Sorry, I didn’t know Dave still where fighting for his name and intellectual property regarding Simmons products. I haven’t picked up on his voice and opinion on any of the major forums? Are the any links where I can read up on the topic?
Will we see
an 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 it
there are only one way to fight these crimes. Make the items in demand even
more accessible to everyone, then there are no value selling illegally – other than
get payed for the physical e-prom programming or floppy disk copying.
The massive
illegal sharing of music that took place past decades has dropped drastically
in regions where music has become easily and cheaply availably. Sadly not in a
manner that got musicians payed that much more money, but now at least it’s
done legal.
Like the movie and music industry spend two decades to learn. If Dave or whomever
still own the right for the sound library and schematics put up an automated webpage
to sell this this stuff electronically that should help. Although lots of people
will try to access this stuff for free any copyright holder now have the tools
and respect in the community to make their claims and easily shut down illegal sales and sharing.
Here are food for thoughts. As more people get
access to great sounding VST simulation of old vintage synthesizes and drum
machines 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?