STEALING SOUNDS

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Although the music industry bemoans music swapping by its customers, many musicians are also swapping different types of music files. For example, a wide variety of computerized music programs, like Sony’s ACID and Sound Forge lines (http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com) let musicians create songs on a computer by mixing loops of presampled sounds. Other samples, like those from Spectrasonics (http://www.spectrasonics.net) are created directly for a musician’s keyboard or synthesizer, letting players create and record orchestras of exotic sounds. The prices of many samples, like Quantum Leap’s “Voices of the Apocalypse” for $499 (http://www.soundsonline.com), exceeds the budget of most musicians.

That makes the alt.binaries.sounds.samples and alt.binaries.sounds. samples.music newsgroups popular stops for musicians who are eager to try out the latest samples, stay on the technological edge, and simultaneously stick to their budget.

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