EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Sascha Franck <S.Franck@...> wrote:
Hollow Sun wrote:
> That
> investment needs protection and the 'monolith' is a good way to achieve that
> as it makes life more difficult to rip the sounds off (although I guess it's
> not impossible in the hands of a determined hacker).

You know Steve, even in the hands of someone who knows about nothing at all about hacking (that'd be me), it's still possible rather
easily. No worries, I won't spread that sort of "wisdom" - I only wanted to mention.
And in case you're asking yourself how I could know: I simply wanted to load some monolithic Kompakt-based patches into the EXS.
Finding out about how to do so took me like a 5-10 minute search on the web. But as said, I won't say what I searched for (nothing
illegal, just so much about that).

> > Which is a shame, as it's still the most efficient playback machine.
> I wonder if Apple could somehow be persuaded to make an EXS 'player'?!

>Well, there's the EXSP. But it's using the same file format as the 
>EXS, so it's still "patch + samples".

>And seriously: I allready said so, I can understand all those 
>actions from a developer point of view - but as a user, I want my

>patches to be of broad use. So, I just want them to be compatible 
>with any of the softsamplers I own. And I also love mangling
>samples myself, which is another no-no when using monolithic and >proprietary formats.

>Might not be as important when dealing with supposed-to-sound-
>realistic sets, but, for instance, I would NEVER ever buy some loop
>library based on Intakt. It's just WAY too limited to please my needs.

>Regards,
>Sascha

can't blame these cats for going propriatary. i see our stuff on the newsgroups all the time (actually, i haven't looked at a binary group for over a year, but i'm sure our stuff is out there still)
 
 with loops, there is absolutely no protection. mabey we should do an e-lab type VI on the next cd. but we would have to buy into a system like that, i'm sure. that would be some big ass dollars that we just don't have.
 
I heard a stat the other day that blew me away. If there were no piracy, america's trade deficet would be totally eliminated. that's staggering !!! what's sad is that we are not the only ones. globally, it's gotta be buku billions (mabey trillions), that are just flushed away by pirate theives every year.
 
Oh well, what can you do ??? put out the best product you can and trust in the good, honest nature of people