I haven't seen Aaron chime in here in a few years; not sure he is still watching the list. Sean of E-Mu recently rejoined. Maybe he wants to chime in.
It might be nice if those of us who would want to see the creation of new samples, presets, banks, etc. for our well-loved "legacy" gear had a tool that would cross-compile resources for the new ROMs as well as the Proteus X/Proteus VX/Emulator X line. As I mentioned before, I think it would be great to a large number of original arp patterns (i.e., designed by users) on one of newly designed ROM.
Perhaps an arrangement could be made with whoever might own the rights to the original samples or has the official imprimatur to resell them (if such a person exists) to repackage them. It might be nice to know what the terms were, too. Were the samples work-for-hire? If so, did rights revert back to the artists who created the samples and presets after the gear reached the end of its useful life? Does anyone know?
Steve