Our new “My orders” page Dear Shockwave-Sound.com users, This week we have launched a new website feature: “My orders“. This new page allows you to get access to all your current and past orders – with download links for all your orders. Our site has been online for almost 11 years now, and unlike many […]
Author: Bjorn Lynne
Bjørn Lynne is a Norwegian sound engineer and music composer, now living and working in Stavern, Norway. He was also known as a tracker music composer under the name "Dr. Awesome" in the demoscene in the 1980s and 1990s when he released tunes in MOD format and made music for Amiga games.
Artist feature: Pawel Blaszczak
Pawel Blaszczak is a composer who has been working with Shockwave-Sound.com and our internal music publishing company Lynne Publishing, for a good few years now. He has been responsible for producing some of the best selling tracks at Shockwave-Sound.com, including the track “Day After Day” which until recently held the position of the most often […]
Enhancing creative workflow with Sonar, Part 1
By Johan Hynynen Introduction Making music with a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) involves knowing both hardware and software very well — you just can’t escape music technology. This can be a show stopper for our creativity when we need to write music. Many times we’re also working to match short deadlines, so with that in […]
New music highlights at Shockwave-Sound.com
At Shockwave-Sound.com we keep adding new Royalty Free Music tracks every week, sometimes several times per week, so we aren’t going to write about it here every time we post some new music, but we’ve added a few tracks recently that I think are a bit special, so I wanted to give them an extra […]
Christmas hand bells music
This week we’ve had the pleasure of adding some rather different and interesting music to Shockwave-Sound.com. Christmas is coming up and, like every year, the interest for royalty-free Christmas music is peaking around October/November time – I guess that’s when everybody are working on their Christmas projects, interactive Christmas greeting cards, online Flash Christmas animations […]
Each track now has its own URL / link
A small site improvement at Shockwave-Sound.com. We’re occasionally asked if it’s possible to email somebody a link to a specific track at Shockwave-Sound.Now you can do this. When you are looking at a track listing, click on the actual (blue) track title. That takes you to a page which specifically displays only that track. The […]
Some new music subgenres at Shockwave-Sound.com
Dear Shockwave-Sound.com site users, Those of you with a keen eye who are regular users of our site, may have noticed that over this weekend we have added several new music sub-genres under the “Film scores / Soundtrack” main genre. When we first started our site back in April of 2000, it seemed like more […]
YouTube music use, music fingerprinting and advertising on YouTube videos
Hello all, We’re being asked a lot of questions about YouTube music use, YouTube’s “music recognition” system and how it relates to the use of licensed music, royalty free music, and “YouTube friendly music”, so I decided to write a few words about this somewhat complex issue. YouTube have developed a system in which they […]
Copyrights in Public Domain music and Classical music
Who owns the rights in classical music by composers such as Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven and Vivaldi? Is it even legal for a company to sell this music and make a profit on it? Shockwave-Sound.com owner/founder Bjorn Lynne sheds some light on the rights in classical music and traditional music. Why are companies such as ourselves […]
New ‘Advanced Search’ feature at Shockwave-Sound.com
Hi all, Until now, we have always just had a single, simple “Search” feature here at Shockwave-Sound.com. This was fine years ago when we had only a thousand or so music tracks and sound effects. But as the years have gone by, adding new music and sound effects every week, or catalogue has grown to […]
