And how would a third party procure other 
> desirable ones for a new chip that would not cost at least as much as 
> a module? 
> 
> Ed, that brings up an interesting concept. Who owns sound?  If you buy a
> Sabian cymbal, you can record the sound, you can modify the sound
> electrically, and you can sell the sound, via a
> record/cd/cass/8-track/reel-to-reel, etc, the sound becomes your property.
> If that is possible then you should be able to sample any cymbal you buy
> and trigger it from your module or if you could figure out how to add the
> sounds to the CHIP, you should be able to do that as well. It is
> interesting that a Manufacturer like Yamaha would have to license the
> sound sample from Sabian cymbal, before they could include the sound in a
> module and sell it, yet end users like you and I can buy one, record the
> sound and sell it to whoever we want.
> 
As far as who they get the cymbal sounds from, the voice names gives you a
clue (i.e. Dark, NB-NewBeat, K13) that some must have come from zildian. But
alot of the names have become quite generic in nature. I just surprise with
they haven't just made some of their own to use for sampling.

Could you imagine if cymbal companys, decided to start licensing their
cymbal sounds for use and charged you a flat rate per usage for each live
performance or per each recording produced?


OGD






 
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