Re: [Hydrogen-devel] GMKit licensing issues

[Jérémy Z. <je...@as...>]

yes, let's build or more powerfull default kit !!

maybe get in touch with the guys at http://www.drumgizmo.org/wiki ?


On Tuesday 04 April 2017  23:06, Przemysław Sitek wrote :
> Hi,
> 
> I have been thinking about GMKit from another perspective. Hydrogen has pretty capable sampling engine, with support for multiple velocity layers, multiple round robin samples, multiple mic layers (components), amongst others. On the other hand, default drumkit shipped with Hydrogen (GMKit) is very rudimentary - it does not utilize any but most basic features of Hydrogen sampler. That in turn makes bad first impression on new users. Maybe we could replace GMKit with more sophisticated drum library - either something new or one of existing drumkits available for download from within Hydrogen.
> 
> I see two advantages of GMKit:
> - It’s compatible with GMKit;)
> - It’s compact - any comprehensive drumkit would inflate Hydrogen package sizes.
> 
> Przemek
> 
> > Wiadomość napisana przez ma...@sm... w dniu 04.04.2017, o godz. 20:45:
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > at the end of the last week, Mira (the debian maintainer of hydrogen) 
> > contacted us and brought up an issue which has been reported at the 
> > debian bugtracker: 
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858281.
> > 
> > As a short summary, a user found out that the license of the GMKit 
> > samples is unclear and that it might be the case that those samples were 
> > recorded from a synth, which might limit the use of such samples. A 
> > quick inquiry from our side confirmed this.
> > 
> > This situation is in my opinion very serious for us and we should look 
> > make sure that are default kits are freely distributable. As a 
> > consequence, i would like to remove the GMKit from hydrogen. At the 
> > moment i don't have an idea how we could replace it. Maybe it would be a 
> > an alternative to keep the name GMKit, but replace the samples (for 
> > compatibility with older songs).
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a kit with a suitable license which might be well 
> > suited as a default kit for Hydrogen? It should be small, universally 
> > usable and GM-compatible.
> > 
> > Another idea would be a new drumkit contest, with an extra price for a 
> > new default kit.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Sebastian
> > 
> > 
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