However, accusing Chris of piracy because he sampled some sounds he wants to share
Can be considered as quite rude...
Until this point no-one in this thread accused someone for anything.
The only I read is a few members asking if is possible for a single person to do all this work alone and another member mention that the person in question (Chris) mention in his video that he use "samples from other libraries". I can personally confirm this since I also hear the person in question on his presentation video mention many times that he use material from other sources other than his own samples.
So please beware your language and don't mis-quote other members.
so please don’t try to tutor me...
Please read first the copyright laws and then get a professional advice from an experienced lawyer on copyright issues, before express this misleading opinion you have.
In the video I saw, there is a huge copyright infringement issue.
Maybe you plan to use this material only for personal use and this is not a big problem.
Other members maybe plan to this this material for commercial proposes.
So please don't misleading other members with your strict opinion about issues you don't know all the aspects.
If someone is to blame for people using samples in the Genos..
Its Yamaha, as they offer the sample ram..
This is a completely misleading opinion!
The companies offering the ability to do samples, but not for sampling copyright material !
They offer you the ability to do LEGAL samples, under the international laws!
Don't force you or anyone other to broke the law because they offer you the ability to make samples!
Is like blaming companies making knives, that someone use the knives they made in order to kill some one!
Please! Think before you express this type of erroneous opinions.
But the minute Yamaha sells a grand piano, people can do with it what they want
And there is no differnece between the sound of a grand piano and the sound of a synthesizer..
Why do you think Yamaha hasn’t sued Korg for having Yamaha grandpiano samples in the kronos?
And why do you think Fazzioli doesn’t sue Nord for the sampkes they use?
And why are there MOOG samples in the Genos and the Montage?
This is only the one part of the equation.
Anyone can make samples of ACOUSTIC instruments (like Pianos, Flutes, Guitars etc.) without any restriction.
So all the samples the person in question make by him self from acoustic instruments are perfectly legal! No question about this!
You can also make samples of ANALOG synths (like Moog, Juno even DX-7). This is because analog synths use as sound source raw oscillators.
IN any case the "presets" of late analog synths (like Jupiter, JX3P) are copyrighted (Roland already sued many small companies in the past and won). You can't sample exactly the same sound. But if you just change a few parameters and modify the sound (lets say modify the LFO of the sound or the PWM value) you create a new sound and you have the right to sample this sound for commercial proposes.
That's why Kronos has samples from Yamaha acoustic pianos, that's why every modern synth has a "DX7 El.Piano" style sound. Because this is legal. This are samples from Acoustic instruments or Analog synths.
On the other hand though....
If E-Mu invest time and money in order to sample an acoustic piano and then YOU take the same samples and distribute them again in any form (for money or for free) you broke the copyrights law!!! It is that simple !!!!
It is a different story using YOUR samples and a completely different story using the samples of E-MU. It is illegal to use this samples of E-MU. This is the law.
The person in question (Cris) mention many times on the presentation video that he use (probably without permission - if he has permission covering this distribution is another issues) samples from E-MU and material (beat loops) from other copyrighted sample libraries.
So please stop misleading the members of this forum.
It's is a different question if YOU or any other member wants to download and use this material taking the appropriate risk, and another totally different story to mislead the members of this forum with erroneous declarations.
If Cris is a friend of you, please ask him to get IMMEDIATELY, legal advice from a specialized lawyer in copyright laws. The video he has public on YT is a crime evidence and the holders of the copyrights of the material in question can use this evidence in the court.
So if you know this person advice him to take down the video from public view!