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Dear James (Sharp) and Rob Sherrat

please say that that is a ly !!!


*Link removed by Sharp*

there has to be an explanation. I have worked with Rob and i cant believe what i am hearing from this youtube clip. Something is not right here

Well that's really serious accusations for sure they have to do something about this video that is clear mentioning there names...

Hi Guys.

What's said in the video is all lies. About the only thing this video does prove is that I made the right decision kicking this guy off KORG Forums a while back for being an idiot. He's clearly still very bitter about it, and that's all that there is to this video. It's all just carefully crafted bitterness and rage directed at me.

Sorry but I'm going to remove the link to the video from the original post here. Everyone is free to talk about this, but I'm not going to allow the video to be promoted on the forums when I'm taking legal action against the guy. Yes... I know exactly who he is and where he lives.

Kind Regards
Sharp.

I hope you really will take a legal action on this because what the person says in that video is really serious to steal anything that is with the copy rights specially when you have a website selling products... I hope you can put down this person good luck...

wow. Whoever he is must be incredibly bitter. He went throough an aweful lot of details to hurt you sharp and Rob ! you have to take legal action

Hi Sharp

how can you stop this man ?
Can you tell YT to delete this vid ?

Hello.
Sorry but I can't say what action I've taken at this moment in time. Best to wait until I'm done with the guy first.

Regards
Sharp.

I also could believe that Rob would do that. Now I must realize that that's just a lie.

i know you mean 'Could not believe' Nor .

Terrible stuff ..... for sure!!! Hope you guys nail him to the cross!! Slander is just so wrong on so many levels!!

Good Luck Sharp!!

Hi
here my communication with truesounddesign on Youtube:
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LESSISMORE99999:
Nice Video. But what is when yamaha took this samples from a third party producer ? Irish-Acts may use the same resources.
Please ask yamaha at first. And when yamaha want to say something about, they will do it. Why are you making this video ?
May it be, that you was kicking off the korgforums ?
Please dont make your private war here on youtube.
LESSISMORE9999 vor 10 Stunden

truesounddesign vor 6 Stunden
@LESSISMORE9999 Nice? What do you like? -- The video is NOT made on Yamaha's behalf. As a developer, I have the right to expose illegitimate competition. Why wouldn't I want to protect my business? IA did not license these samples from anyone. They claim to have sampled a real piano for themselves. -- This is not a private war. If you want developers to keep making new sounds, YOU should get involved. Demand IA stop their piracy. Warn others not to support them until they stop.
truesounddesign vor 6 Stunden

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May it be, that truesounddesign is not a good programmer ???

i dont understand the technical details of the allegation but i know this, if anyone makes an allegation about someone where their intention is to name and shame then they should identify themselves FIRSTand not hide behind a camera on youtube. They should show themselves and provide their genuine name and credentials so that everyone can identify both the accused and the accuser.

The whole thing stinks to me. How do we even know that the samples he is playing in the video are either sharps sampled piano or even a yamaha sampled piano. He makes the point that the yamaha piano sample is used in so many yamaha products. How the hell does he know that ? Does he work for yamaha ????? did he get involved in the actual sampling of the sound ? You cant tell all that just by listening to a piano sample and yet he is telling us to do the exact same thing !!!

When i first went to the link i was shocked and a little horrified at what i had heard as i know Rob personally and he is a stand up guy through and through . After the initial shock i now feel quite angry that some annoymous person can make allegations like this and still remain anonymous. There may be legal reasons why Sharp and Rob have not named this guy or jumped all over this thread so i wont press for more information. It just makes me mad as hell.

i dont understand the technical details of the allegation but i know this, if anyone makes an allegation about someone where their intention is to name and shame then they should identify themselves FIRSTand not hide behind a camera on youtube.

He won't do that because he sells sounds for KORG Keyboards and others and doesn't want his actions to effect his own business.

I could name and shame him right now if I wanted to. A whois on his domain name will even give you his home address.

The whole thing stinks to me. How do we even know that the samples he is playing in the video are either sharps sampled piano or even a yamaha sampled piano.

He's very likely using a midi cable to fake this, but it makes no difference either way. Even if the video was genuinely showing you Yamaha Motif Piano VS mine, they would still share lots of similarities.

