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I have recently been made away if TuneCore , which allows you to set up your music for sale through i-tunes and other online sellers…

The beauty of the service is that submitting your music costs a flat fee of $0.99  per track, which works out at about 60p after exchange. Once the music is available all of the royalties are paid to the submitter - unlike many other similar services which take a percentage.

TuneCore have Non-Exclusive rights to distribute your material, which means that you can continue to release the music on other formats which is great news if you are already running a small indie label. There is a danger as an artist however that record labels may not want to work with material you have submitted through TuneCore being as they often like exclusive rights and may already have channels to distribute digital music. But if you plan to go it alone, this is of no real concern.

To get started you can set up an account for free which will help you understand how the service operates and it is worth taking the time to read the full terms and conditions. So far I have only set up a free account, but do intend to use this service for the release of some future Arcade material, so when I do I will report back my findings. 

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Vince Clarke (from pop band Erasure) is relocating his studio and selling 160 items through ebay. To be fair I am not that much of an Erasure fan, however if you are AND you are into music technology then you should definitely check out this ebay auction page.

Happy bidding!

I have put together a quick and simple tutorial for the all new sidechain compression feature of Cubase 4.1 and Cubase Studio 4.1. This is only a couple of minutes long being as Steinberg have done a wonderful job of making it easy to use. This is my first video tutorial, so any comments about how it could be improved would be greatly recieved.

If you do not already have the latest you can buy a copy of Cubase Studio for £249.00 from Dolphin Music

Oh by the way some folk call this techinque ducking, being as the sound appears to duck under the other…(top tip)

Following on from the recent ER1 kit, I thought I would cpature a few more samples and drop them into a nice Battery 3 kit. Feel free to download the free kit and use as you see fit. Hopefully there will be some more of these coming in the future (when I get chance to sample some more stuff).

Enjoy!

X-Station

This isn’t really a local topic, but something which should interest users (myself included) who have had to put it with work arounds to get sidechain compression working within Cubase. Well friends you need work around no longer being as Steinberg have got their act together and finally made it a feature of Cubase 4.1 and Cubase Studio 4.1.

I am currently downloading my upgrade as I type and am looking forward to being able to get a pumping bass line going with far less hassle.

Music Geek speak done.

http://www.steinberg.net