[Krisemm]

Thanks man. I appreciate that a lot. Very timely wisdom, and if I’m honest I was starting to feel I was having to set myself aside a little to get anywhere in this business, because ya “have to make what is selling”.
I often think of the record exec who turned down the beatles and said “rock music will never sell”. Imagine being that guy when the beatles became the biggest band ever, and STILL outsell everything to this day.

I need to find libraries that want Vangelis for the 2010’s, and without CS80s. Only been at this a few months and signed an exclusive first, then a non-ex, but i’d like to have about 10 or 20 on the go to maximise the harvest =)

[Krisemm]

Thats amazing Beatslinger. Thats my dream. I’d love to be like a vangelis of electronica and do custom work. That would be incredible.
600 in 1 year. Thats almost one every 12 hours.
15 years from now, I aim to be in a similar position, but I gotta start with small potatoes for now.
I see it like planting a ton of seeds in a field. There will be a harvest if the conditions are right, but its not gonna be tomorrow.
The seeds go into the ground and seem dormant, even dead, then all of a sudden, BOOM. So I gotta keep sowing tracks like seeds. Some will fall on stoney ground, some in the weeds, and some on good fertile ground its meant for.
Having to don my Columbo coat and finding the good libraries is half the battle right now.
Im going through the A to Z here and taking notes on any library with more than 20 comments.

[Krisemm]

Thanks Beatslinger. I wasn’t really after names as I know everyone here kinda plays their cards very close to their chest, but thanks for that. I had a look and it does indeed sound good. Email sent already as there doesnt seem to be an obvious “upload tracks here” situation going on, and its more exclusive so thats a good thing. Cheers =)

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I replied to your comment Beatslinger, but I see you’ve now edited it, and my post now looks irrelevant.

[Krisemm]

If I didnt want the truth, I wouldn’t have posted. I can handle constructive feedback, and over the 15 years I’ve been releasing tracks online, that, more than anything, helped me to grow. Too much sunshine in life makes a desert. Rain is necessary and vital.

I can critique my own music well enough, and I’m the first to notice the holes before others do, and the ability to self-criticize is priceless, because without it, we would never expand and stretch.
What I don’t know is how a music supervisor thinks when they go looking for a specific piece of music, and I find that difficult to judge.

Its one thing having a good track, but its another thing entirely to know whether its “useful” as a soundbed etc…

[Krisemm]

I actually think THIS is The Quote of The Day!

I think THIS quote nails quote of the day for me

[Krisemm]

Thanks Michael. As regards pricing, Im not contributing in the “race to the bottom” so I won’t drop my prices any lower than that.
I’ll be focussing more on the non-ex and ex libraries. The RF stuff is just temporary and Im not putting my best music on there.

[Krisemm]

Art can you please delete this. Thanks.

[Krisemm]

While these are all valid points, this is info I’m already aware of.
I thought this subsection was called “critiques” because I could get those with some experience of this game to listen to the tracks…..

Nevermind……

[Krisemm]

Cheers Michael. I usually do this and top ‘n’ tail everything in Ozone when I master them. This couple slipped through the net somehow.

[Krisemm]

The tracks I’m working on were great ideas musically, and I knew they had potential at the time, but my knowledge of EQ, compression and limiting were pretty bad, although they still sold.
I’ve basically gone through all my tracks and made a spreadsheet of “potentials”. I wouldn’t use them just as they are, so Im chopping unnecessary sections out, swapping instruments, sidechaining properly, revamping, sweetening, rolling off headroom cluttering EQ, and shortening them to no longer than 3 minutes, with the interesting parts isolated as 30s and 15s cues.
They are pretty different to how they sounded originally, and its a lotta work, but also a lotta fun.

Would the music i’ve uploaded to that link work in a library context ?

[Krisemm]

another thing i’m concerned about is track names.
Do tracks do better if they’re named things like “30 second action sequence”, or, as a genuine name like, eg, “blueberry fields forever”, or does it not matter if there are enough tags.

Also, why, specifically, is there a better benefit to having 2 or 300 tracks on an RF site ? Would a music supervisor be more inclined to stick around on your track page if he/she sees there is a mountain of material if they are only there looking for one very specific track ?
Im just wondering if there is a definite practical advantage to having hundreds of tracks on a library.

[Krisemm]

my biggest concern is that I’ve always viewed music as storytelling, as one of my biggest musical influences was vangelis, so later when I started making electronica, I always strived to stand out by trying to make something that was as experimental as I could be, but also had strong melodies so there was always this 50/50 balance.
I’ve always joked that melody is generally an afterthought in most electronic music.
Im now thinking that any melodic work could be counter=productive as it would be distracting to a music supervisor who needs something a narrator would be talking over, so I find it difficult to make music that doesnt draw attention to a melody cos my head is like a jukebox all the time.

[Krisemm]

I’ve never heard of JRR until today. The only place I buy my VSTs from is direct from the dev or from Plugin Boutique

[Krisemm]

sounds interesting but Im scared to mess with my Komplete installation. I think I made a pigs ear of the setup over a year ago, and battery 3 is always looking for misplaced kits. No matter how many times I point it to the right directory, it still asks the next time it has files missing.
It would be awesome if a program could just magically sort it all out.

I also have problems with reaktor ens and ins and im sure they’re all saved in the completely wrong places, but my jury-rigged file structure works for the most part.
I’d love to uninstall it and reinstall it all properly again, but at the minute it works, and it ain’t so broke that im tempted to wreck the status quo and make it totally inoperable =P

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