Some nice music tracks, TV Themes at Shockwave-Sound.com this week

Talented composer/producer Philip Curran has composed a series of 4 thirty-second tracks inspired by the intro themes to TV shows. These short, royalty-free music tracks can be heard online, and downloaded in MP3 or WAV files, from Shockwave-Sound.com -- including a license to use the tracks in your own productions (TV shows, YouTube videos, Podcasts, games and much more):

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 1: Fun and bright, upbeat and charming. Great for family programming, light entertainment, quiz show and more.

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 2: Fast and action filled, great for sports and "guys things"!

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 3: Cheeky and cheerful, memorable with a bouncy and happy whistling tune. Excellent for kids programming, childrens show, or just something goodnatured, with a little bit of humor.

Philip Curran TV Show Theme 4: Jazzy, cool, fun and funky. Again, great for things like daytime TV, leisure and hobby, maybe house makeover programmes and more.

Hope you enjoy these 4 nice themes.

Stock Music: Work stuff. Stock Sound-effects: Home stuff

Running a site for royalty-free music, and another site for royalty-free sound effects, has given me an insight into sales of these two types of products, and one of the things I've come up with is this rather interesting factoid...

Stock Music / Production Music sells most on the weekdays, less in the weekends. Stock Sound Effects seem to sell more on the weekends than on the weekdays. It would seem that mostly the people who buy Production Music / Stock Music are people working in offices, licensing the music for work stuff. Whereas people who buy Stock Sound Effects / Sound FX downloads, are mostly at home, working on some personal / weekend projects.

Guitars galore at Shockwave-Sound.com this week

Jeremy Sherman

Jeremy Sherman is an exceptionally talented guitarist and composer who is entirely self taught, and is one of the senior composer/producers here at Lynne Publishing. His music is always guitar based, as Jeremy likes to write and perform on a multitude of stringed instruments including the acoustic guitar, dobro, banjo, various electric guitars, basses and mandolins.

His music always feels organic, acoustic and human, whether it's latin music such as Andean Nights or Cantina, whether it's raw, southern blues-rock like in Shuffle Off , or it could be funny and upbeat hoe-down, country dance like in Take Your Partners or more contemporary country rock or country music such as Country Mile, Jeremy always delivers exquisite melodies and a feelgood, warm, homely sound.

We've been lucky enough to add 17 brand new tracks by Jeremy this week. As Jeremy is one of our signed-on composer/producers, we always keep his music totally exclusive to Shockwave-Sound.com for a minimum of one year before that music becomes available anywhere else.

If you are producing commercials, radio spots, fishing, hiking or outdoors videos or other projects that need an earthly, somewhat folky and wholesome feel, you really should check out the music of Jeremy Sherman. We're lucky to have him as part of our team.

General MIDI files live on

The General MIDI file format was created in the late 1980's by Roland (correct me if I'm wrong here) and it was essentially a way for music files to be made "interchangeable" between different music playback equipment. By agreeing that certain instruments / sounds were located at certain "slots" in the various keyboards and synthesizers around the world, it was made possible for a composer to have his music played back by somebody with different equipment, and still have the music sound, more or less, the same on that other equipment.

Now almost 30 years later, digital audio is all the rave and the General MIDI file format seems to be going out of fashion, but it's not dead yet. Some platforms still use the MIDI format and MIDI files, for example hand held game systems and mobile phones. If you are developing a game for mobile phones or other hand held game system, you may require MIDI music that can be legally downloaded and used within your game. The place to get that would be at the MIDI music area of the royalty-free music licensing site Shockwave-Sound.com. Here you can legally license and download MIDI music files that you can implement into your own media projects, such as games, videos, websites and more.

We just added 16 new MIDI tracks today, by Piotr "Jazzcat" Pacyna. These are actually more than just regular MIDI files, because in addition to the normal General MIDI file, you also get specially tweaked versions of the same MIDI music that's made to play back perfectly on various formats, including Alcatel / LG / Sagem phones and systems, MMF files, OTT files, Siemens phones, Sony Ericsson phones, SP-MIDI (that's the "regular" MIDI file) and SPF midi. All these different files and versions come included with any purchase of the Mobile phone MIDI music by Piotr "Jazzcat" Pacyna from Shockwave-Sound.com.