A Rise member named Mike just posted this win inside the Rise community. Two years of writing for sync. First placement just landed, a track on a US golf show. The line at the end is what I keep coming back to: "Persistence pays off." That is the actual mechanic of sync. The track that gets picked is rarely your best one. It's the one in front of the right person on the right day, because you didn't stop sending. Mike took the lifetime spot in Rise because he kept showing up to the live calls and digging through the archive whenever he was stuck. The point of lifetime isn't access, it's that you stop having to think about it. A few Audio Artist Rise lifetime spots are open right now. If you want one, DM me and tell me where you're at.

Hey Artists. After a long break, I finally uploaded about 2 hours of new content finishing Track 02 - Latitude 67. In addition, I noticed that some of the videos in the B section part were in the wrong order. That's fixed now as well. Thank you everyone for your patience and support! Below you can watch the finished track.

Hi everyone, I’m working through how to take all the musical ideas and themes I’ve composed and turn them into a concise, cohesive album. I’ve traditionally written more conventional rock and electronic songs, but lately many people have told me that my instrumental work leans toward videogame or film scoring. I’d love for you to share your favorite portfolios, websites, and Spotify or YouTube links featuring full albums, original soundtracks, or composers you find inspiring, especially in the world of OSTs. I’m in a great place with my full-time job, which I truly enjoy, and I don’t want to shift into music composition as work. That said, my dream is to create sound design and music for a video game or film one day. Lately I’m also re-wiring how I think about structure, moving away from traditional intro-verse-chorus forms toward a more compositional approach. Any inspiration you can point me to would mean a lot. tl;dr share your portfolios and great OSTs or composers to check out, please. Thanks! ~M

I was planning on doing some social media shorts where I post videos and add my own written music to the video and been messing around with Grok video generation but the videos are limited to 5 seconds, even with the paid X.com $8 subscription. Does anyone know if getting the higher tier subscription (SuperGrok I think it's called) raises the duration of videos? I tried to make a longer scene, basically telling Grok to use the last frame from a video for the first frame in the next video generation and to make it a seamless and smooth transition, and then stitching together the 5 second videos into a longer one (with ffmpeg command line tool... lol I'm old school) ... but this method isn't ideal because the video stutters every 5 seconds. I don't know if it's a limitation of the tool I'm using (ffmpeg) and need to get an actual video editor or if it's a limitation of trying to glue videos together in this manner. Any way to fix this? Are there other video generation AI that can create longer videos? I'm guessing I have to pay...is there any free ones or are the free ones also limited to 5 seconds? I like Grok because I use it daily to research things, and the image/video realism looks fantastic. I get it that these things are still new and in active development, but the 5 second limitation is a real vibe killer and so far my attempts to work around it have failed. If I gotta pay I might just have to, but it would be nice if there is a free tier that I can mess around with first, but it's not necessary. Anyone know any good ones or what would you recommend/use?

Hi Everyone and Happy New Year! Just wondering what some of your favourite realistic-sounding Piano VSTs are? My go-to in trailer tracks is the Felt Piano from Spitfire's Olafur Arnalds Toolkit, but I need something a little less soft for a project I'm working on. I've been using Addictive Keys from XLN Audio for years in personal projects, but I'm not sure it quite has the realism I want/need for this professional project. Though interested if anyone disagrees! Let me know your thoughts! I'm hoping not to break the bank on another piano, but I'd love to have something that sounds super realistic to slot into my wider instrument collection (Nucleus, Metropolis Ark, Damage 2, Gravity etc) Thanks all!