this is kind of a dumb post because i don't have much concern for the topic, and certainly i would expect it to be covered in more depth elsewhere.
one of my schoolmates has been sweeping the documentary film awards with his "rightfooted" about jessica cox. recently purchasing some production music from a site catering to such needs, he remarked,
it would be nice if the musicians offered multiple tracks with variation, eg. a version with no drums and such, as one would expect for production. a couple of different mixes of the same track, seems natural.
i was a bit surprised, but the link to the site did exhibit that the work offered for production was generally single tracks.
as said, it's not my game, so "i don't know what's out there" but both to witness the paucity of variants and to realise that *i have never seen this topic discussed on a music tehnology site* seemed worth posting about.. :p
knowing well the nature of this highly competitive industry, i would generally consider any online advice about producing commercial music to be worth treating with considerable caution, but this seems to be a rather obvious asset to retailing for such purposes.
selling music for production
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Reminds me of tv/film/advert stuff where they'd want various length cuts of the same track, like 15seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds. The sans drums one is a good idea for maximum mixing choices when syncing to video.
If I had to guess why those aren't options on most royalty free music library sites, I'd go with = it's because they just don't know any better. Ie = anyone can put up a website and call themselves an expert in a field. And really, that's gotta be tied (for 1st place) with the fact that customers just aren't asking for or requiring that, so if it's not broke, don't fix it ?
If I had to guess why those aren't options on most royalty free music library sites, I'd go with = it's because they just don't know any better. Ie = anyone can put up a website and call themselves an expert in a field. And really, that's gotta be tied (for 1st place) with the fact that customers just aren't asking for or requiring that, so if it's not broke, don't fix it ?
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- 4314 posts since 31 Oct, 2004
From what I've read, it's better to offer various mixes and various length cuts of the same track (like you said). But for non-exclusive music libraries, it's usually up to the artist to offer whatever cuts he wants. Some site will just take as much music as possible in hope of creating a giant library that they can later resell.Perimeter Sound wrote:Reminds me of tv/film/advert stuff where they'd want various length cuts of the same track, like 15seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds. The sans drums one is a good idea for maximum mixing choices when syncing to video.
If I had to guess why those aren't options on most royalty free music library sites, I'd go with = it's because they just don't know any better. Ie = anyone can put up a website and call themselves an expert in a field. And really, that's gotta be tied (for 1st place) with the fact that customers just aren't asking for or requiring that, so if it's not broke, don't fix it ?