Acceptable for inclusion: drumkits for hydrogen

[Clark Williams]

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Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:37 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
>> >From what I saw by sneaking into a subset of these files,
>> - They lack any license or copyright information.
>>
>> - They are sound files (sound samples), being usable stand-alone with a
>> little processing (They are plain tar.gz's of *.wav's and *.flac's)
>> being obscured by using a nonstandard file suffix).
>>
>> - Question, I don't know the answer to: Do these sound samples qualify
>> as "artwork" (and therefore have to be considered to be covered by
>> "artistic" copyright laws)?
> 
> I wouldn't go that far. I would say at least, they need some sort of
> license or copyright attribution.
> 
> I'm slightly more concerned about whether it is legal to record the
> sounds that a drum machine makes and freely redistribute them without
> the manufacturers permission.

Hmmm.

I don't think there's any restriction on the use of those sounds in a
performance, but there may be restrictions on their use in a piece of
software. Do we know what sort of drum brains were used to generate the
samples? Alesis, Roland, Yamaha, Ddrum? Or are they samples recorded
from acoustic drums?

If the sounds are from an electronic source, they may be problematic, so
we just need to get all the drummers on the list to setup mics and
record some samples. :)

Think I'll head over to the hydrogen site and see what is required...

Clark "dying to setup his home studio" Williams
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