SANITY VALVE

Who I am now producing and semi-managing.

Check this shit bro.

It's fly.
Live gigs coming up:

26 Sep 2009, Hectors House, Brighton, 8pm
31 Oct 2009, The Hope, Brighton, 8pm

Volume automation if you don't want the tempo to slip.

Itunes album artwork is downloaded automatically by itunes from their own servers. There isn't really, at present, a standard format for transmitting art work. Since you aren't a signed producer, your artwork obviously isn't going to be on their servers!

Instead, what you can do is follow this guide to manually add your own artwork to your albums in i-tunes. Other people will have to go through the same process to get your artwork, mind!

Fair use is a concept well applied here. If you release the remix for free. and credit the group, band or artist you remixed, your work potentially stands under fair use, and therefore is legally covered.

If you're releasing to NG, it's fair to assume you aren't getting that much exposure so if anything, you are simply raising awareness of the original song, and thus are working to advertise the artist that you remixed.

At 8/31/09 02:08 PM, AniMetal wrote: 1.) How much money are you approximately making off your audio portal submissions alone?

Pennies if you rely on your audio submission alone. Pretty much all of the adshare I get on NG is from submissions using my audio, only a few dollars have accumulated from audio portal adverts.

2.) Is there any set length maximum for how long a audio track can be? Like, could I upload something say 15 minutes long if I wanted to as long as I made it?

There is no length limit, however there is an 8mb filesize limit. If you want to release a long track, consider doing it in parts as opposed to compressing it and killing the quality! Also you could always release a sample on newgrounds and have the full download somewhere else.

3.) As long as I credited the original artist or band in the authors comments, could I upload songs on the audio portal that are 8-bit covers? As in, turning metal songs into catchy Nintendo sounding tunes that could be used in plat formers and such.

Technically yes, this is covered under fair use. Generally speaking, if you use none of the original recording in your track, and provide credit, you are well within the bounds of tribute work, and therefore covered by fair use. Fair use also does, to an extent, cover remixing, even of commercial tracks, however for first submissions there tends to be a moderation sway for totally original work. You will not be banned for doing a cover, however!

Licenses are moving away more from single installation on single machine to one instance of the installation being in use at any one time - programs like cubase, record and such are using USB keys, meaning you can install the software wherever you like but only use it one place at a time.

You have submitted three tracks to the audio portal before, two of those were tracks ripped from the game Super Mario Land, which is against portal rules, thus you are banned.

At 8/25/09 08:38 PM, ZStriefel wrote: you have the right to stop them yes, but the point is copyrighting your music is protection.

You missed my point completely. You can declare something copyrighted even if you don't register it. The benefits of registering it are entirely perks. If you register a copyright with a copyright office, the office will stick up for you if somebody abuses the copyright. If you don't, you have to stick up for yourself, that is the main difference. It's basically like insurance.

4. Is the "poor man's copyright" (mailing it to yourself) a valid way to protect

your music? NO! You should register it with the U.S. Copyright Office.

Anything you create and put your name to online is covered by copyright. Anything at all. You don't need to declare it copyrighted (though it's a pretty good idea, and you don't have to pay for the privilege). Mailing it to yourself is a way to prove ownership and is a totally viable way of proving copyright - but unless you get ripped off by a high-profile company, you won't need it anyway.

Copyright claims are civil cases, it is up to the defendant to prove they created the material, not the accuser.

Copyright offices are just a more elaborate way of doing this - the office takes care of the material for you, adds a few extra services like managing flat-rate licenses, handling royalties and also provides holds and maintains your copyright even after you die.

Nobody on NG should even consider shelling out for commercial copyrights on their tracks, firstly because it's a waste of money, secondly because anything you post on NG is automatically covered under the FREE creative commons license, which is a legally recognized free copyright license, so your paid-for copyright wouldn't apply to the work anyway as released on NG.

TL:DR:

Anything you make is yours legally, regardless of whether you register a copyright or not. If somebody uses it outside of your terms of use, plagiarizes it and claims it to be their own or otherwise, you still have the legal rights to stop them.

There is a backlog on the approvals list at the moment, which hasn't happened for a while as a matter of fact. We're looking into getting through that as fast as possible as well as measures to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I looked up your submission, RadioAktivity and unfortunately I couldn't approve it as it used music samples from a copyrighted track from Dance Dance Revolution. Newgrounds is for origional music only.

Ok yeah, you're sort of right.

What happens is that the newgrounds audio player requires an audio device to play audio. If something is going wrong with your sound card, or you don't have one, you get the error seen here.

I think, Only I've managed to reproduce this by turning off my sound card, but it effects 100% of AP submissions as well as the audio player on the AP front page.

