Acceptable for inclusion: drumkits for hydrogen

[Clark Williams]

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Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:13 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:37 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>>>> >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?
> 
> The website claims that they came from Roland, Yamaha, Boss, and several
> other units.
> 

I see that they have a number of drumkits available. I thought I'd
download the source and some drumkits, but whenever I try, sourceforge
says "your download should begin shortly" and then it just stares at me
(and I stare back). the "direct link" doesn't work for me either.

Anyone else having issues with sourceforge?

Clark

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