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An ethically strong argument can be made for a licensee of a sample library to not be forced to abide by vendor lock-in, as behooves the incumbent closed library vendor. The underlying issue is actually much closer to right to repair than it is to piracy.

I have collected a vast array of sample sets, in a variety of formats open & proprietary. It should be my right to use those samples in any sampler of my choosing. I may lose 90% of the functionality of a well-constructed Kontakt instrument, but what about old instruments that don’t rely heavily on round robins, legato, keyswitching, etc? Unless the EULA prevents me (but why would it?) from converting, it should be my right to use a kontakt sample library that was legally obtained in TAL Sampler or DiscoDSP Bliss, or Sforzando, or any tool of my choosing.

I’m not moving away from Kontakt and not likely to convert more complex modern instruments, but I have a lot of smaller, older, unique libraries that would serve me better in a different sampler that does not have all the overhead and awful library navigation of Kontakt. To paint use of these conversion tools as only serving the interests of piracy completely dismisses legitimate use cases, which can be perfectly ethical.