At Shockwave-Sound.com we represent about 150 different music composers/producers who receive their royalties from us quarterly. We’ve been using Paypal Mass Pay to pay out their royalties and the Paypal fee for this has been capped at $1 per recipient. So when we sent out royalties to 150 receivers, it cost us $150. No problem. […]
Hanzi Warrior game with royalty-free Chinese music
From time to time we like to give a mention to a project where we feel that our customer has used our music in a cool way, or in a nice project. One such project is the new iPhone and iPod Touch game, “Hanzi Warrior“, up for release on 11/11/11, including our royalty-free Chinese music […]
Some thoughts behind our ‘Suggested Production Types’
The “Suggested Production Types” music browsing tool is something that we introduced to our site quite recently. We used to have just a list of Music Genres (Jazz, Rock, Classical, Ambient…) and nothing else. But searching for the right music for your project can be more complicated than that. You may not know exactly which […]
Increase your 3D animation impact – How to strengthen and intensify your 3D animations using royalty-free sound effects and music
By Mike Efford Audio intensifies 3D animation. It gives spatial depth and atmosphere to an animated production, fleshes out character, and generally breathes life into it. There are ways to make the most of that combined energy, to take an animation to a higher level of intensity with good audio, and that’s what we’re about […]
Have Yourself A Merry Royalty-Free Christmas
It’s almost Christmas time again and we can see that time coming, as people start buying royalty free Christmas music from our catalogue. Tracks like “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, “Jingle Bells”, “Silent Night” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” are so popular that many of our composers have made their own versions of […]
Lifeyo has made cool content management
Lifeyo has made a cool Content Management System / Website building tool that makes it easy and fun to make your own website and blog. Putting together the YouTube video that demonstrates their service, they came to Shockwave-Sound.com for royalty-free music. We really liked the video and thought we’d post it here too. Notice that […]
Finding your picked tracks on a different computer
We are occasionally asked how it’s possible to make a list of favorite tracks, and then find that list on a different computer. You may be browsing music from home and wish to make a list of bookmarked tracks that you would like to come back to when you’re in your office, to actually make […]
Royalty Free Music for Weather Channel / Weather Forecast
We’ve added a new “Suggested Production Type” to the music browsing tools at Shockwave-Sound.com: “Weather Forecast”. Here we present music that we feel goes well with TV Weather Forecasts; you know the type you can see on CNN and other broadcasters where they just display the weather in different parts of the world. Here are […]
New preview player with waveform display
We’ve designed and released a new and updated preview audio player here at Shockwave-Sound. The new player features a graphic waveform display so that you can see where the music gets louder and quieter. Useful if you need to plan the use of the music in your project, how it will match up with your scenes etc. […]
Shockwave-Sound.com music making good in Aralon
From time to time we get whiff of a project where we think our music is part of something really pretty cool, so we want to brag about it a little bit. 🙂 Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD is a role playing game for the iPhone and iPad that looks and plays more like what […]
