Hey Everyone! Hope you're having a great week so far. Just wanted to share some news with you - I received a PRS payment this morning, and it turns out that I had my first sync placements last year! PRS has only just caught up, but my music was used on BBC Parliament as well as a couple of Romanian television channels. I've yet to find the actual placements (TuneSat is pulling nothing back at the moment), but I'll try to share them if I find them! As for the amount, it was by no means life-changing - but it was a very nice surprise this morning and covered the reasonably hefty car repair bill that I received yesterday! It's a start, and a real motivator to kick on and keep writing and releasing tracks across libraries of all different shapes and sizes. I'm also happy with the timings - the album launched last May (Q2 2025) and the placements came between July and September (Q3 2025). Obviously mileage varies, but it's nice to see that the tracks weren't sat idle for too long before they were used! Anyway, I hope this is a bit of reassurance for those of you releasing tracks and albums and waiting for the rewards to come back. Music admin is slow and takes time, so be patient and just keep writing! (Apologies to those who already saw this message in The Sync Circle, just wanted to circulate here too and say a huge thanks to @Alex Pfeffer for all of his continued support!)

Hey Everyone! Hope you’re all well. Just wanted to share that my new album, The Galaxy Still Dreams, released today through Amadea Music Productions. You can listen at the link below if you’d like - I’d love to know what you think! If you have any questions about the album or would like a breakdown of any of the sounds or tracks, please let me know and I can look into that! Have a great weekend whatever you’re doing, and I look forward to catching up soon! https://amadeamusicproductions.lnk.to/the-galaxy-still-dreams

Hey guys my first album Ashes of Tomorrow has been released today with Amadea Music Productions! Here is the spotify link if anyone is interested https://open.spotify.com/album/0dHScPvQgKsFFBXhJyrAXf?si=nugVL4kmSvqGfwJ5BvdGPw

Hey Everyone! One thing I've noticed in my own trailer track creation for libraries is that I struggle to naturally think of a good way to end the final act of a cue. I generally go down the route of finishing up with a suspended chord that resolves, held over a long count and constant driving percussion. But it often takes me a while to think up the exact detail to execute that. I'm wondering, do you guys have any 'go-to' methods/tricks/endings that you use frequently in your tracks? If you have any references, I'd love to hear them! I'm really trying to make track endings second nature, but also to discover new variations to try out. Thanks!

Hi Everyone and Happy New Year! Just wondering what some of your favourite realistic-sounding Piano VSTs are? My go-to in trailer tracks is the Felt Piano from Spitfire's Olafur Arnalds Toolkit, but I need something a little less soft for a project I'm working on. I've been using Addictive Keys from XLN Audio for years in personal projects, but I'm not sure it quite has the realism I want/need for this professional project. Though interested if anyone disagrees! Let me know your thoughts! I'm hoping not to break the bank on another piano, but I'd love to have something that sounds super realistic to slot into my wider instrument collection (Nucleus, Metropolis Ark, Damage 2, Gravity etc) Thanks all!