MOTU - When a Company's Piracy Policy Goes TOO Far

Hi....



To all of you working with or contemplating buying into MOTU Products, in particular MOTU MachFive3 - Be aware of the following.



1) If you work with UVI Sample Banks as in BPM, MSI, ETHNO etc. You cannot save your work with MachFive3.



Example:



A) Load up the BPM Sound Bank in MachFive3

B) Load some of the BPM Sounds into an Empty Patch

C) Tweak Samples via the Native Sample Processing in MachFive3.

D) Goto the Menu Option 'Save Program and Samples As...'

E) Choose you destination when prompted to do so.



The Result is that MachFive3 will save your program but NOT the samples.



I thought, perhaps when loading the program, MachFive3 will re-process the files so that the drum kit, I took 3 hours to create, would sound the way I intended it to.



But NO... MachFive3 loaded the patch, alright - only ALL the samples were reset to default which basically messed up the entire kit I had worked on for about 3 hours.

I tried again and the result was identical.



So - if you load ANY UVI based/protected sound library you can forget about saving ANY changes you make to ANY of the samples.



This is the grandest oversight and nuisance that I have come across with any Virtual Instrument. And it is totally stupid and has no intelligence backing it up.



1) The only sampler capable of reading MOTU Patches is MOTU Products.

2) MOTU Products are already protected by iLok.

3) The UVI Sample Libraries are already protected by iLok.



In fact, MOTU's sound libraries are so well protected that its users cannot save the changes they make to their work.



This is IMO not something that is very smart. Perhaps that is the reason so few are using MOTU VIs - at least from my experience.



So to anyone contemplating purchasing MOTU VIs... Be aware of the fact that you will not be able to save your customized work.

MOTU - When a Company's Piracy Policy Goes TOO Far