MOTM

>  Nobody seems to know synths exist or how to use them.

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There's also this "thing" that you have to get by with the public that 
often hires musicians/composers.

I've lost scoring jobs before, and when I called to ask why:

"Oh, you mainly use synths. We didn't want that."

"You didn't listen to the demo I sent you? That was a real 24 piece 
orchestra playing that."

"We heard you mainly used synths and assumed that's what it was. We 
needed something that sounded organic for our score. No synths. That was 
a beautiful piece, but we thought it was synths.".

"So, if you can't tell the difference between synths and other 
instruments, what's the difference?"

"Uhhhhh.... we just didn't want synths."

So, the show in question comes out, and they've resorted to LIBRARY 
MUSIC instead.

"We needed a big sound, and found we couldn't get it with the $500 
budget we had. Besides, we don't have to pay royalties for this library 
music."

Idiots...


At this point, all the video editors in town are now also the 
"composers". They all have Apple Garage Band. Anybody here that used to 
earn a living writing music has moved elsewhere or gotten into something 
else.


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Les Mizzell