Hello,
I have a specific question regarding the use of one or more presets in my future projects.
Is the sound created royalty-free and free to use when it is part of a commercial sound bank, especially when it is a structure of the Melodic Sequence genre, such as “Blurred Time” created by Kuba Sojka, for example?
This could be a rhythmic sequence or an arpeggio offered in a sound bank.
For my part, and as I have done up to now—citing the preset’s creator and the company that distributes and models the virtual instruments—it is not always easy to understand or to avoid legal obligations, which could lead to a lawsuit for use without written and signed permission.
In this legal gray area, I have deleted my SoundCloud, Facebook, and YouTube videos, which legally protects me for now.
Especially if one day, having not registered with SACEM, I find myself unable to
fully benefit from the distribution, even if they are only modest compositions or if they are repurposed, registered by another musician, or even used by AI.
Musical friendship.
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Its a good question and one I don’t see any clarity on, on the Arturia website.
I think they must be royalty free else Arturia are opening their customers up to potential legal problems and shooting themselves in the foot.
An additional issue is the use of samples within commercial sound banks (including those sold by Arturia created by artists). As I found out when creating my free patches, samples can be locked and require the patch user to have the same sound bank as the creator. So now I just use Arturia or Factory samples and avoid those created by other artists. Im not even sure if the same applies to wavetables but to date, I have not had any issues.
So, some transparency from Arturia to clarify the situation would seem in order.
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In previous user guides for various Arturia projects, the following text appears:
“The provided samples, instruments and presets can be used for commercial or non-commercial music and audio Productions without the prior permission from Arturia under the terms of this Agreement.”
I am pretty sure that has not changed.
If you want absolute certainty the the use of presets is royalty-free, then the safest move is a to open a support ticket asking Arturia to confirm in writing that the 2025 EULA still permits royalty-free use in compositions.
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Hello @Promidi
Thanks for your advice—that’s exactly what I just did.
I’m waiting for a reply.
Have a great weekend