[ Closed ] Attn Modarrt - reverse engineering warning

I'd be interested to hear Modartt's reaction to the assertion that PTQ uses samples for certain aspects of the sound, hammer strike and damper noises etc.

I was under the impression that PTQ was entirely modelled.

That may well be true, I'm not judging one way or the other.

Just to be clear the bulk of the above post is quoting another thread on another forum posted by another person, I just wanted to make Modartt aware that someone was dissecting their application.

I don't see anything wrong in looking at the contents of an EXE file which is free to download. It's almost the same as looking in a ZIP file or in the application folder content for an application. I bet you BazC were the guy who told your teachers your classmates were smoking in the toilets

Oh, I wasn't worried that you were saying, "How DARE they use samples!!!" in this instance.  I know that you were simply saying, "Hey, fellas, check out this attempt to dissect Pianoteq!"

That post is a weird attempt to create a "conspiracy theory," frankly -- I just about died from laughter when I realized this fool was trying to "prove" Pianoteq used a few sample snippets, albeit for relatively-mundane purposes.  What a waste of time...

OK, I agree, especially the part with publishing a file with the FLAC files on the Internet prohibits 1.1(g) of the EULA:

"Separation of Components. Pianoteq Trial is licensed as a single product. Its component parts may not be separated."

The part where you observe the content of the EXE file may not be considered reverse enginnering, because depending on the law that could mean also decompilation and/or disassembly and in this case it's only a decompression of an archive but that's up to the law.

However, where is it stated officially that Pianoteq is using samples for the piano noises? I didn't know that and I made a search for that information and can't see it. It would be misleading to tell people it's all modeled while it's not.