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Ok, cool, I'll check with Fishy and see if I'm good to send them. But I can only send 1 at a time, right? Or do they make exceptions for that, too? I have 2 tracks on this project. ONE OF THEM INCLUDES TIN WHISTLE OMG

But judges decisions take like...8 months now. Is there even a point at this point in the project?

What kind of hurt and where? If it's muscle cramping or just soreness, it could be due to the skill atrophy. But if it's joint pain, STOP.

lolz. I should have requested jerky as payment.

err, should we be subbing to the judges panel? I'm not familiar with album protocol

And I like shiny objects.

Aw, man, did you make me Gau because you think I'm useless and have a speech problem? Great trailer!

Happy birthday to all!

So I think Esto Gaza is done unless Fishy has any more feedback for me. Do you need that Wav still? Cid's theme on the other hand...I handed in a WIP a while ago with a brand new ending; are we cool?

happahbaddah!

It took me less time to google this than it would have for me to bitch at people who were trying to help you. KOMPLETE 6 from the NI Forum 1) You can sell your Komplete 6 product as a whole. You can not sell the individual pieces of it since it is all under the same master Komplete 6 serial number 2) You can not sell it if you used your ownership of Komplete 6 to buy an update version of Komplete 7 3) If the your Komplete 6 was an update or upgrade version (i.e. you used your ownership of another NI product to qualify for the reduced-price update/upgrade) then that product must also be included in your sale 4) To transfer the license you need to contact NI Registration support and have them remove/delete your Komplete 6 license from the NI Registration database. The new owner will not be able to register/authorize the software until the Serial Number is removed from your NI account. 5) There are no product transfer fees. From T-RACKS Website In order to transfer an IK Multimedia software license to another person, the current rights owner must purchase a "License Transfer Credit" in IK Multimedia's online store. If you already have one, please go to the User Area > My Products > (product name) > License Transfer. Paste your License Transfer Credit number in the proper empty field, and click Transfer. If you do not have one yet, please purchase a "License Transfer Credit" in the IK Multimedia's online store. Only OEM versions and versions bundled with third-party products can be transferred free of charge and without a "License Transfer Credit". After the license transfer has been completed, the previous rights owner is not allowed to retain any copy of the media. Please contact IK Multimedia Support if the product you wish to transfer is not listed in your account or if you are having troubles on transferring your license.

I don't pay attention to it. I just avoid carbs that aren't found in fruits and vegetables.

I'm definitely going. Wishy-washy on the room issue, though; I only live 20 minutes away.

For EWQL composer's collection, I got kind of effed. I bought it secondhand, and even though I asked the person if I could transfer licenses and he said yes, when I emailed EWQL about upgrading they said, "Yeah, you're using that illegally. Our End User License Agreement says NO TRANSFERS." So it's program dependent. That doesn't mean, however, that someone won't buy it, because they probably will.

Happy birthday!

Chernabog is (essentially) Russian for "Black God".

I don't see the issue here...

Modus - I am a professional voiceover artist with over 20 clients under my belt. PM me if you want something.

I don't know what Vice Pretzel entails, but I'll take the free hugs!

Watching youtube videos of people creating music really helped me, as well as watching videos of people explaining the DAW and some neat features. Zircon's youtube channel has at least 2 live mixes, where he walks you through it from start to finish, and he uses FL studio. I know there are more people around here who do that sort of thing (and I love to watch them so if anyone knows any please post) but it's a great way to see masters work for free in the comfort of your own home. You can even replicate what he's doing step by step on FL as you go, learning by osmosis.

On my Martin HD-28, I use medium gauge d'addario acoustic strings. They pair very nicely with the deep boom of the Martin. I use a shingle pick for that, 2.5mm. I grew up as a bluegrass player, so anything not rigid typically doesn't do it for me. If I'm doing strum patterns, I might switch to something floppier. On my Gitane D-300, I use some sort of jazz strings that I've forgotten and a Dunlop Primetone 3mm pick made out of the skulls of my enemies. Mandolin: I use martin mandolin strings, medium gauge, and a David Grisman "Dawg" pick.

Fixed. To MX's point, yes, be careful about saying you do everything unless you can back it up. With my fiction sales, and my voice acting testimonials, and my music testimonials, I can. I would build one at a time. I have a very steady day job that has steady hours and not a whole lot of unpredictability. So, I know for a fact that I can spend my nights and weekends creating. And I'm not pressured to create, because it's not putting food on the table. My wife, who doesn't work, gives me time I need and I make sure I give her the time she deserves. There's balance in that, too, especially with the new kid around. But I make it work. Here are some points of advice from my very limited experience - TIME. FUCKING. MANAGEMENT. If you can't manage your time, you're finished. You'll be up to 3 AM every day and you'll want to die. If you manage your time well, 30 minutes of writing can be monumentally productive. I've been known to write 3,000 words in an hour if I only have one hour. If your writing time consists of you clicking through facebook, you're doing it wrong. - When you're done managing your time, manage your resources. Know your limits. As tempting as it was to play in 2 bands, remix for OCR, be the music director for the FF7 fan movie, actively advertise my skills as a composer, audition for 30-40 voice jobs a day, and write novels and short stories...some things have to give. I've slowed down the number of projects I'm taking on and mentally understanding where I am putting the focus on developing. - When you get bored at work, if you're not being derelict in your duties, write or edit some of your literature. Brandon Sanderson's path to writing a monumental amount of fiction was taking a job as the night-time receptionist at a hotel. He literally had like 10 hours of uninterrupted writing time EVERY DAY. - Network. Reach out and talk to people. Take a couple of jobs for free and then plug that person for other work. Errrmmm...that's all for now.

I'm a triple freelancer with a day job - I write, I do music, and I'm a voice actor. I haven't been doing it for very long, but I can give some ideas on my experiences, maybe. I will caveat this by saying that I'm not trying REALLY HARD in any of the freelance parts. They're side jobs; I do them as they come. I don't need the extra income so bad, but it's nice to have. The common theme I feel about all of these is that the goal of my freelancing is to stop freelancing. In writing, my goal is to sell novels to a Big Six publishing company and get contracted to write more books. Unfortunately, that makes freelance writing difficult. Novels are big projects that take a huge amount of time, and it leaves no room for me to sell short stories to magazines. Even if I devoted all my time to short story writing, the odds of me selling enough fiction every month to support myself is slim. In writing, the only method I've ever known for people to make a living freelancing has been to be the .00001% that hits it big self-publishing (see Amanda Hocking for a case study). In voice acting, my goal is continuous clients on larger projects. I started doing this in February of 2013, and in the last 4 months I've probably made $1k/month freelancing - but that's pouring a LOT of time into auditioning for parts. I've auditioned for OVER A THOUSAND. Now, though I have 2-3 continuous clients who are always sending me work. Not enough to live on, still, but enough for me to start putting money back into the business and building up things like a website, demo reels, etc. My music goals are the same as my voice goals; I want continuous clients and big projects, not little piddly things. I don't see this as the major source of income because things that approach a salary are things like teaching and working for companies. I don't want to do that with music. So you can see my Triad of Naivety. I have a steady day job, but the major goal is to leave it by: supporting myself by winning publishing contracts and supplementing that income with steady projects voice acting and musically. Talk about pipe dream, right? I'm trying to "make it" in not just one but THREE starving artist professions...

Neat stuff, thanks man.

Step 1: Wake up and go to your real job I'm not a full time freelancer and I don't know that I ever will be, but I recently had a conversation with someone who was, and this is what he told me: