New Oberheim OB-8 samples at Hollow Sun.....

[M'Snah]

HansM, the settings most likely won't be converted properly anyways. I still have to see a program or sampler importing/converting 3rd party formats fine. Mappings and amp envelopes usually are all you can expect to be converted properly. Most other things will get lost partially (filter settings) or entirely (mainly modulations).

ok. Thanks. I'm a bit of a newbie at this... at most things actually . I have all the toys but have to learn how to use the knobs .
btw. when I imported the presets in VSampler they really sounded different (with the Saw samples). Or maybe it was only my imagination... Anyway it's nice stuff.

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[hollowsun]

And after six months of me complaining about your business model, you've finally sorted it out.

Well... Zero-G had the good sense to appreciate the value of this extensive collection and offered to distribute it 'properly' complete with a player for added convenience and versatility.

ISTR was that your complaint was not that I had a bad business model but that you thought my products were too expensive and you weren't prepared to pay for them (which is your prerogative).

2 questions

Groan... here we go again

1.What is the legalitly of selling these samples (OK I assume its OK to sell samples of synths - but your pretty blatent about them being the instrument if you get me?)

The sounds for the most part are all from products that have been discontinued and/or from companies that went bust a decade or more ago. The sounds are also ones that I have made and/or otherwise manipulated myself.

I'm sure Novation won't be very happy considering their finaces are as bad as your own.

That's a rather sweeping assumption to make on your part. What is your association with Novation's accounts department exactly? I think I am somewhat closer to Novation than yourself having designed the UI for their V-Station and being a close personal friend of their principal engineer.

Furthermore, the handful of K-Station sounds in my collection are hardly a replacement for 'the real thing' and it could be argued that the sounds are good promotion for their products. There has certainly been no objection in the - what - two or three years those same sounds were available for download.

The same goes for other 'current' products and modesty prevents me from publishing the emails I received from those manufacturers who appreciated my efforts to herald their products in the historical timeline of modern hi-tech instrument evolution.

2.I take it you no longer have the right to distribute the samples freely, or your earning from royalties on this 'Nostalgia' thing?

That is correct. I shall no longer be distributing these sounds for free - I have started a new, more focused and condensed free service recently instead. The fact of the matter is that the old free service eventually crippled me financially and I could no longer afford to maintain it. So I had to suspend it - a simple matter of economics!

As for my financial arrangements, I don't see that I have to explain or justify my circumstances to you and you are impertinent for raising this in a public forum.

I don't know what your problem is with me Johnny. I have provided a free service without issue for four years or more that many (including yourself) have benefitted from. And I am happy for that - I have been glad to have been able to share my extensive sampling experience and sounds with the sampling community. However, recent circumstances (i.e. unemployment!) have forced me to change direction and all you can do is moan. Drop it please.


Steve

[Failed Muso]

And after six months of me complaining about your business model, you've finally sorted it out. Well done. 2 questions -
1.What is the legalitly of selling these samples (OK I assume its OK to sell samples of synths - but your pretty blatent about them being the instrument if you get me?) I'm sure Novation won't be very happy considering their finaces are as bad as your own.
2.I take it you no longer have the right to distribute the samples freely, or your earning from royalties on this 'Nostalgia' thing?

Knob

Cock

Twat

Need I go on.....

C U Next Tuesday

[dougsyo]

It will, however, be available very soon in a new virtual sound module from leading UK soundware distributor/manufacturer, Zero-G, in a product called 'Notsalgia' which, as well as containing an augmented sample set also comes with a Kompakt player.

I've owned Kompakt (and sold it). I loathe the interface on Kompakt/Kompakt players, and I loathe the C/R copy protection.

Doug