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Re: [xl7] Custom Roms... - Any updates?

2010-09-10 by James Ulibarri

There isn't one person on this forum who hasn't copied a CD, vhs movie tape, ripped an MP3, DVD, etc or photo copied
a document at Kinkos or your company copy machine. Spare us all the do-gooder act. Moving on, now if someone was to figure out a way to
burn these roms by the hundreds, and slap Emu stickers on them and sell them on Ebay,.... then hey that's a little different.
But making a back up (10+ year old cheese rom) at your discretion for your own use wouldn't make me lose any sleep.
First I need something worth backing up. In modern Electronica hardly any of those sounds are worth two squirts let alone one. I mean you gotta work hard
to mask that cheese.

Go to EastWest or Big Fish Audio and you tell me if any of these sounds still hold any water. I mean if you're purposely trying to make 90's techno
than that's one thing. But if you haven't moved on and think these sounds still fly, than that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. Oh I use one ROM alright...
and that's for the metronome.



On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, TOMTEL <doggtel@...> wrote:

Truely, I was only trying to inform of where to get the Flash ROM. I, myself wouldn't know where to begin to copy one, I think instead of copying the ROMs, they would be more for a producer or an artist to create their (own sound) and keep them hidden for their album(s), with their (own sound). It just wouldn't be cost effective. Not to say that people haven't done it, I wouldn't try to do it.
I think that there are sounds that are awesome and some that are "cheesy", but I still have all of them. You never know when you will need that "cheesy" sound to make an awesome track sound that much better. Good Luck
TOMTEL

--- On Fri, 9/10/10, Ian Lamb <ianblamb@...> wrote:

From: Ian Lamb <ianblamb@...>

Subject: Re: [xl7] Custom Roms... - Any updates?
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, September 10, 2010, 5:05 PM


I think the samples on a couple of the E-mu ROMs are quite nice, but
overall, I don't think they are worth copying, legal or not - if you
have 32MB (or x4) of space available, fill it with samples that tickle
your ear fully and really deliver for what you want to do.

Just a few months ago there was an extensive discussion regarding the
nature of the FLASH SIMMs on this list.

cheers,
Ian


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