Simply ask yourself what would happened if you sent two engineers off in two different directions. Both had the task of sampling the same make and model of instrument. When they return you then compare their work.

Obviously they are going to sound alike. If the didn't then the manufacture who made the instrument didn't do their job right.

Here's a little twist though and why the subject of sampling will never be straight forward and also why this guys crusade is utterly pointless even if I had of broken the law as he describes.

Ok so above I've explained how two different recording sessions of sampling can be very similar. Now ask yourself, what gives these two people the right to freely take the sound from the instrument they are sampling, and after they do this, what gives them the right to think their sound is now protected from the exact same thing from happening to them.

I know, this will mess with your head but the fact is, nobody pays royalty fees on sampling sounds from other instruments and when you buy your next Yamaha it will be full of sounds freely taken from a Moog, every walk of synth, B3, Rhodes, E-Pianos, Pianos, Guitars, and every other instrument imaginable.

So who's robbing who ?
Yamaha samples away freely of anything they like and what... nobody is allowed to sample the Yamaha according to this guy?

Why ? It's not a question I expect an answer to. Just want to get you guys thinking about the big picture here.

While your think about that, here's a list of all the keyboards that were sampled to make omnisphere by Spectrasonics

Hardware Instruments:

Access Virus Indigo
Access Virus A 
Access Virus B
Access Virus C 
Akai AX-80
Akai-S-612 sampler
Akai S-900 sampler
Akai S-1000 sampler
Akai S-6000 sampler
ARP String Ensemble
Casio VL-Tone
Chamberlin Tape sampler
Commodore 64
Doepfer modular
EDP Wasp Deluxe
Elka String Machine
Emu Modular (Custom)
Ensoniq Mirage
Fairlight CMI
Farfisa Organ
Fender Rhodes
Hammond B-3/C-3 Organs
Kawai K-5000 additive synth
Korg EX-8000
Korg M1-REX
Korg Monopoly
Korg Z1 EVL 
Korg Prophecy 
Kurzweil K-2000
Kurzeil K-2500
Logan Strings
Mattel Optigan
Mellotron
Hans Zimmer Custom Moog Modular
Moog 55 Modular
Moog Minimoog (Studio Electronics modified)
Nord Lead
Oberheim 4-voice SEM style analog synth
Oberheim OBXA
Oberheim OB8
Oberheim S.E.Ms
Oberheim Xpander
Polyfusion Modular Synth
PPG Wave 2.2
Roland Jupiter 8
Roland Jupiter 4
Roland Juno 60
Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter
Roland MKS-70 Super JX
Roland MKS-50 Alpha Juno
Roland Modular System 700
Roland Modular System 100m
Custom Modular Synths
Roland TB-303
Roland S-760 samplers
Roland S-770 sampler
Roland JX-3P
Roland JX-10
Roland JD-800
Roland JD-990
Roland D-50
Roland JP-8000
Roland JV-90
Roland JV-1080
Roland JV-2080
Roland JP-8080
Roland JP-8000
Roland Paraphonic 505
Roland RS-09
Roland SH-2000
Roland VP-330 Vocoder
Roland XV-5080
Sequential Circuits Prophet 5
Sequential Circuits Prophet VS
Sequential Circuits Pro One
Studio Electronics Omega 8
Suzuki Omnichord
Vako Orchestron
Vox Continental
Waldorf Q 
Waldorf Wave
Waldorf Microwave
Waldorf Microwave XT
Yamaha CS-01
Yamaha CS-80
Yamaha DX-7
Yamaha TX-816

Soft Synths:
 
Metasynth
Rhizomatic Absynth
Logic Sculpture
Logic EXS24
Logic ES-2
Propellerheads Maelstrom
Audioease thOnk 
Audionerdz Delay Lama
Cycling '74 PGS-1 
Cycling '74 Shape Synth 
Kantos
Kyma
Native Instruments Absynth 
Native Instruments B-4
Native Instruments Pro-52
Native Instruments Reaktor 
reFX JunoX2 
reFX Vangaurd
reFX QudraSID
reFX PlasiCZ
Rumpelrausch Taips ZR1 
Steinberg Model E
Waldorf Attack
Waldorf PPG 2.V
Bitheadz Unity DS-1

http://www.spectrasonics.net/instrument ... arlist.php

Regards
Sharp