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Let me rephrase a little bit. Omnispere 2.0 just came out, and lets you bring your audio into it and apply synthesized effects, etc to your audio. WOndering what other dedicated effects are out there that would let you apply stuff to acoustic, electric guitars and other instruments?
Yes thanks DI there seems to be a lot of good info in that thread.
Soundtoys are great plugins. I bought the native pack a few months or so ago. About the best in their class I think . The delays along with crystallizer, especially on ambient stuff, will bring tears of joy to your eyes, no kidding.
They may also be aware that sometimes fishy things happen to music posted on soundcloud and some libraries ask that you submit directly. Chances are that if they accept you in that is the quality you are going to be required to submit, and maybe they are testing you to see how well you follow instructions.
Thanks Michael.
I’m in New York. Any sorts of events happening out this ay on a regular basis where one can make some contacts? If so I haven’t seen them, they seem to focus on L.A. I would welcome another Big Apple road trip.
I come across bands or genres that I can’t get out of my head until I try to write something in that style or genre. FOr a little while now that has meant ambient rock/pop music, and am currently stuck on stuff like Hammock , American Dollar, Album Leaf, Explosions In The Sky. Really working at beefing up my knowledge of synthesis/synthesizers and trying to pump up my skills so I’m not just using the ones I have as banks of patches. I do have a a day job, but am finding myself listening to music less and less during my daily drives (about 2-4 hours a day)and when I do it is to study or for inspiration. But I can still listen and enjoy it. Even the newer pop stuff.
My Dropkick Murphy’s influenced track Half Irish netted me $20 last month !
(OK not even in the same parking lot of Art’s ballpark. but)….
Seriously congrats Art. That really is a cool (hopefully lucrative ) placement, I love hearing stories like this.
In general you can apply to as many exclusives as you want as long as your stuff only ends up in one. The problem as I see it is if they are anything like NE, the response rate and time varies widely. Some respond very quickly, some not at all, some months down the road. So I would probably try to start with a couple that you felt were what you were looking for and give them a couple months at a time before submitting to others.
I see what Art means though. He is hitting the end note/chord say, 29.5 seconds and letting it ring then leaving the fade to music editor. I’ve heard this before being standard practice, someone had said something to me that if I let the end chord start fading around, say, the 24 second mark it gives the impression that the music is ending too early. Just a thought.
WHat I am shooting for is about 100 tracks in 20 libraries, with 4 of those libraries being royalty free. Having nothing else to go on really, just applying Emmett Cook’s advice from the Business Of Music Licensing. Although if I recall he suggest tapering off from there based on sales. There are really about 5 rf that get fairly consistently good remarks here . You gave me your blow by blow once, if you want mine IM me. Quite possibly others exist that aren’t as popular here that might work for you.
Good points Art and Michael, thank you.
For the record I’ve been following Dave’s posts and his music since before I even joined here. Good stuff and a real good pianist.
My hope is that those top 2 – 3 will continue to be consistent, and the others will flesh things out from time to time. I don’t see much reason either to be in too many RF. That said, the tougher libraries to find that work, and the more long term ones, are the NE and the Exclusive. I’m thinking the right royalty free ones, you should be able to figure that out after having say 60 tracks or so in one for a year. where those others, doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason what works for who. Even some of those more established ones that folks have been in that used to be making consistent money, are thinning out a bit. And that is only in the relatively short time I’ve been hanging out in these forums, which is about 2 years now. DH I suspect some you are involved in are preventing you getting into others that would be more worth your while, if you get my drift. I think you know this already but if you want message me I’ll explain.