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    Final Fantasy IX: Worlds Apart - History

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    I tink they'll expedite it if you tell em it's for an upcoming project. or so I have heard.

    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

    Quick Question on Reselling Music Software

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted · Edited by XPRTNovice

    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.

    Quick Question on Reselling Music Software

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Howdy. I've had quite the shit week last week. Main computer blew up, pet died for no reason, birthday present that was the only thing decent of the day since my wife's dad died on that day burned up, and then a ***damn tree fell on the house with the insurance company leaving me to pay out of pocket.

    In this context, I am temporarily even less competent and coherently thinking than usual and one of my probably useless ideas to recover some of the money I've lost is to try to re-sell some of my music software. This would include Komplete 6, T-racks 3, and maybe rcg:audio's Z3ta+ (before Cakewalk took it over).

    As I'm without my main computer, internet access isn't great for me, and I don't have the availability to look up all the feasibility of trying to sell that stuff on Amazon or Ebay or such. If anyone with experience in this can help me, awesome, if its as dumb an idea as I think it is, do not hesitate to state such.

    Thank you. Sorry for the dumb topic.

    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.

    Intimidation in music making software

    in Music Composition & Production

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    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.

    Your string gauge and favourite picks

    in Music Composition & Production

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    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.

    What is a day in the life of a (freelance) composer like

    in Music Composition & Production

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    @XPRTNovice: You're astonishingly mediocre at so many things!, .... I was wondering how do you have a life/work/ hobby balance? How demanding is your job and life in relation to writing music and fiction?

    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.

    What is a day in the life of a (freelance) composer like

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    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...

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