Who's the composer?
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- KVRian
- 601 posts since 5 Mar, 2005 from A bordello in Moscow
I was going through presets in Spectrasonics RMX today when suddenly I realised I was listening to the nemonic for a major mobile advert! Not a version of, nothing added or taken away. Just somebody switching on the app and pressing a key. Now tell me (and I'd be grateful for input from the Spectrasonic boyz), who gets the paycheck for writing that? Did the producer just do one of us desperately seeking composers out of a pay-cheque and play it him/herself? Did the composer think, "I can't be bothered to do something original"? Or did someone do the right thing and post a cheque to Spectrasonics? With all the sounds available today do producers need composers for such little jobs or is it time for we writers to become producers and cut out our middle man? Thought please.
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- KVRian
- 1143 posts since 6 Oct, 2004 from berlin
One day, a while back, when I was in a store looking for a sample cd of single hit drums, I stumbled a cd of loops in the sample CD player. I recognized the loops immediately as being the major foundation to (and almost complete score of) a prominent TV advert. I guess people get lazy sometimes. I also guess the law is a little fuzzy in these situations.
Also, I thought it was hilarious that a bunch of the vocal parts from some successful happy hardcore tracks were directly lifted off of a Best Service vocal sample CD (like the vocals in DJ Dougal's "Got to go"). I mean, using the vocal sample stuff isn't that bad a thing to do at all. That's what it was meant for. It's just kinda funny.
Also, I thought it was hilarious that a bunch of the vocal parts from some successful happy hardcore tracks were directly lifted off of a Best Service vocal sample CD (like the vocals in DJ Dougal's "Got to go"). I mean, using the vocal sample stuff isn't that bad a thing to do at all. That's what it was meant for. It's just kinda funny.