Dear everyone, first, thank you so much to everyone for signing up! This community is growing so fast, I am amazed. So in case you like the free courses and this place in general, feel free to forward the Audio Artist Community to everyone you know who might be interested! 🤗 Now, feel free to put your music, projects, demo reels, or portfolios in THIS post. Feel free to self-promote and enjoy each other's music! However, please keep in mind to keep it spam-free, ok? If you want to post several demo reels or links, please use your own post out of respect for everyone else 👍 Thank you, and there will be more content very soon! Alex

Years ago, I bought an expensive sample library. For me, at that time, it was a big purchase, not just money wise, but also in terms of storage. The library was around 400 GB, so I even bought a new hard drive just to be able to install it and keep it ready all the time. Once I set it up, it worked like a charm. The sound was great, the player was stable, and it quickly became one of my go to libraries. You know that feeling when a library becomes part of your musical identity? That was it for me. I felt like “Okay, this was totally worth the investment.” Then, a few years later, the company decided to upgrade their sample player and move on to a brand new product, basically a “Strings Version 2” kind of situation. New engine, new interface, shiny new features… And slowly, my original library started to feel like an afterthought, old player in town :). At first, it was small stuff: fewer updates, no real improvements, some compatibility quirks. Then newer OS and DAW updates came along, and the cracks started to show. The old player wasn’t really being maintained anymore(vst2), and suddenly this huge 400 GB library I had invested in started to feel like a “legacy product” rather than something truly supported. That’s the part that hurts a bit as a composer. I didn’t buy a subscription; I bought a tool I expected to rely on for many years. I don’t expect free new products forever, but I also don’t expect my existing purchase to slowly die because all attention moved to the next version. This experience made me think about a few things: - How much we depend on proprietary players and ecosystems - How important it is to keep old installers and working setups - And how “lifetime access” often doesn’t mean “lifetime compatibility” These days, when I buy a big library, I try to be more careful. I save installers, I bounce important parts to audio, and sometimes I even keep an older OS setup alive just for legacy stuff. It’s not ideal, but it’s better than losing a sound that became part of my musical voice.

https://youtu.be/AH2JRr_Mr3A?si=dNY9swjCpdQT4aDW Hi everyone, I never used any of performance samples libraries but to be honest they sound good so I kept them in my radar. Any thoughts of yours would help me before black friday 😅🙏🏻

Hey everyone, just checked my Trqk account and found that Final Eclipse from my latest Epic Score album was used in the show WWE Night of the Champions. However, the main reason why I am sharing this here: It is a good example on how they made use of the gaps and why the sound design/signature sounds are really important. Note the following: 00:13 - Using the gap to deliver the first message "Even better!" 00:40 - Using another gap later in the track for the final message "Just stop me!" 00:46 - the distorted higher roar and the last ping sound Sorry for the bad video quality, but these snippets are always included in Trqk to let you actually watch the scene your music has been used for. Always make sure to have: - an easy to digest melody - act1 - act2 - act3 - separated by gaps (build-up could vary) - sound design or sense making signature sounds/sound patterns - a clear focus on ONE SINGLE SENSE-MAKING IDEA

What do you think?