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Post by mps on Dec 18, 2006 5:20:04 GMT
They create them, like writting a book. You don't think that if you buy a book you can put your name on it and resell it as something that you wrote do you? Or that if you buy a car, can you copy the design and market it as your own? No.
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Post by Hollow Sun on Dec 18, 2006 13:22:00 GMT
* Buying the instruments * Transporting the instruments * Having them repaired/tuned/refurbished * Buying the equipment (hardware and software) to record them * The time spent sampling them * The time spent editing, looping and otherwise optimising the samples * The time taken programming/mapping everything And sometimes.... * The cost of buying the licence to use them * The time tracking down people for permissions If selling commercially.... * Marketing and advertising * Paying for a professional website presence * Artwork design * Mass production of CDs For example, the CP70 cost me personally about $15,000 - purchasing a good model, having it shipped (bloody expensive - the thing weighs a ton!) , having it repaired, refurbished, sourcing parts, etc., having it tuned, etc. (you have to use a specialist - a traditional piano tuner can't do it), and 3-4 months of sampling (every note full length at different velocities) and editing and programming and so on (not to mention the loss I took in selling the piano on after I had finished with it). For the Fusion 'edition', that was about a week's worth of conversion and programming (although Alesis paid for that time). and how Hollow Sounds was able to obtain those Professional Sounds * See above. and who were they obtained from? They weren't obtained from anyone - they were created by Hollow Sun. As I had mentioned... "By the way... is there anywhere in the owners manual or on the keyboard itself, that states... you can't market or sell the sounds that are on the keyboard? I have not seen it anywhere." There isn't any reference to that in Fusion's manual that I know of. Maybe there should be. Other manufacturers are beginning to include such legal details in their documentation (independent sample library developers have been doing it for decades). Steve
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Post by mps on Dec 18, 2006 14:30:23 GMT
AorpiA, To answer the question that you sent me in a PM... No, I don't work for Hollow Sun. Dammit!
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