Is a laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz CPU and 4GB of RAM good enough for music production? Running programs like abletonlive with vsts? Is it really necessary to get a faster CPU or 8GB of RAM?
yes this configuration is perfectly ok, but if you want to install some advance softwares then you can go for advance configuration. I find this article at internet may be it is helpful for you. link in the source
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Mar
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Roxio MyDVD Video Lab 10 is a basic video editing software to create home movies. Whether you’re an old pro or have never edited video before, you’ll instantly feel right at home with MyDVD Video Lab 10.Beginners will love using the step-by-step guides that help you create finished projects with just a few clicks. More experienced users can choose from professional-level tools for customizing their productions. Edit and create moviesUpload to YouTubeProduce stunning slideshowsOver 30 DVD menu templates, transitions, and effectsThe Video Lab 10’s CineMagic feature automatically turns your raw video clips and digital photos into a polished production. You simply identify the clips and pictures you want to use, make a few quick selections, and the program does the rest!Its easy to transfer video and digital photos to your PC, author DVDs, and upload videos to YouTube or portable devices. Transform your still photos into beautiful widescreen slide-shows with pan and zoom motion, multi-image photo collages, titles, narration and a background soundtrack.Set your productions to music in minutes. Plus, built-in SmartSound software can automatically add fully orchestrated music and sound effects with just a couple of clicks. Even novices can easily have a Hollywood-style production ready to share via email, internet, portable media player or DVD.
Mar
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If you want to use music for your website, in multimedia or traditional media productions you need to know about music licensing. Website designers, video makers, TV show producers and all other creative artists are constantly looking for music in their productions.
It’s important to understand what copyright means, how it applies to music, and how you can obtain the rights to use music for your production. Terms such as “royalty-free music” and “synchronization licensing” get tossed around loosely, and this adds to the confusion. Hopefully this mini-tutorial will shed some light on this.
A Tale Of Two Copyrights: Composition And Master
Copyright is intellectual property. If you own the copyright to something, it means, quite simply, that you have the right to decide who can make a copy. Copyright is the right to copy. Obviously it’s more complex than that but we’ll keep it basic for now.
In terms of music, the key thing to understand is that each recording of music actually includes two distinct copyrights:
1. The copyright in the song itself, or the musical composition, or simply the Composition. This means the rights in the words and music of a song, and is often referred to as the ‘Publishing’ rights. Think of an old-school songwriter sitting at a piano, writing music and lyrics to a song. That song exists before it is recorded. Often musicians (especially in electronic music and hip hop) have a hard time grasping this distinction because they write music while they are producing it – sitting at their computer. Copyright is formed when you write a song, by virtue of the fact that it is new and original and takes a graphic form, such as writing down the lyrics or doing a demo. The copyright in this Composition is owned by whoever wrote it.
2. The copyright in a sound recording, also known as the Master. The Master is a Recording of a Composition. The copyright to the Master is owned by whoever produced it. Often this is a record company. To illustrate this, think of a famous song such as “Georgia on my Mind”. Each record company that produces a version of that song owns their own recording (the Master), but the fundamental rights to the composition remain with the original composer, who owns the Composition – the copyright of the song itself.
Synchronization And Master Use Licenses
Normally, since there are two copyrights involved, two licenses need to be issued to make use of a recorded song:
1. Synchronization License: gives you the right to ’synchronize’ the Composition with images or voice-over in your production.
2. Master Use License: this is exactly the same rights as the synchronization license, except it applies to the Master, the actual recorded interpretation of the musical composition.
Since the composer usually owns the Composition and the record company owns the Master, two different negotiations often have to take place, with two different contracts, for a song to be used in a Production. This can lead to complicated and time-consuming negotiations.
If a single company owns or controls the rights to both the Master and the Composition, this is called a One-Stop-Shop. This means that the company can sign both the Synchronization license and the Master Use license, which is less complicated and more attractive from the point of view of a website designer, an audio-visual show producer – or anyone who needs production music.
Most royalty free music libraries are such One-Stop-Shops since they control both the Master and the Compositions of the music on their website. Purchasing royalty free music means that once you have paid the one-time fee, you can use that music as many times as you want for as long as you want without ever having to pay additional money to the licensor.
It does not matter if one visitor or 100,000 visitors come to your website; or if the music is used for 3 months or 3 years – the purchase fee is exactly the same. If a piece of royalty-free music is purchased for use on a TV show, there is only the one-time fee, it doesn’t matter if the show is presented 5 times or 1,000 times. The TV show producer will never have to pay any additional fee for the music. This saves time and considerable expense.
Royalty free music does not mean however that anyone gives up their copyrights or their rights to administer a song. For instance, if you purchase a music license for a film project which goes on TV, the composer can still collect public performance royalties for the TV performance since these are paid by the broadcaster,and not by you the producer. The music may be offered on a royalty free basis but is not copyright free. The music composer and the publisher remain the copyright owners.
We hope this short article helps you understand the basics of music licensing.
Gilles Arbour
http://www.articlesbase.com/multimedia-articles/royalty-free-music-licensing-copyright-120537.html
Mar
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I want to be a big time Music Producer one day with the likes of Scott Storch, timbaland and so on but I don’t have a clue how I would go about starting my own Music Production Company so where would I start? How do I actually get a business started?
In the music business you have to get noticed.
If you make really good productions you will get noticed
Make around 5 tracks with a vocalist/rapper
Contact a promotion company and if your good enough they will pay to promote you
The best thing in this game is to establish relationships with people in the scene and keep in regular contact
Mar
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Ableton Suite 8 Music Production Software New in Ableton Suite 8 Ableton Suite 8 is a package which gives you a rich world of sound, perfectly complementing the tools and features in Live 8. Suite 8 provides all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a
Mar
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Im changing my major from pre-med to music production and I am from Michigan. Im looking for a school in or around my area that is well known for music production, if you could let me know, that would be great. Thanks 
Decent schools for Music Production are: Berklee (Boston, MA); Skidmore (also just a good school overall); CSU Pomona; Hartt School at U Hartford; Duquesne (Pittsburgh, PA); SUNY Fredonia…
The best of those is Berklee.
Mar
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http://www.realcoachingradio.com How to master lighting and planning for video production http://www.rcrn.info
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I’m looking to obtain a loan for my music production company. I wanted to know if by any chance there is a site..or a way i can look at some possible samples of Business Plans. Especially if there are any plans Relative to Music Business/Production.
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