"I recently got a DS Lite, and of course the first thing I HAD TO HAVE was KORG DS-10, it's utterly AMAZING! Here's just a little song I made getting used to it, it's nothing fancy, but I like it. :3
If you have a DS, there's NO REASON you shouldn't own DS10! It's powerful and easy, like if you can design sounds on an analog synth and you have used a piano roll sequencer before, then you don't even need the manual! ALL HAIL KORG AND AQ SOFTWARE! (And XSEED for bringing it to USA!)" KORG DS-10 on Ebay KORG DS-10 on Amazon
YouTube via smuleage "iPhone | Ocarina | SMule. http://ocarina.smule.com/ http://themulewashere.blogspot.com doing the first ever On the fly Ocarina Jam! See people anything is possible." You can get Ocarina's Smule here:
YouTube via kennykeyboard "The Lambda brass setting by itself uses 2 oscillators which can be detuned. It shares one filter envelope which is more noticeable with staccato playing. The EP strings is nicer since it allows a slow attack for the strings part. The person mentioned at the end has a music theory book with which she will slap me for not resolving my harmonies."
There's a fascinating thread running on the Image-Line forum as well as the Velvetacidchrist forum. In short someone used a loop in Image-Line's Fruity Loops, and someone else is threatening to sue for unauthorized use of the sample.
via dirtycircuit on the Image-Line forum: "I used the loop 'Berlin' in one of my songs on a cd I recently finished only to be contacted by an angry deadmau5 threatening legal action.
WHY ARE THESE AVAILABLE AS LOOPS AND WHY AREN'T THEY CREDITED OR NOTED AS HIS?? I would NOT have used it had I known it was his
Also what am I to do at this point. the cd is on iTunes and Amazon, so i can't just take it off myspace and forget it.
I'm really upset with the FL team over this. Now I look like an a-hole"
I decided to download the Fruity Loops demo to see what it stated in regards to use of it's loops. If you go to Help followed by Product Information followed by Samples and Sounds you will see the following at the bottom of the page:
"All samples are royalty-free, which means you can use the samples in your own compositions and songs without paying any further royalties. You are not allowed, however, to resell or redistribute any or all of the samples as a sample pack or sample CD."
Update: This reminds me of two commercial acts that released two separate songs based on the same loop; IMonster's Daydream In Blue and Beta Band's Squares. Both used "Daydream" or "Day Dream In Blue" by the Belgian band Wallace Collection in 1968. You can read more about the source sample as well as its use by IMonster and Beta Band here on Wikipedia. Both tracks were released around the same time. via the Wikipedia article:
"Coincidentally, at almost exactly the same time as I Monster were releasing Daydream in Blue, The Beta Band were just about to release their single Squares from their 2001 album Hot Shots II. Squares also used the same melody as the original throughout and had the original song's chorus line. On realizing the clash with I Monster, The Beta Band were forced to pull the single and released Broke from the same album instead. Squares, however, may be found on the first soundtrack for HBO's Six Feet Under. Also by coincidence, the two vocalists for these two versions sound quite similar, which led to people thinking that Daydream in Blue might well be the work of The Beta Band or that Squares might be the work of I Monster."
IMonster - Daydream In Blue (censored version) [unfortunately the uncensored version appears to have been pulled - Update: found it - it's further below]
Beta Band - Squares
Update: Found the uncensored version of IMonster's Daydream in blue. WARNING: this is one is definitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
via Gordon: "I attended Hampshire Jam 7 last weekend (traveled there from Boston!) and have uploaded some short videos to YouTube and a number of photos to Flickr:
Redshift at Hampshire Jam 7
Free System Projekt at Hampshire Jam 7
YouTube via aquakarn
Keller, Schoenwalder & Broekhuis at Hampshire Jam 7
