Drum Machines and selling your music ...

[Kenny B]

Not sure if this topic is covered somewhere ...

Does anyone know if you can record and sell your music with the use
of Boss, Zoom etc drum patterns?  Are they royalty free or whatever?

Kenny B.

[leighelse]

I believe you'll be fine, Kenny. I've never heard of an instrument manufacturer suing a musician for using built-in sounds, patches or patterns.

Best wishes,

::Leigh

[Kenny B]

Thanks Leigh you're probably right.

I was working on some songs with a friend and the topic came up about
selling cd's and mp3's online.  I haven't thought about this for decades as I
only record for fun these days and know nothing of the marketing procedure
... then I realized that all these tunes have drum machines.  Do people create
music and sell them with drums machines?   I couldn't find any real info about
this on any web searches.

[IanR]

I'm not a lawyer but my assumption is that you buy the rights to use the drum patterns when you buy the machine they come in.

I think that they would be happy that you used them because it would probably sell more of their products.

Ian

[Kenny B]

I'm not a lawyer but my assumption is that you buy the rights to use the drum patterns when you buy the machine they come in.

I think that they would be happy that you used them because it would probably sell more of their products.

Ian

Thanks for the response Ian ... I was thinking the same and the proper thing to do would be to
give them recognition for their recorder, drums etc.

[Hook]

I wouldn't worry one bit about it. At most when you list the parts just list the name of the drum machine you programed. It's not like your gonna give Fender credit for your song because you wrote it on a Strat.
Rock On!