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Sorry, Ididn’t know Dave still where fighting for his name and intellectual propertyregarding Simmons products. I haven’t picked up on his voice and opinion on anyof the major forums? Are the any links where I can read up on the topic?
Will we seean awakening of Simmons like Oberheim's SEM, Dave Rossum's EMU modular and alike?
>> P wrote: “why should you give away what you had to pay (for a lot of money) ?”
Regarding selling copies of schematics and sounds is just plain wrong, that we agree on. That might also be the reason OT stated he will not pay for it? Could it be a simple misunderstanding?
In a perfect world copyright holders could say "no we don't want to sell sounds and schematics". Actually most of them do but as I see itthere are only one way to fight these crimes. Make the items in demand evenmore accessible to everyone, then there are no value selling illegally – other thanget payed for the physical e-prom programming or floppy disk copying.
The massiveillegal sharing of music that took place past decades has dropped drasticallyin regions where music has become easily and cheaply availably. Sadly not in amanner that got musicians payed that much more money, but now at least it’sdone legal.
Like the movie and music industry spend two decades to learn. If Dave or whomeverstill own the right for the sound library and schematics put up an automated webpageto sell this this stuff electronically that should help. Although lots of peoplewill try to access this stuff for free any copyright holder now have the toolsand respect in the community to make their claims and easily shut down illegal sales and sharing.
Here are food for thoughts. As more people getaccess to great sounding VST simulation of old vintage synthesizes and drummachines the more valuable the original hardware gets.
Yes I noticed you first made the point its not the money value of SDX that concern you, but to keep it unique. I'm not sure yet where I stand when it comes to this question :)
If there where made 250 SDX units and only 5000 people knew about it. Is that more unique than if there where made 250 SDX units, 20.000 DSP / VST versions and 2 million people had heard about it?