At 7/30/09 05:02 AM, Supersteph54 wrote: Yeah, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling CoolRecordEditPro, but it keeps saying 'NCT Audio Player not registered' which is strange because I didn't download NCT Audio Player :S.

Are you on vista? NTC Audio Player is not vista compatible. Use a different wave editor.

Either you e-mail an administrator, which might not yield very quick results, or you wait until the next AP update which will allow us audio mods to do it for you, which will definitely not yield very quick results.

If you get a message along the lines 'not registered', then you need to pay for the software.

If you get any other message, uninstall and reinstall the software.

It's broken my end! It must be broken for everybody!

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At 7/30/09 02:57 AM, Shintoku wrote: I don't mean to pick apart, but I'm pretty sure no piano has 200 keys.

I BEG TO DIFFER SIRI

I've got a xynex lying around, it's a nice desk but I can't really vouch for the audio interface that comes with it. Don't get me wrong, it works, but it's got a pretty high SNR for what it is.

Skullcandy
Good quality

hahaha oh wow.

Skullcandies are what's known as a 'massive joke' in the audio industry. Overpriced, mass produced generic headphones that cost more because they've got pretty patterns printed on the plastic.

Your music sounds rubbish on the earbuds probably because they're better quality than the headphones, making distortions and clipping more obvious.

Also a rule of thumb: Master on the medium that your listener will be using.

At 7/29/09 08:01 PM, architecture wrote: You want to see Midi cable hell? this is what a hassle can look like. now imagine chaining these to all the different synths I have.

You would use the same number of USB sockets to support the same number of devices - if not more because you can't chain USB devices like you can with MIDI Thru.

Also midi cables and plugs are a hell of a lot tougher than USB, ideal for live work. I still use USB for my controllers though, means I don't have to plug them in to the mains.

Vista is the worst operating system for sound recording. 7 isn't looking much better, it's forcing me to stick with XP.

They re-worked how sound drivers are applied to the system in vista to further help their own DRM system, disabling certain recording abilities, turning off some outputs while some inputs are engaged, that sort of thing, and on top of that put a terrible UI which gives nowhere near the control that you get from the simple sound mixer in XP.

Heck, even though there are a load of really high-end audio samplers that only work with 64 bit vista, I've only ever heard of them being used remotely over network controlled by an XP or a Mac host.

That being said, I don't see why you should have too many issues if you have yourself a small mixing desk with phono out plugging into a sound card or DI box with phono in. As long as the drivers exist, you should be fine.

The only people that can do anything about it are the people who own the tracks.

If the 360 has 5.1 output, then yes. If not, then no.

Also this is a forum for music production.

Melodyne is probably most suited for the job, if you can afford it.

At 7/28/09 09:19 AM, LuxuryEdition wrote: Yes it is mine. I used garageband, Roland fantonX6 and a yamha mo6 to make my songs. I know whats mine

In that case, resubmit it and actually put some useful information in the description field. Credit your vocalists, to start.

At 7/28/09 06:25 AM, LuxuryEdition wrote: Hey sorry to intrude on this thread but I'm also banned from the audio portal. I just wanna know the reason so I don't do the same mistake twice

Sounds like you submitted something that wasn't yours.

2/3 new hip-hop submitters to the audio portal get banned for their first song. Fact.

At 7/26/09 05:38 PM, Mattylightning wrote: well how do you expect me to get said covers up?

We don't. A cover is not a single additional instrument to a copyrighted track, a cover is a completely remade, sometimes restyled track.

and what happened to my song Two Faced? that was just a straight original from me on a guitar in drop c...

If you break the rules with one track, all your tracks are gone. That's just how it is. If you broke the law doing one track, we have to assume that you have broken the law somehow with all your other tracks, even if it isn't immediately apparent.

At 7/25/09 07:18 PM, EmperorCharlemagne wrote: Though it's a nice idea, 90% of the audio artists get little to no exposure as it is, so the stats would be REALLY one-sided in favor of a couple of people. Which, consequently, would give the little guys even less exposure.

You got that slightly wrong. The little guys would get the same exposure, not less. Also people who get on the top of statistics deserve to be there one way or another.

At 7/25/09 05:58 PM, FireSickle wrote: Thanks again!

I am patient. I'd consider a new account, but I think that eventually I can be unbanned just by being active in the community. Does this only ban me from the Audio section? I learned action script for my job (software developer) and started a game, I'm hoping I can post it when it is done.

It's not possible to unban you until the new audio portal tools are out, unfortunately...

You should not be banned from submitting anything else though!

I actually prefer malstrom and subtractor to thor. Thor is powerful, yes, and it can do a hell of a lot of interesting things, but the malstrom or subtractor paired with all the effects devices lets you do a hell of a lot more.