EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Douglas Harris wrote:

> I've been looking through the EXS archive and found a fair amount of
> discussion on this but no conclusive answers. So at risk of starting 
> it all
> up again....
>
> Is there a group (or industry) position on converting existing commercial
> sampler libs into EXS / Giga (whatever). either for personal use or 
> sharing.
>
> I'm planning on converting a large S50 / S550 library, and would like to
> know where I stand.  ( Eric ?? )
>

If you own the library and the license to use it you can do it..

>

somewhere, in a land far away, res0934j at res0934j@... wrote:

>> > Douglas Harris wrote:
>> > 
>>> >> I've been looking through the EXS archive and found a fair amount of
>>> >> discussion on this but no conclusive answers. So at risk of starting
>>> >> it all
>>> >> up again....
>>> >> 
>>> >> Is there a group (or industry) position on converting existing commercial
>>> >> sampler libs into EXS / Giga (whatever). either for personal use or
>>> >> sharing.
>>> >> 
>>> >> I'm planning on converting a large S50 / S550 library, and would like to
>>> >> know where I stand.  ( Eric ?? )
>>> >> 
>> > 
>> > If you own the library and the license to use it you can do it..
> 
> 
This would be true for use of, but not for sharing. Unless that was allowed
in the original agreement (I would be surprised if allowed).



Regards,

    Shane


-- 
Shane Fawkes, 
Director of Music, 
Walnut Grove Secondary School,
Langley, B.C. Canada

sfawkes@...
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somewhere, in a land far away, res0934j at res0934j@... wrote:

>> > Douglas Harris wrote:
>> > 
>>> >> I've been looking through the EXS archive and found a fair amount of
>>> >> discussion on this but no conclusive answers. So at risk of starting
>>> >> it all
>>> >> up again....
>>> >> 
>>> >> Is there a group (or industry) position on converting existing commercial
>>> >> sampler libs into EXS / Giga (whatever). either for personal use or
>>> >> sharing.
>>> >> 
>>> >> I'm planning on converting a large S50 / S550 library, and would like to
>>> >> know where I stand.  ( Eric ?? )
>>> >> 
>> > 
>> > If you own the library and the license to use it you can do it..
> 
> 
This would be true for use of, but not for sharing. Unless that was allowed
in the original agreement (I would be surprised if allowed).



You are right , no sharing... not even between close friends...  :-)



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In a message dated 4/7/02 9:56:49 AM, res0934j@... writes:

>> Is there a group (or industry) position on converting existing commercial
>> sampler libs into EXS / Giga (whatever). either for personal use or 
>> sharing.
>>
>> I'm planning on converting a large S50 / S550 library, and would like
>to
>> know where I stand.  ( Eric ?? )
>>
>
>If you own the library and the license to use it you can do it..

Fine for personal but not for sharing.

-EP

> >If you own the library and the license to use it you can do it..
> 
> Fine for personal but not for sharing.
> 
> -EP

Thanks for all the input on this. My scrupples are intact.

Harris

> >Is there a group (or industry) position on converting existing
commercial
 > >sampler libs into EXS / Giga (whatever). either for personal use or 
 > >sharing. I'm planning on converting a large S50 / S550 library, and
would 
 > >like to know where I stand.  ( Eric ?? )
 >
 >Fine for personal but not for sharing.
 >
 >-EP


It's perfectly legal to share tweaked .exs instruments, just not the
converted .wav/.aif files, for commercially available libraries, isn't it? 

E.g. if there's a famous $500+ sample CD out there that has great string
samples but they each are in their own separate instrument, it's perfectly
legal for one of us to build uber-patches combining several articluations
etc and distribute the tweaked .exs file... right? (of course this would be
more useful once there are velocity sensitive crossfades again) 

Someone else would actually have to buy/convert the actual sample CD to make
use of the .exs instrument (unless they just wanted to use the GUI settings
with a different instrument or something)... It seems like this would be
legal to me? 

Just making sure,
Jeremy

In a message dated 4/19/02 1:22:23 AM, sadus@... writes:

>
>It's perfectly legal to share tweaked .exs instruments, just not the
>converted .wav/.aif files, for commercially available libraries, isn't
>it? 

Yes...no problem.
-EP