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

PS - I also wasn't selling them. It was intended to be free 
download distribution of keynotes (c1, c2, c3, c4, and c5 of "noted" 
instruments, etc)

  Just to clear that up as well!

/.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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