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Creating music on an iPad has come a long way in recent years. Not only do you now have access to Pianoteq instruments on iOS, you can also arrange entire songs and compositions within a DAW on the iPad itself. In this article we’ll take a look at the best iPad music production apps available for you to start writing.
At the time of writing, we are experiencing an unprecedented surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-related applications, platforms and ideas, including AI music. As humans, we find ourselves awash with novel notions concerning machine learning and creativity.
And as composers and musical professionals, we are not exempt from these challenges. Some aspects of the onslaught pertain to the business end of music, while others the creative process itself. In this article, I survey AI music, seeking some insights from a production music perspective.
If you’ve been wondering, “how many LUFS should my master be”, then this article is for you. We will also take a look at the meaning of LUFS and a free LUFS meter you can use in your DAW.
LUFS, which is an acronym for Loudness Units Full Scale, is the industry standard measurement of loudness. Previously, you may have seen RMS (root mean square) used to measure loudness. However, LUFS quickly superseded RMS because it accounts for how humans perceive loudness. The science behind it is quite nifty and worth a read if you are interested in understanding how it is calculated. There are many different pieces that make up LUFS. These include K-weighting, which imitates the sensitivity of the human ear to different frequencies, and also the Fletcher Munson curve. See more about those curves here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour.
Creating a music composer website is a great way to showcase your abilities through your past work and showreel. It also creates a presence for you online and helps to build a reputation, as well as allowing potential clients to contact you directly. Not to mention the ability to offer licensing and sales of your music straight from your own website. Overall you want to show that you have delivered high quality work and that you are easy to work with.
If you’ve been wondering, “how do I create my own music website?”, you’re in the right place. In this article we’ll look at some of the most popular platforms to create a website for your music.
Buyout deals, sometimes known as a composer work for hire agreement or contract, involve an up front payment to the composer, for which the company owns 100% of future license fee income as well as the usual 50% of performance (PRO) royalties. The writer would retain their 50% “writer’s share” of performance royalties, but not in all cases as we’ll see below.
Generally the up front payments that we have seen range from $100 to $1,000 per track. Even the top end of this could be considered very low. As an example, imagine the company sells 50 licenses over the next 2 years for this track, with each license costing $50. (Even these numbers are conservative). The company would make 50 x $50 = $2,500 in license revenue, and the composer would get $0, since they signed away their rights to license income in the work for hire contract. Now imagine that goes on for another 30 years… And imagine that all the licenses are for corporate training videos with no performance royalties. A truly terrible situation for the composer.