[Alan]

Here is another vote for contact them. I have a feeling I know which library it is.
I had something similar happen. I submitted a couple of non-exclusive tracks to a call for genre “X” and never heard back after several months, so I assumed I was rejected. I was surprised by the rejection so I went searching that genre to see what they had. I found my tracks in there and they were retitled.
I was all spun up about it and contacted them. It turns out they had accepted the track and simply forgot to send the schedule (or it went to spam). They apologized because and assured me the track was assigned to me the whole time. We are all human.

I think you should contact them immediately to avoid them licensing it under the premise of being exclusive when you have it elsewhere.

As far as the re-titling of exclusive tracks. It has happened to me too. Maybe they already had that title, did you check? Or maybe it was too long, or they felt a different title would generate more interest. I consider them the experts in that respect.

[Alan]

I thought I should share this:
In May 2013 I submitted to a FMN Job listing. A month later I got an email from a video producer saying my track would likely be used, but the “client moves slowly.”
I had forgotten about it, then in September I got an email saying the “video was complete, please send me a contract and invoice.”
I got the check a week later. Only $150, but it was nice not splitting it with a library.
For me, FMN is legit.

[Alan]

Great thread!
I have had a big drop in NE placements this year after two years of steady gains with a popular library (J) that is now pushing Exclusive only. My placements seem to have peaked in Dec 2012. New cue sheets have dropped to a trickle.
18 months ago I started with another popular NE library (S). They too began pushing exclusive in mid 2012.
I decided to raise my level of risk and submitted most of my new stuff exclusively to them for a few months. So far nothing to show for my risk.
This year I went back to NE with a smattering of E as I continue to test the waters.
I also added a few new RF sites this months.
For me it’s still too early to tell

[Alan]

ASCAP vs. BMI Advice needed

Hey all, I’m about to start a co-writing partnership. I’m ASCAP. which should he join? One better for library writers?

Thanks

[Alan]

My tracks formerly know as retired now show a status of “approved” in my cue list, but do not appear in my profile. I am waiting patiently to learn if my removed and formerly “retired” tracks are released from the JP agreement. I don’t thing the folks at JP know the answer to that.

[Alan]

I’m also considering a perpetual non-exclusive deal for a few tracks.  I’m leaning towards More Advice’s line of thinking. My stuff is spread around several non-exclusives. I don’t see myself removing anything and I REALLY don’t expect someone to offer me an exclusive deal with big (or any) up front money.

That being said, I can not think of another reason to not sign off a non-exclusive track in perpetuity.

Anyone else have an opinion either way?

[Alan]

My last post made me wonder, so I looked it up. The $111 was from 15 primetime airings of a single episode.

From ASCAP

“# Plays: The number of times in each Day Part that a film, television program or episode, or a commercial, promotional or public service announcement has
been processed for royalty distribution.”

[Alan]

I just had a fat couple of fat single placements on my January ASCAP statement. 44 seconds of a JP tune on Bravo at primetime paid out $111.77 Note the #of plays column said 15, But I’m not sure what that means.

The series was Don’t Be Tardy For The Wedding (never hoid of it). The same episode outside of primetime paid $11, $14 and $18, quite a change huh?

[Alan]

Thanks MichaelL,

I checked out Fable Sounds Broadway Big Band and clicked buy it now. Then I saw the price tag. Unfortunately, I’ll need a few more placements on “My Big Fat Redneck Vacation” before I’m in the market for that one! HA

I just sent Art my project from yesterday. Keep and eye on MLR Jukebox

Cheers!

[Alan]

@ MichaelL

HA, I’ve never heard a trombone joke before … ;~)

Be warned my friend, we “bone heads” are a tight knit group. With one phone call I can see to it that you never get your pizza delivered again.  Never, ever, anywhere in the world …

Thanks for the tips, I’ll look into all of these.

Cheers!

[Alan]

Thanks for all the great input guys! It is appreciated. I think I will do a lot more research before I decide what to get. If any of you want to give more advice, here is what I’m after:

I write in several genres, but my quirky/funny stuff seems to do best.

I play trombone and generally blend that in with sample horns, sometimes it can be pretty convincing with 3 and 4 horn swing tracks.

I’m pretty good with winds (big band jazz, etc) so I need excellent brass and WW samples

I don’t do big orchestral stuff very well, but when I do use strings I really want excellence. I especially want good solo strings

Cheers!

[Alan]

My ASCAP international had some surprised too. I just learned of 9 placements across 2 different Canadian TV shows from 4th qtr 2011. Not much money, but every bit helps. It especially helps the moral! @ Cari, if you are like me, that first cue sheet is falls under life’s most memorable experiences!

I don’t understand why my 16 second Saturday Night Live placement  in  Dec 2011  paid $35 for my domestic payout, but only $8 for my SOCAN payout. Thoughts?

[Alan]

That is a great system Art. Do you keep a separate drive with all your sample/audio that is shared by your swappable OS drives? Is so, that seems like a really good system.

I wish I knew then what I know now when I built my system. I hope to get 2 more years out of my current system, then I will do what you did (or at least try)

Thanks Art

[Alan]

I’m starting to have troubles with X2. The biggest one for me is 64-bit compatibility issues.

Background: I was running XP at 32-bit with Sonar 8.5 and Reason 5. When I went to Sonar X1 and Reason 6 I found I could not open some of my old projects because of “insufficient memory.” I guess the upgrades were RAM hungry.

Last month  I upgraded my system to Win7 Pro 64-bit and doubled my RAM to 8GB (the max for my motherboard) and upgraded to Sonar X2 64-bit

X2 Bugs so far.

Non 64-bit plug ins do not play well in 64-bit. Which means ALL my old tracks will have problems in X2

From Cakewalk:

“Unfortunately it has come to my attention that this is due to Bit Bridge.  Since Bit Bridge is an external application it is treated like an external application.  That is why these errors are occurring.  If you use programs that are meant to be used within a 64bit format then this problem will not occur.  You could install the 32bit version of SONAR alongside your 64bit version.  This will keep this from happening.”

I guess I’ll need to have two versions of X2 on my machine, or scrap the 64 bit version. I’ll research that one.

Today I discovered that when I expand the take lanes, all the tracks below (higher track nunber) disappear. For example. I had a track #10 with seven lanes of takes. When I expanded the lanes, Tracks 11 and 12 were nowhere to be found! When I closed the take lanes for track 10, tracks 11 and 12 re-appeared.

I also noticed that the track inspector window randomly opens to a blank screen.

I emailed Cakewalk screenshots of these bugs. They are usually good about responding promptly.

I had a very creative session going that was completely stifled. Grrr.

My opinion is that X2 wasn’t quite ready for release.

 

[Alan]

I’m working on a track now and am finding the Snap to/by toggle switch very handy. That is something I use a lot. The snap increments  change automatically while zooming when in smart grid mode. I’m not sure if I like that yet, but you can turn it on or off. It may be handy though…

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