SurgeXT - any restrictions on the use of sounds generated ?

[baconpaul]

We have a faq on our discord about it. Let me reproduce it here in case any future kvr folks find this thread

**Q: If I make sounds or songs with Surge, can I distribute, sell, or commercially license them them?**

Yes.

Surge is Free and Open Source software released under GPL3, a license which governs the requirements if you modify the Surge source code or distribute a binary of the Surge software. But GPL3 doesn't constrain you from using Surge in your music in any way.

If you make songs, samples, sounds, patches, glitches, noise bombs, soundscapes, videos, movies, dog beat, or any other intellectual property using Surge, you own it and you don't need any license or permission from us or anyone else! These applies whether your sounds are given away for free or commercially licensed or sold. And whether you start a patch from scratch or use one of our presets to make a sound. The output of Surge is yours to do with as you want.

[lilsaf98]

Do you provide assets to be used for art/sample packs? if so where can i find them?

[EvilDragon]

What sort of assets do you mean? Like logo? This is all found in the GitHub repository.

[lilsaf98]

Yes, i'll check them out.

[lilsaf98]

What sort of assets do you mean? Like logo? This is all found in the GitHub repository.

Where can i move my own patches into the "third party presets dropdown" folder?
Also i ended up downloading the logo with text from the website. I can't find logo only version on github, but no problem.

[EvilDragon]

Please don't do it, factory and 3rd party folders get deleted then reinstalled on every update of Surge XT.

And yeah text is pretty easy to remove from the logo if need be

[morphex]

Ok, thanks everyone for your responses. I wanted to make sure that I had not missed anything that might have been written somewhere that would impose any limitations. As mentioned in the responses, some synths do impose limitations and I wanted to double check that SurgeXT does not.

It’s a legitimate question, and you’re doing the responsible thing by double-checking. I’m one of those people who will take the time to read through the entire agreement. I don’t find the process to be very pleasant. But I’m noticing that EULA’s are becoming increasingly longer, more complicated, and more strict.

I do wish that companies would release a legal document that’s easy to understand for the layman. Otherwise, it’s just a ton of legal speak that many people automatically agree to, even if they have no idea of what the terms actually mean. It’s always better to be safe than sorry.