With Christmas around the corner, I wanted to give back by sharing with you the MIDI transcriptions that I've made over the past few years on my Composing Live! streams. I've been quietly building a collection of transcriptions that I've done for personal study from scores like Harry Potter, How To Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Elf, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain and more. Each of these come with a reference video and a free midi download file, no strings attached. With these MIDI files, you can plug them into your DAW and reassign expression maps to them to fit your orchestral sample libraries, or test out new sample libraries that you've bought over the Black Friday weekend. Some of the sample libraries I've used for these include CSS, CSW, Spitfire Symphony Orchestra, EW Hollywood Opus, Pacific Ensemble Strings, Tina Guo Solo Cello, CS Cineperc, CS Dulcimer, CS Randy's Celeste, Omnisphere, Zebra, Diva, and more. Here's a sample of Hedwig's Theme: https://www.sohncompositions.com/store/free/hedwigs-theme-hp For the whole collection (28 with more coming in the future): https://www.sohncompositions.com/store/free Happy Holidays & Happy Studying!

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Hi everyone, I saw with this youtube post: https://youtu.be/u9lnUyXsAIE?si=x51i3gW1OA-QXHQl So to sum up what’s going on: Context of the lawsuit : - Warner (plus its labels) sued Suno in June 2024, accusing them of training their AI on Warner’s catalog (decades of masters) without permission or payment. - Suno’s defense was the usual AI line: “it’s transformative, it’s fair use, we’re not copying, we’re teaching a model.” - Everyone in the industry watched this case because it could become the “can AI train on our music for free?” precedent. What the settlement actually does : 1-Artist opt-in for training: Warner artists can now choose whether their voice/name/likeness/catalog is used to train Suno’s models. That’s huge symbolically: it introduces consent-based training at a major label level. But he points out the power imbalance: will smaller/younger artists really feel free to say “no” to their label? 2- New licensed models from scratch: Suno will build new models (aiming for 2026) trained only on licensed Warner material. The old “possibly trained on everything without permission” model still exists in the wild, and Warner doesn’t get retroactive compensation for that. 3-New usage rules / monetization caps: Free users can generate/stream/share. Paid users can download with new limits on how much they can generate and how they can use it commercially. But it’s not clear whether a paid user can safely generate music and license it for a TV show, ad, game, etc. That lack of clarity is a nightmare for music supervisors trying to clear rights. 4-Lawsuits dropped, no one admits fault Warner drops all claims, Suno doesn’t admit guilt. Classic settlement. Why this matters for musicians / sync people It proves that labels can force AI companies into licensing deals. So the “scrape everything and claim fair use” era is getting pushed back, at least politically and commercially. For composers and libraries, this is partially good: it shows AI companies can’t just hoover up your catalog with zero consequences.

Audio Imperia and Orchestral Tool started their Black Friday sale! Native Instruments as well (but only upgrade bundles for now). Anyone buying anything?

Hi friends, I have no doubt that you would know such a legend from the gaming-music industry, and I don’t mean anyone other than Akira Yamaoka. Since I don’t have time for games anymore and I played Silent Hill 2 when the sequel came out back in 2001, and I absolutely fell in love with the game. I played through it about ten times and saw all the endings. And that music really resonated with me back then too. Only now that the remake from Polish studio Bloober Team came out recently, I got my hands on the completely reworked soundtrack with 93 tracks. Well, it ended up with me having to order the 6LP version, which will be released in the fall. What do you think about the soundtrack? It’s available in full on YouTube. https://youtu.be/Q47veZhrMW8