Welcome to my channel! My name is Steven Beddall and I write music for film, produce a variety of different types of music for online libraries, teach production techniques and provide insight about my life as an artist
If the discussion would be less about a sort of fantastical "AI" and more about the people and companies that use generative programs to automate new versions of existing music its been trained on, the debate would be settled long ago and the copyright slam would be instantaneous. But no, the debate must be of some intangible technology that lives on its own that is here to shape future culture. No, it isn't, its just a profit greedy business idea made by people. Edit: With the LLM's, its different. Because you can't really speak of intellectual property when it comes to language and editing sentences. That's fair and a basically very inventive and beneficial productivity booster IMHO, but image and sound (or in the future, physical products) automation based on previously published content or products is very different, and in my opinion illegal.
I'm revving up to start submitting to libraries, and this is some of the most clear and practical information I've seen about how to approach this process - thanks so much for sharing your experience and advice!
Thanks for the insight. Been a composer for years, and you popped up on my feed. the big royalty money is still in traditional network syncs and plays. Why? it’s because the system hasn’t been changed to favor streaming. I also suspect the composer of a CSI or other network show to make much more off the backend than someone with a midtier Netflix show. I’m sure it was flip someday, but I don’t believer it’s the case yet. Thanks for providing the community with your info and transparency.
Oh yes absolutely, streaming placements are worth a fraction of cable network placements, and they are harder to come by these days as streaming becomes more popular
The players are ok to generate midi phrases for other plugins but like anything else it won’t write the hits for you. You NEED to do that 😊Talent is key
Thanks for sharing, Stevie, definitely motivational for me! Also I love the new setup. Kinda gives the vibes of a cooking show for musicians 😂🧑🍳 What would you say is the average timespan from tracking a placement on Tunesat to receiving the royalties through your PRO? Also, have you experienced a longer processing time for international placements? In May 2023 I've started getting some recurring placements show up on Tunesat, although I didn't see any royalties from it yet. The songs were placed through my UK based library on German TV, while I am signed with BMI in the US, so I guess it is normal for the whole process taking some time. Although if the next royalty statement will still be empty I might start to worry 😬
Hey Frodo! Haha thanks man, love the cooking show vibes! 🤣 I think every PRO differs in terms of turnaround times, but I can say for sure that Tunesat tracked my placements well ahead of when they started showing up on my statements. I'm not sure if it's longer for international placements. Quite possibly.
Hey Steve. Always an eye opener seeing things like this, but more importantly, wanted to say a massive ‘thank you’ for sharing this info, buddy! Really grateful for that… 👍🏼😊🙏🏼🍻 All the best as always, Mike.
Congrats! I see 42%, so you did not go 50/50 on the writer's share (not talking publishing)? It seems like you gave up about 15% of your writer's share. Which would be fair for the 'in' at an influential library. I am in a 50% of writer's share deal, which I signed early on, and regret it, even if it was a strong library with good placements. I don't suggest anyone sign away 50% of their writer's. Thanks for all your vids!
Yup, spent two years with a close relationship with a library, 160 tracks or so, tracks that got placed December 2022 and I just got paid for those August 2024. They say 9 months, it can be a lot longer than that. But I know it's coming, and then those shows can play in multiple countries and for years. Oh, the trick for Tunesat is to cram a bunch of songs into one giant MP3 and you can actually upload a ton of songs, lol
SOCAN does pay for commercials that air in Canada but they have to be uploaded to BMAT to receive royalties as of 2022. Almost every country does pay for commercials in their own territory and they will relay the money back to SOCAN to pay you. Commercials aren't always tracked with cue sheets, it's tricky. Every channel uses different services to detect what is airing like soundmouse, BMAT ect..
@@Afilion Gotcha, ya I’m seeing more commercial placements pop up on my statements these days, and they’ve all been outside of Canada. I’m not sure why the SOCAN rep I spoke to would have told me otherwise.
"I always wanted a pedal steel guitar.." that was always my dream too when i was young. Not in a country style playing way but more like in pop, Jeff Baxter was my hero back then, with his magical playing on the earlier Steely Dan albums. But the future had other plans so i became an more ordinary guitar player. But yesterday i stumbled upon Ink Steel wich was on a discount and fell in love. I cannot read chords, notes or score but im am sure i will find my way with this fantastic plugin. Started to learn about diatonic chords etc. This is fun! Thanks for sharing!
Interesting, but it's funny how so many young people continue trying to re-create music from the past (Disco / 808) instead of trying to compose something new. I've been composing for 50 years and after using Logic's new features, I'm sure it will help young musicians that know nothing about music theory to get something together but I'm not really sure that it is going to improve there musical ability in the long run.
Thank you for these great suggestions! I'm sort of in "rebuild" mode as a freelance composer. I've had some nice credits in the past and I'm trying to get back into it. I'm not sure the best way to reach out to companies/people. Is it still email? Or something else? Thank you.
Identifyy is a scam. you cant authorize your own channels unless you meet $100 per quarter earnings. so unless you get thousands of people unauthorized using your tracks, you will be locked out of your own youtube channel for 3 years and if you dont remember to discontinue identifyy they will auto renew you another 3 years obliigation..... scam scam scam!!!!
My dad used Cakewalk in the 90s. My first cipy was Sonar 6 lol. Now, I primarily use Fl Studio and been trying a demo of Cubase. I can't get used to Cubase workflow, though.
I have given up with MA with their tedious application system making you wait months just to be turned down. And yet I have had great success with other libraries for 15 years. I can't be bothered to wait 6 months to apply again. Sales are dropping off everywhere now anyway as AI, zillions of plugins kills off real hand played musical instruments and home made samples and loops. Good for you if you are.making good money.
Hunter's vocals are great in your track ...was nicely surprised by your use of the Fink guitar, and blending that with the original Heart and Hollow plus your own live playing ...it all hangs together so nicely. I don't know how everyone else listening feels, but when you're rolling ...the track pulls at the heart ...I'm not absorbed by the tech making it happen (even though that's what I was watching your video for). Thanks for doing this!
@Steven_Bedall PD Space Guitar Synthesizer is out on macos/windows. It is a polyphonic direct synth for guitar, and I think you'll like it: it does a lot of the athmopspheric stuff you demonstrated here, but then with normal guitar as a source.
Congrats to you. I had no idea you can make money on motion array I have an account and I don’t see anywhere to contact anybody nor do I see anywhere to sign up or whatever you do to upload your original songs to sell on motion array could you please advise thank you.
