Once upon a time, the sample industry was healthy. Broadband has decimated it. Same thing for style creation, honestly. It USED to be much better, now it's just a few tiny houses hanging on for dear life. Without universal copy protection for hardware keyboards' data, the only time you see anything new is in the ROM of a new product. That sucks!
not sure, I think that as I bought my libraries, I could convert and use as I deem fit , as long as I'd make only a personal use(supposing that it would be easy enough to do the conversions). Actually Eastwest libraries are extremely hard to copy and download, first because they are huge (check out their 'Pianos' library, even the economical 'Gold' version is 60 gb , the full version is about 3 times as much ! ). But also ,they have a very strong registration process, with an I-lok. I am no hacker so I would not know, but I know that on P2P programs, these libraries cannot be found working. Which I think is a good thing, otherwise these guys would be out of business and there would be no more amazing products.
I agree about older Akai libraries being pretty good even by modern standards. Your Kurzweil blows out of the water all the Tyros keyboards, for sample handling. I had a K2000 a long time ago and to me it was like owning a spaceship. A beautiful instrument. Back then, there wasn't anything that could touch it.
The Tyros 2 sampler, compared to the sampler of your K2500, is a joke....beside the 1 gb ram, which doesn't really matter much as WAV files eat up 1 gb RAM very quickly...
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