sonar11 wrote:There was no "bashing" anywhere on this thread
some of the posts speculating about the possible reasons behind the permission for postings being revoked struck me as a lot closer to "bashing" than to "healthy criticism". I also personally think those posts should be removed from the thread as they are just innuendo and could be construed as being defamatory in nature.
sonar11 wrote:In my opinion, we are better off without samples where permissions to use them freely can be revoked for no reason or explanation. There are enough world class organs around where the people in charge are much more receptive to HW, why not sample those organs instead?
we are all entitled to our own opinions, that's why I think that when posting on a public forum we should all be careful about not writing things that could prevent others from enjoying their own. If posts from a vocal minority, say, cause the titular of a world class instrument to deny permission to record it, all the others that would have been fine with a "restricted license" sampleset will be negatively affected.
I personally don't think that there is any scenario where we are "better off without samples" is a desirable outcome: from my perspective there are a lot of available organs with very unrestrictive licenses, if somebody wants to use HW for public performances they can definitely use those instead, rather than be upset if some other sets are released under different licenses, and the more samplesets are available the better!