two random questions

[RobertPeeters]

Hey guys!

Just two random questions here:

1) why is Invincible on CDbaby? They use this music on cool trailers for multi million movies, but the album is on the label that everyone can use?

2) When making the QL Piano library, is there one pianist (or person) who presses one note and repeats that one thousand times? or is it automated with a machine? (so that every velocity has the same volume?)

[Jeff Hayat]

Originally Posted by RobertPeeters

1) why is Invincible on CDbaby? They use this music on cool trailers for multi million movies, but the album is on the label that everyone can use?

Everyone can use? Listen to it, yes. Nobody can use it. Do you really think that when you pay for another artist's work, that you can use it?

[MCS]

Thats right. If you want to use it you normally have to pay licence fees and the broadcasting company has to pay royalties to the composers. This is how many of us earn money. It´s not like you buy a CD a have the right to use the music in any way.

[RobertPeeters]

LOL I mean that everyone can use the label. You just need to make an account, and you can upload whatever sound you made.
It's not an 'official' label, while the music is quite 'officially' used

[Jeff Hayat]

Originally Posted by RobertPeeters

LOL I mean that everyone can use the label.

LOL! That isn't what it sounded like...

[flickerflix]

But is not having a "label" really so bad. I can't speak to music royalties but I I can on book royalties. Essentially the author gets none. The book is discounted, no royalties. So, digital self-publishing is often more lucrative (not I did NOT say you can earn a living either way).

That said, I'd still like to read an answer to the second question....

[admin]

Originally Posted by RobertPeeters

2) When making the QL Piano library, is there one pianist (or person) who presses one note and repeats that one thousand times? or is it automated with a machine? (so that every velocity has the same volume?)

John Sawoski had the honor of playing every single note and velocity, no machines.

[christerholm]

Whoa! I always thought there was a machine that presses the keys in all the pre-programmed different velocities. That guy had quite some work to do

[MPDmike]

Originally Posted by admin

John Sawoski had the honor of playing every single note and velocity, no machines.

Wow, John must have one hell of a special finger - like a perfume sniffer's nose - how does he calibrate that! I hope EastWest have insured John's finger for a million bucks!

[JijGaat]

Haha, they don't have to since he already did the job