Peff commemorates the death of ReBirth with an Acid House Funeral Dirge. Propellerhead had to remove the app due to a copyright claim from Roland. Which is fucking crazy, considering ReBirth has been around in one for or another since 1996! It is more than a little worrying that Roland has suddenly become litigious. There are an awful lot of other people violating their IP for the last few decades.
RIP in Peace, ReBirth. Throughout its long life it has been equal parts ahead of its time and behind the times.
Video Description:
Because this day, June 15, 2017 marks the official end of Propellerhead ReBirth RB-338, I'm revisiting an old RBS song file.
Reader Comments 8
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As for the lawsuit threat... just wow. I hope whatever court they go to for the next suit notices that they only just started to care about this particular clone as of 2017...
Damn Roland! You so nasty
I download my apps in iTunes on the desktop. That way I always have a backup.
Hopefully doesn't affect outfits like Jomox though. :-\
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I can just see the discussion in a boardroom:
Exec: "Well, the problem is that we're a legend in the business, but many of our early successes were total accidents (TB303) and we haven't really put out anything too groundbreaking or too popular lately - and now the market's flooded with all level of competition eating away our sanctified market share. What should we do?"
Accountant: "Hmmm. Time to try and monetize your rep and image by any means necessary - have you thought of doing limited edition sneakers with your branding on them? We need to make the Roland brand tantamount to electronic music religious canon. Anyone heretically using images of your iconic gear will be taxed and hounded until they cease and fall into line with the New Way. Oh, what's a thing that's really hot right now that people aren't sure they need but we can charge through the nose for because, hey, we're Roland! Wait... I know... cloud services!"
(boardroom erupts in evil laughter)