currently on my mac i am using logic studio which is apples music production
program. one nice feature it has it allows users to create loops of
instruments like rhythms etc. what do you guys think of having a similar
feature in lmms where the community can give loops back to the other lmms
users?
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Paul Wayper <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 09/02/2010 02:26 AM, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
> > On 09/01/2010 09:15 AM, Paul Giblock wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't believe it is valid to draw that conclusion.
> >>
> >> The problem is a lack of information, not us trying to hide evidence.
> >>
> >> Perhaps a solution is to make the samples available in a seperate
> package? We
> >> can constantly nag the user into downloading the sample pack. Distros
> could
> >> put the sample pack into nonfree repos?
> >>
> >> As far as projects.. I plan to add author and license metadata.
> >>
> > ...
> > I agree that documentation for each sample is the solution, placing the
> burden
> > of proof of a sample's freeness on the author making the claim. That
> would show
> > that all reasonable precautions were taken and provide a layer of
> protection.
> > Any samples that are unable to be documented should be replaced. That
> would also
> > allow the samples to be included with LMMS without the need for a second
> package.
>
> I would recommend, then, that instead of trying to trace the obscure
> origins
> of the samples currently in the LMMS tree, we find new samples of known
> good
> license and use those.
>
> One example of a resource I saw for this is the OLPC Sound Samples:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples
>
> The whole collection is nearly 8GiB of uncompressed samples, and there are
> many different packs available, so I think there's plenty to choose from
> there. According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Music/Music_content they
> are
> "free and available for downloading and use in your music and activities" -
> it
> would be worth clarifying if they mean GFDL, CC or some other license.
>
> Packaging them up in separate files will also give downloaders a chance to
> choose when and how they get that 300MB sample pack... :-)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Paul
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