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You bet! Good luck!!
^^^^ Yes, this is how I do it. No problem in seeing 30,000+ titles, although the scrolling through to find something is beyond tedious. BMI is a decade behind normal computer science and coding. I think they LIKE it that way though. Less accountability. Still, a major pain.
^^^^ I had similar losses in posts today and yesterday.
Please correct me I’ve got this wrong – I can drag everything- folders and files from the MacHD to an external drive and if I decide to not keep OS High Sierra, I can drag everything back and I’ll have back my MacHD with the previous OS as before.
NO!!! – this will not result in a bootable drive. You need to do this :
1. Attach a new drive to your system via firewire or USB. It must be as large as your boot drive – preferably larger.
2. Open Disk Utility
3. Click on your boot drive in the upper Left Column
4. Click on the “Restore” tab – the boot drive should be showing in the “source” box.
5. “Source” should be your boot drive
6. Your new, clean (formatted or unformatted) drive should be showing in the Lower Left Column. Drag it into “Destination”
7. Click “Restore”
8. Wait a few hours (probably).What you will end up with is an identical clone of your boot drive. CCC actually uses this same app in the background to do it’s thing. EVERYthing will copy over, and you will be able to remove your boot drive, and the system will boot identically, all authorizations will be authorized, even the desktop will be cluttered like your original drive with everything in the identical place. 🙂
If you want to backup WORK drives, then yes, you can drag folders from your work drive(s) to your backup drive.
FOR SURE, you will need to upgrade Contact.
To revert, you put in your “cloned” boot drive and you are at EXACTLY the place you were before cloning it. I suggest always having a clone of your boot drive on hand. If things go sideways, you can swap and 2 minutes later be working again. I ALWAYS clone before any major upgrade. All your “sound” libraries for Kontakt will work in the newer version of Kontakt.
No worries Art. Appreciate the ongoing efforts to figure out the weirdness. Cheers, LAw
Patience and consistency and quality music is the only answer. More importantly, diversification into different distribution channels that enable multiple revenue streams for your music. Not one “exclusive” distributor.
I think this cannot be over-emphasized….So I quoted it. 🙂
I have no idea how many cue sheets I have. BMI doesn’t work that way. I mean, they use cue sheets of course, but to my knowledge, they are not made public where a writer can see and count them. If they are available for me to see, then I’m an idiot cause I don’t know about it and haven’t ever seen them. Haha!
I can tell you that I’m on way, way over 2000 episodes of episodic TV and films. Most episodes have multiple pieces of my music in them. On average 3-6, often over 10 per episode. I could live on my BMI back end if I pinched pennies. I don’t like pinching pennies though, so I am looking to different avenues for income. BMI is playing games with my income and I don’t like it one bit. I also believe that the back end model of royalty income for composers is waning. We’ve had that discussion elsewhere.
I’m quite unhappy with BMI for a variety of reasons and looking to change out when I have the opportunity. With my number of titles in the mid-5 figures it won’t be easy – and it won’t be to ASCAP either….
I sent a reply Art. It was short (a paragraph or so) and no profanity. Of course, I didn’t save it before hitting submit. Maybe it’s still sitting in the ether and you can post it back up. Thanks.
Ahhh, thanks for the explanation. <thumbsup>
That same thing happens to me from time to time here. I never use private browsing windows. Different browsers though. Usually firefox or safari.
Believe it or not, it shows up on SOME browsers, and not others. On one of my browsers, I cannot see the “PERSONAL MESSAGE (PM)” unless I log out, then click on it, then log back in. So weird. On other browsers it works as it should. My guess is you have one of the problem browsers. Try another one.
Art, with shorter submissions, I have not found it to be a problem with Mac/Safari. I’m not sure why “some” longer posts make it, while others don’t, but it seems that’s a constant factor in things when they go south for me.
Also, sorry for any thread pollution I may have created. I have not found these types of problems anywhere else on-line. Cheers. LAwriter.
If you have a 500 series rack (and even if you don’t, and are willing to get one) one of the best bang for the buck preamps out there right now is the louderthanliftoff Chroma.
https://store.louderthanliftoff.com
Both API and Neve style preamps in one space, with a colour slot for compressors, EQ’s and other tone coloring options, HF/LF EQ and you can use it on your mix bus as well as when you record. I got a couple of em.
It sounds like you’re mixing up two completely different topics. Unless I’m not understanding.
I wasn’t able to find info on guidelines to submitting same tracks to more than one exclusive library.
Feel free to submit to more than one “exclusive”. But when accepted, you must NOT put your music in any other exclusives, non-exclusives or private placements. When it’s in an exclusive library, it’s IN – and they are the only place it can be licensed from. I would not suggest putting it in a bunch of “on-line” submission exclusives because there’s a chance that more than one might accept your music simultaneously. And that would really complicate your life as you would have to contact all the “losers” which would not make them happy.
But with traditional style libraries, sure, send it to more than one simultaneously. All that said, perhaps I’m old school – if I’m doing an exclusive project (which is rarer and rarer these days), I’ll target a library, contact them about direction, and write for them exclusively. If they take it, great, if not, I’ll move on to the next library and send it there are wait for a decision before moving on. I absolutely DO NOT do exclusive “on-line” style libraries where I don’t have human contact, and where the submission itself it tacit approval of their terms and conditions.
I am a newbie with Pond 5 with 20 tracks and wanted to submit same tracks to Audio Jungle and others as a non-exclusive deal.
Great. No problems there.
To my knowledge, it’s pretty common to do this. I’ve heard some people “re-titling” the music for each site is that true? Would it more uncommon to keep the titles the same and upload them with same price? What are some advice you would give and are there any risks by uploading with same title to a different library?
As Art mentioned, your only danger is competing against yourself. If you think that will happen, a pseudonym and retitled song names will help prevent that. No risks other than competing against yourself if you cannot control the pricing.
If you can afford it, IMO, nothing beats the Sterling Modular offerings unless you custom build something. Even then, it would be tough to make something better/cheaper. My finish work carpenter was even blown away by the design.
They are customizable, an ergonomic masterpiece, and sonically angled to avoid standing waves and reflections in what is arguably the most important piece of hardware (sonically) in your studio. One of the reasons they are found in so many mastering facilities.
I don’t like their “silver” / modern stock design. For a few hundred more, I did mine in african rosewood, and it’s spectacular….
Too little, too late. IMO of course.