Augh! (Electronica, Fruity Loops, and Ableton Live)

[Nev]

Image Line (makers of Fruity Loops) are a bunch of smart cookies. I lay down part of a track I'm starting to like (with the beats in Ableton Live and the synths in Fruity Loops, which I just this morning figured out how to use as a ReWire device) - and I discover I'm using a synth instrument I have to pay for. Which I haven't bought yet. And when I saved it, it deleted the melodic line I'd just laid down. It warned me that it would do so, but I guess I just didn't really pay attention.

Augh!

[SineSwiper]

Dumb. Now they are claiming ownership of sounds? Very lame.

[Nev]

No, dude, it's just a synth instrument. You have to pay for it, or you can't save tracks made with it. I'm sure there's a hack out there, but I'd rather not use it.

[SineSwiper]

Yeah, it's one instrument. There's a potential for many many sounds just in one song. Again, it's incredibly lame. Do drummers have to pay royalities to Pearl because they use those drums in an album, or pay to Roland because of the use of the keyboard? I understand copyright issues with voice clips and longer sounds with a melody in it, but not a single sound.

[Nev]

Huh? Anything I make with this is very, very royalty-free, and there's no copyrights involved. I pay once, I can use it forever.

Trust me, dude, $20 is not a lot to pay for a soft-synth instrument. There are instruments out there that cost hundreds, easily.

[SineSwiper]

I think it would be easier to buy a sound box or $99 keyboard and get hundreds of sounds without having to deal with paying for one single instrument.

[Nev]

I can get most likely get dozens of good sounds out of it. It's highly customizable.