[quote="Avasopht"]
Is that [u]really[/u] why he used the sample?
It's far too tempting to construct dramatic narratives when it's much more likely that he just came across the sample pack from the magazine it was published in (which featured the sequence on a disk), misunderstood or overlooked the license, and used what appeared to be a usable sequence.
Once upon a time, many music magazines would supply sampled patches from keyboard workstations. For many years they were allowed to do this until some time in the early 00s, one of the major keyboard manufacturers asked them to stop.
Now, if you examine the samples they asked the magazines to stop distributing, you might find some of those sounds were partially derived from other romplers and sampled kits.
There was a lot of back and forth in the early days of sampler ROMs.
The above narrative presumes a lot of intent[/quote]
It wasn't even a sample. The guy he ripped off is part of the C64 demo scene. They use MOD/SID files. Timbaland probably doesn't even know what a MOD file is, let alone a Commodore 64. I guess in his studio they had a SIDStation, which uses old C64 SID chips. And that's how he was able to load those SID files and playback the originally composed tune and repurpose it for his own nefarious needs.
The mere fact that in interviews after the accusation and lawsuit, which he won because he had deeper pockets than a bunch of little-known musicians from Finland, was that he was like "I'm famous, and I can do whatever I want. Who gives a **** about some nobodies from a foreign country." What a disgusting, unrepentant attitude from somebody who's as rich and famous as he supposedly is. Before he used that "Acid Jazzed Evening" SID sequence in Nelly Furtado's song, he also sold it as a ringtone. Talk about milking the same stolen beat for multiple revenue streams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland ... ontroversy
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Guess there are not a lot of MPC heads that I follow on youtube. I've been subbed to some of them, but then got fed up with the mannerisms and unsubbed. 
