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September 05, 2005
rip rebirth, long live the swedish software overlords
Rebirth. It's got a warm place in my heart and blew my mind the first time I used it - it was on the beginning of the end for hardware synthesis and hinted at how quickly the production of electronic music and music in general would shift to software. It was fun and easy to use and for those of use with nautical tendancies, reasonably easy to get a hold of.
Propellerhead have discontinued Rebirth, but in a move of fairly fabulous generosity on their part they've released it for free download online from their Rebirth museum. Right now, it's no longer even online - Because of the demand eating up basically all of Sweden's and Luxembourg's precious bandwidth (this may be a bit of an exaggeration - i'm sure Luxembourg will be just fine). At any rate. If you happen across the CD ISO (~500+ mb) file on one of the file sharing networks you can actually download it with an easy concience. I will post when it's back online at propellerheads hq, but this seems so much like the perfect example of bit-torrent swinging in and saving the company a dollar or two and making sure the only people paying for the bandwidth are those who would like the software. If you happen across a torrent for it please let me know and I'll link it and get sued! Hurrah!
Rebirth Museum for all your antiquated 303 and 909 needs. Oh did I mention they also put up the mods and extra utilities like the excellent pattern editors as well? Well i did now. Legal obligations are out of the way - let the hunt for a speedy download site begin!
Posted by funnelbc at September 5, 2005 11:19 PM
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