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 […]
Cue the Music, Part 3: Royalty Free Music Under the Microscope
Cue The Music is a three part series examining the options available to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who wish to incorporate music in their productions. In Part One, we examined the process of clearing copyrighted music. In Part Two, we offered some alternatives to using copyrighted music. And in this Part Three, we will […]
Cue the Music – Part 2: Top 5 Music Resources On A Budget
In Part One, we looked into the process of using copyrighted music on a low budget short-run audio/visual project. In part two we are going to look at the Top 5 alternatives to using copyrighted music by seeking out available music from other sources. 1. Where Do I Start? There is an ever growing number […]
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 […]
Cue the Music, Part 1 – Using copyrighted music
“Cue The Music” is a three part series examining the options available to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who wish to incorporate music in their productions. Part one examines the process of clearing copyrighted music. Part two offers 5 alternatives to using copyrighted music. Part three examines the process of using royalty free music. 1. […]
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 […]
