Hey Ross,

I want to make sure there is no misunderstanding here my friend.

My understanding from your original post was, I could use some help here guys and in return I've got some fine tuned killer rigs here for ya (Paraphrasing of course).

I believe I was the first to jump in and say sign me up and was glad to do it to help ya; and I posted to the group to state my opinion about how GREAT I thought they were and how it elevated the 11R up even higher than it was before, plus being in your "inner-circle" was too sweet because you kept sending us rigs that were/are stunning!!!!

My last post was nothing more than my opinion based I what you originally stated, and like you said in your email to all of us, you welcomed our feedback, and that's what I gave here, my feedback/opinion based upon what was known by me, and I guess the rest of the list members, at the time I posted.

"i was planning on emailing everyone and asking them if they were all content with me making everything available to the forum as it was before."

I think that's a great idea, and you said you were planning on doing it, so I haven't heard a single person on the list object to it, so please feel free to do just that.

Now, here's where the NEW information comes in regarding selling your preset's (at least for me it was new info):

"i believe that my time is worth something to somebody in need of particular presets that they aren't able to make or find for themselves. my ability to make presets is the only real form of work that i have been able to do in the last 4 months. "

I had no way of knowing that you were doing this for work and charge for your time man; I just found this out like everyone else when you posted it last night, AFTER I had stated my opinion about continuing to sell them after CHRISTmas ---- Let me say that another way for clarification please, up until your posting last night saying you want to do this as work and be compensated for your time, none of us, AFAIK, was aware you were going to do this for continued income for you and your family, so I hope that clarifies my point.

"as for people's feelings on copyrighting preset issues; most of those "feelings" are based on not having that work (presets) be your main means of feeding your family."

Once again, neither I nor others (AFAIK) had the slightest idea that you were going to sell presets as your main means of feeding your family man; you may have know it, but WE didn't, so I don't know how you could even state the above knowing that we didn't have that knowledge..

"when it's all you can do, and people don't care...it's a heartbreaker."

Please don't feel that way Ross, again none of us knew that you were going to do this to feed your family, and the fact that, 80+ people joined in to help you should say that we DO care man.


"i will make a website for "pay" or "donation" based presets, because i believe there is a market for that. that is also my main form of work for now, so i really have no choice."

With the additional knowledge that we now have, I think that makes a lot of sense, and who knows where that could lead my friend; I would hope that you would post the URL here so that anyone that would like to purchase them from you can do so asap.

As you know, I've always valued your opinion and my opinion was given with the knowledge that I had at the time I stated it, and hopefully I have clarified my opinion further with the additional information you have given.

Respectfully,
Jerry (aka Str@man)