Why are Spectrasonics Legacy Sample CD's So Damn Expensive?

[egbert101]

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[Gamma-UT]

But they told me they stopped selling those libraries well over 10 years ago. Is it really that inconceivable for them to convert and offer their legacy samples as digital downloads?

They may no longer have the rights. Best Service operates a lot of licensing deals and if the rights have expired it probably isn't worth the aggro of negotiating a new deal - especially as they'd have to offer the results at bargain-basement levels.

[Jace-BeOS]

Yeah, just look at those elitists looking so elite in their judgey elitist way. Pfff.

They are a relatively small company still.

they are all white

Depends on how some of them identify themselves.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=are+hispanics ... ite&ia=web

[pixie.army]

Considering they're not converted to WAV or AIFF and are on CD-ROM's? Are there ever any sales? I heard you can't even buy these second hand, as the license is only for the original owner.

You used to be able to convert these formats years ago. Actually one of those programs seems to be around still - not sure if it's compatible anymore...seems to have stopped with XP.

http://www.soundlib.com/cdxtract/

I converted every one of my Akai / Giga / Roland format libraries to Kontakt / wav like 12 or 13 years ago. Only a masochist would still be using those formats!

As others have said - those libraries are still used today. I hear Vocal Planet, Distorted Reality, Bizarre Guitar, Symphony of Voices all the time - in pop, hip-hop, tv / film scores, commercials. More so now, probably because most of that stuff is in the Omnisphere 2 stock library. And honestly, if you have Omnis 2, you probably have quite a bit of their older catalog.

But flashback to 2002 - here's John Powell using a bunch of their drum loops (forget which library...Heart of Africa maybe?) in Bourne Identity:

Holy ^%$#, that was 16 years ago.

[egbert101]

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