[AngelCityOutlaw]

Recently, I purchased Sylenth.

I was messing around with some of the presets, changing them to suit my needs when I stumbled across this one arpeggiator preset called "New Order". When I played it, I was overwhelmed with a feeling that I heard this exact phrase before and blood began to spray from the ceiling.

That's when I figured out it is exactly the same as the bassline from this little jingle.

If you match the key and tempo, you can sync the sylenth preset up to that song...

Could a company not be sued for such a thing?

[SonicThHedgog]

Originally Posted by AngelCityOutlaw

Recently, I purchased Sylenth.

I was messing around with some of the presets, changing them to suit my needs when I stumbled across this one arpeggiator preset called "New Order". When I played it, I was overwhelmed with a feeling that I heard this exact phrase before and blood began to spray from the ceiling.

That's when I figured out it is exactly the same as the bassline from this little jingle.

If you match the key and tempo, you can sync the sylenth preset up to that song...

Could a company not be sued for such a thing?

Usually presets (and samples really) are royalty free. Don't quote me on that. I think a company cannot own a sound,time, nor a synth they did not make in the first place, but they 'can' sue you on the composition(obviously).

grats on getting sylenth1, my favorite synth and low cpu! I just made this with it.
http://soundcloud.com/aires/air3s-codge-dharger

[AngelCityOutlaw]

Ahhh shit. I now know why it's called "New Order".

The song in the blade movie is "Confusion" by New Order.

[lazygecko]

Originally Posted by AngelCityOutlaw

Could a company not be sued for such a thing?

Nope. If that were true, whoever made the first supersaw sound would be filthy, filthy rich.

[Neblix]

Originally Posted by AngelCityOutlaw

Could a company not be sued for such a thing?

Would I be sued for including a trumpet in my soundtrack? Trumpets are pretty popular...

Being snappy aside, it's all in the Terms and Conditions when you install the software. Normally I never read that stuff, but for music stuff, I actually do to find out answers to questions like where am I allowed to use this sound?

If they give me complete control to just do my own thing commercially then I would say any "homage presets" like the one you found were properly cleared.

[Argle]

As said, there's no law against using complex presets verbatim. Just your own sense of shame. :P

[dannthr]

It sounds like it's an homage preset, in which case I wouldn't use it, if I were you, but I would USE it to understand how it worked, how it was made, and tweak it until it was my own.

[AngelCityOutlaw]

Originally Posted by Neblix

Would I be sued for including a trumpet in my soundtrack? Trumpets are pretty popular...

People keep using examples like this, but they're forgetting the preset I speak of copies a musical phrase. It's literally as if it was lifted directly from the song "Confusion" and you can just pitch shift it to whatever you want.

It sounds like it's an homage preset, in which case I wouldn't use it, if I were you, but I would USE it to understand how it worked, how it was made, and tweak it until it was my own.

Indeed, I have been changing the settings and just randomizing the arpeggiator.

[SonicThHedgog]

Yup

Its basically a TB 303 style synth, just change some pitches on the arpeggiator and your good sound wise.