[ChuckMott]

For me (doing this part time) 4-5 , 2 being royalty free, 2 being exclusive, one NE. But it took a lot of submitting to narrow that down. And one seems to need a lot of genres that are in my strong areas. If they only needed one style I would probably belong to more.

You will likely see that composers here , if they are submitting to exclusives they are not too sure about, limit the tracks they send to 15-ish to start.

[ChuckMott]

Thanks. I am pretty much in the same boat. If I can find 2-3 more good ones, I’d be done for a bit. I was recently following a thread here about writing an album and submitting to PMA’s, and am considering going that route, maybe in the next year. Some NE it is still too early to tell.

[ChuckMott]

But isn’t there a peak though, where it levels off, people start walking away and the ones who stick it out (the most commited) ride out the storm and wait for things to pick back up again?

As far as I can tell having been on these forums a few years now, there are only a few consistent rf sites. I am in 2 of those plus some others but those two are , er, consistently consistent.

Obviously you don’t have to give names but can I ask people in general, how many libraries they are in and how many they consider to be consistent?

[ChuckMott]

BTEN . For Big Football and Beyond. It was a nice chunk, for me. Big enough but would be an added bonus if I continued to get that kind of royalty every quarter. And it fell under the royalty amount section of my statement, which led me to ask the question.

[ChuckMott]

I’m thinking expect to be ignored or rejected 80% of the time, and expect it as part of doing business. Everybody goes through it; your music will land where it is a good fit. Sounds fine to me and if you do your research, a lot of libraries contain stuff in this general vibe/style. My 2 cents.

[ChuckMott]

Nice work. Wish I could write orchestral stuff like that. Starting to inject a little but at this time it is better that mine is a bit buried in the tracks I’m doing :). Love this, listening right now.

What orchestral libraries are you using for this?

[ChuckMott]

Welcome, Frederick.

[ChuckMott]

Thanks for posting these suggestion guys. If the drive is indeed fried I will likely pick up on of those Western Digital Blacks. Looks like SSD are in a lot of opinions an overpriced option , but that is open for debate I suppose.

[ChuckMott]

Depending on where you’re from, the PMA event I attended was also a mixer, with a couple of hours of people introducing themselves, doing meets and greets, shaking hands. It was a great experience. Some for-now -those who shall be unnamed were in attendance, but from high end libraries. Not just the presenters either. Worth going if you can do it to their event in October. If I were to go again, I would rehearse at least a little bit your “presentation”, like any other business meeting you may go to. Definitely approachable folks.

[ChuckMott]

I’m a little skeptical of this “your hard drive is going”. I do have an old seagate that I also back stuff up on. But the drives are getting full also. Of course if I went through and looked at duplicate files and so on I could shrink those my quite a bit.I could be a little more efficient in how I use the space , I don’t always delete alternate takes and so on.

The project file for that particular project may for some reason have gotten wiggy. I’m re-recording again now, same project, no issues. Actually I would consider the Passports to be pretty reasonably priced and I’ve not had an issue up until now.

[ChuckMott]

Kind of in a bit of a spot. My external hard drive may be going, according to the nice folks at Macintosh. My Logic pro files aren’t opening on my external hard drive – or they are but they are immediately crashing. This isn’t happening though when I open a same project ( as a test ) on my Macbook pro, so the conclusion of the guys at Macintosh: definitely a hard drive starting to go. SO:

Looking for a new hard drive. Currently using a Western Digital My Passport, although I’m a bit bummed that it may be going after only owning it about a year. Suggestions for inexpensive hard drives to start (maybe go with another Western Digital? ) up to other more expensive Raid or solid state configurations, that I can grow with, and some price points uf possible/handy. How often should you need to or be expected to have to replace these things (taking this drive to the store to verify tomorrow whether or not it is a good). My samples I use include the NI stuff, East West Composer Cloud, XLN, Spectrasonics, Etc. and I’m still considering growing into recording some orchestral music, something I would like to do more of by the end of next year.

Picking the brains of guys at best buy who run though RAId and solid state options. But none of them are composers. What are you folks using as far as the external storage and streaming goes and how is it working for you?

Thoughts?

[ChuckMott]

Also a possibility. Although I do enjoy writing for RF libraries, and too early to tell how NE are going to do in the long haul But I see your point. If I am thinking of just going exclusive why not go just exclusive? That is also something I am thinking of doing. And contributing to some select royalty free libraries, and I think I know who those are already. Again 3 years into contributing independently, RF are still doing at least as well but honestly up until this year I focused more on those. Now I am focusing more on exclusive pitches and doing RF when I am not doing that.S0 far – 3 years in – it looks like most of my placements are coming from exclusives and I am encouraged the steady climb with the RF stuff I’m doing. Also does my heart good to see those occasional placements with the NE libraries though but they pale compared to the other 2. So far anyway.

[ChuckMott]

For the record, as I thought, once your license is activated, yo don’t need to be connected to use EW . I’m thinking you likely will need to connect to them once a month to reactivate or update it , unless you pay for a year subscription. But I took a road trip this past week where internet isn’t available and it worked fine.

[ChuckMott]

Is my thought also. I would buy a hard drive to store the samples on anyway ( I have mine on a Western Digital SSD ) and the licenses are stored on there as well. Then it’s a matter of finding a computer to download it or just enable that one temporarily. I am personally not crazy about the pianos on Goliath. Silk sounds beautiful but RA may be a better all arounder , depends what you want. I kind of look at the EW as a more upscale NI Complete kind of package, but there are areas where NI Komplete excels (in my opinion, in the electric pianos, Battery, the synths,and I use guitar rig frequently). I like the sound of addictive keys better then the pianos on either of those. And the AD Drums is, well, one of the best I think. Sorry not to get off on a tangent, but I honestly couldn’t choose EW over NI or vice versa because one covers bases the other does not. I bet if you spoke to EW they would find a workaround the license thing for you.

[ChuckMott]

Your welcome. Glad I could help :).

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