Hi! New in the biz (was Doing for a long time). I was wondering about copyrights. I don’t wanna rush too far in the possible future and say my tracks gonna be accepted by a label, but the issue seems important. Let’s say I download (purchase) a sound pack from Elektron’s website, tweak it, use it in my music. How’s the copyright there? Also I assume it’s important to catalogue the source of all my samples right? If it gets lost during a few years, might be troubling later. Organising all my samples is tricky enough but keeping track where it originates from?
All of the samples or sounds in Sound Packs are copyright free in terms of using them in your own music. Otherwise there would be no value other than an educational one in seeing how sounds were created. You just can’t release any of the demo patterns as your own music of course. And you can’t resell the individual samples. But you can use them in your own music without any issues.
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There is a royalty free issue on the sample packs: it is true that (generally) there is no copyright on the samples, but, when the first person composes a song and publishes it, then the samples become his property. I had this problem several times (unpublished videos on youtube, refused uploads on Soundcloud).
The best procedure is to create your own samples from scratch and avoid commercial sample packs
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