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tomg · Post by **tomg** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:49 pm

autodafe wrote:I can host it if permitted.

This looks like permission to me. I may even put a copy on my site.

Meffy wrote:anyone can redistribute the software. [edit: It's specifically allowed by the license; redistributing reg codes isn't, except for this new free code.]

A freely sharable modular VST plugin with freely sharable ensembles is a great thing. This could be big. It's certainly huge for educators. I've never used SM before but I'll give it a spin and we'll see what pops out. Might be cool.

autodafe · Post by **autodafe** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:54 pm

i will try to put it on my site later

going out now...

jens · Post by **jens** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:06 pm

Sync Modular is just great! Thanks, Eric and Meffy - and Dr. Sync, of course!

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:08 pm

tomg wrote:This looks like permission to me. I may even put a copy on my site.

Meffy wrote:anyone can redistribute the software. [edit: It's specifically allowed by the license; redistributing reg codes isn't, except for this new free code.]

I'm basing that on a (quoted) section of the license agreement, and on nobody at NI saying it wasn't so. If anyone learns otherwise -- that the latest license agreement doesn't allow redistribution -- let me know right away. Must be done right.

[edit] Hm, I'll just go ahead and download it. Even if I never install it (and I don't think I shall) I'll want to see the EULA first-hand.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:13 pm

It's an .exe installer so I had to run the setup to get at the docs. (It ran okay in Vista 64, though without thinking I put it in the wrong Program Files directory. My mistake, easily fixed.) Here's the entire SynC Modular License.txt; boldfacing added by me:

THE SYNC MODULAR v2.21 LICENSE AGREEMENT

1. This agreement applies to the SynC Modular version 2.21 as
contained within the original distribution file. The agreement
does not apply to any other versions of this product.

2. By installing, copying and/or using this software in any way,
you agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. If you do
not agree or cannot satisfy the terms of this agreement,
immediately stop using the software and remove the software from
your computer.

3. WARRANTY. This software is provided to you AS IS and without
warranty of any kind. You agree to use the software entirely at
your own risk and responsibility. The author of the software
disclaims any liability for any possible damage, harm, or any
other negative consequences arising out of this agreement or the
use or the inability to use this software, even if the author
has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

4. EVALUATION LICENSE. You may use the evaluation version of the
software for unlimited period of time provided you use it for
evaluation purposes only. If you are more than just evaluating
the software you are strongly encouraged to purchase the full
license.

5. EDUCATION LICENSE. Students of schools, colleges and
universities may use the evaluation version for more than just
evaluation purposes under the same conditions as if they were
using the full version under the full license condintions.

6. FULL LICENSE. The full license grants you the right to use
the full version of this software in music production, education
or scientific research. The rights granted to you by the full
license cannot be further trasferred. You may not resell, lease,
copy and/or give away the full version (technically that means
giving away registration code or providing some other means to
run the full version). However you can make backup copies of the
software.

7. OBTAINING THE FULL LICENSE. You obtain the full license by
registering at the software's home page and receiving a personal
registration code from the software author. Upon the reception of
the registration code from the author you become a legal owner of
the full version license. The registration code is for your
personal use only and cannot be given to any other person.

8. FULL LICENSE UPGRADES. The obtained full license can be
upgraded free of charge to full license for each new version
during one major version period from the registration. E.g. if
you obtained full license for version 1.40.xxx you have free
upgrades to full license up to 2.39.xxx inclusive (xxx is bugfix
number and is not taken into account), when version 2.40 is
released you have to either stick to old version or register
again to obtain a new license.

9. REDISTRIBUTION. You may further distribute the evaluation
version of the software, provided you distribute it in the
original unmodified form. You may take money for the distribution
of the evaluation version to cover the media costs and other
expenses arising in the process of the distribution.

10. REVERSE ENGINEERING. You may not modify or reverse engineer
in any way the binary code of the software. This applies to any
kind of licensing this software.

11. LICENSE TERMINATION. If you violate the terms of the license
the license can be terminated without any prior notice to you
and the author is free of any obligations to you regarding this
license.

12. The license does not grant you any other rights except
expressly stated above. The author continues to own and retains
all rights to the software. You are not allowed to sell, lease
or otherwise make money of this software unless the right to do
so is expressly granted to you by this license or by the written
permission from the author.

END OF THE LICENSE AGREEMENT

Note that to uninstall in Vista you will probably have to go to the installation directory and run the provided uninstaller program as Administrator, as using Control Panel won't do it. UAC wasn't in the picture when this software was created.

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:25 pm

Here's a few (34) ensembles I found in my archive to help get people started. They seem to be freely distributable but there are no readme files in the zips. If I'm not right about this someone tell me and it will go away.

http://www.ele4music.com/vst/sm_ensembles.zip

strav101 · Post by **strav101** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:55 pm

Stuff to download

http://www.rcaia.com/sync_mod.html

http://www.dashsignature.com/SM/SM_Ense ... _Liqih.rar
[mod: fixed second link so you won't have to delete the " "]

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:56 pm

I found a few readme.txt's and it looks clean. It's neat looking back to where this was in 2000. It's also cool that the sleeper has awakened. I've always wanted SE to run as a VST. While this is not quite that, I have a feeling it's going to be good fun.

strav101 · Post by **strav101** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:02 pm

This is a contender for SynthEdit if it can do VSTi.......

griels · Post by **griels** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:08 pm

strav101 wrote:This is a contender for SynthEdit if it can do VSTi.......

It can't, but it's incredibly good anyway.

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:12 pm

It can't export VSTi, but it can run as a VSTi. More like Reaktor than SE/SM.

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:14 pm

strav101 wrote:This is a contender for SynthEdit if it can do VSTi.......

Here's the Nord Lead 2 Ensemble running in XT2. Pretty damn good!

ksn · Post by **ksn** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:50 pm

This is excellent news !

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:18 pm

karoliinastrensemble07

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:37 pm

If you want some great Sync C creations check out Liqih's collection:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3147387

SynC Modular officially freeware =)