Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Sorry, I think I caused some confusion in my own wording - 
by "ripping", I didn't mean actually taking every sample wired 
straight from the ROM - I was referring to making sample sets, which 
consists of recording them via analog and then re-EQing them. Not 
taking them precisely as-is, so to speak.

  /.e

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Oscar Finch" <Oscar_Finch@e...> wrote:
>  
> 
> No legal arguement to have I'm afraid.
> You could sample form the analog / SPDIF outs patches for personal 
use which you would then loop/multisample
> and generally mangle yourself.
> Hence why you can sample that 808/909/303/CR78/JUNO etc etc etc  
> That said I could not use the schematics and identical circuits of 
said units and build my own version full general distribution under 
another name.
> If you where to RIP Emu's roms as it was so eloquently put you'd 
be taking the hardwired copy ,raw waveforms ,loopoints ,processing 
and all.
> Quite clearly an infringement of said LAWS for those very same 
reasons.
> Go ahead RIP enough DVD's from ones you've purchased and start 
selling them online and see what happens to you.
> What's so goddam anal about it.
> Quite frankly I don't blame EMU.
> Especially after the Curtis filter chip fiasco & Sequential 
(Prophet 5) - nearly sent them bust. 
> Who designed and made the Curtis Filter Chip - EMU no patent etc 
etc Sequential and several others made a bomb off EMU's tech back 
with that chip alone. I mean how many people could afford an EII+HD 
in 84'
> Hence the patents now placed on Z-plane/12th order filter 
technology.
> Ditto RIPPING the roms themselves.
> You could quite easily program your own patches using your MP-7/XL-
7/PX-7 and manufacture a sample CD of all original material for 
personal profit as a business enterprise adventure.
> Then I could RIP it flog it of for next to nixx in huge volumes 
and hear you bitch about intellectual property.
> 
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