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<p>Been wondering recently when <em>is</em> a good time to start selling your music?</p><p>I've always had the conception, misguided or otherwise, that you start to sell when you have a big enough fan base, but on my internet travels there's been a lot of information that stamps on my theory like a large workboot on top of a roach, so the question still stands.</p><p>A lot of <strong>authorities</strong> on the subject say an immediate profit should be made from your music, others say keep the barn door shut for a little while. I have to add the ones who say sell, sell sell like a Money dealer on uppers are part of independant record labels<img title="Yell" src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-yell.gif" border="0" alt="Yell" />.</p><p>One comment I found was to sell your music on one site and have for free on another! To me this is a little like giving the locals a freebie while ripping off the tourists.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Any suggestions?</p>

<p>Woken up by one heck of a storm at 3am and I'm still awake. For lack of things to do I thought I'd send a text message to my partner<img title="Wink" src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" /> saying that I was now wide awake because of heavy wind. She text back and told me to take an Alka Seltzer for it<img title="Laughing" src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-laughing.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" />. Glad to see I'm not the only one running at half capacity in the wee hours lol.</p>

<p>You can take that title anyway you like lol.</p><p>What a damn night with FL Studio! To be fair, it wasn't exactly the DAW that was giving me a case of PMT (Pre-Mastering Ticks!), although one snare refused to behave and kept sneaking up front like it was weilding an ax. No, it was an imported Vst from, I know, a damn good creator of them, DSK.</p><p>Synthtopia 2 is sweet, gentle and easy to program. Oh sir, it's beautiful, its also a memory sucking vampiric ****! Never had any problems with their other juicey materials such as Choirz, Guitarz etc. FL is an iron horse when it comes to adding on bobbles to it's dreadlocks, but once in a while it either gets lazy or jealous that you're ignoring Sytrus ands goes off on a hissy fit and refuses to talk to you.</p><p>Its favorite trick is to not switch off! Ram a Vst in there it's not best friends with and no matter how many times you hit the little X the music keeps on playing and FL welds itself onto your desktop like a horny leech trying to give ya a hickey!!</p><p>I will put my hand up and say DSK's Darkness Theory pad also gave FL the spit and bubbles until I figured out turning the sound down on the pad calmed Studio down a little.</p><p>Whether it's the PC, FL, or a VST who knows, but all the hair pulling, beard stroking, eye-watering, desktop thumping, mouse bashing, cat kicking events that go on....damn it's worth it!</p>