ChatGPT is giving you the wrong advice. If you want to get trailer tracks published, you need a reel with full tracks. Everyone involved in the trailer business will want to look at the waveform of the full track first. Only if that looks usable (i.e. has the proper structure), will they press play.

@Zach Broberg Can't remember which videos exactly, but he definitely touches on this point a couple of times in the trailer courses and I've heard him repeat the advice in AAR calls and in 1:1s we've had. Taking a step back, when putting a reel together you just need to take the wants and needs of your target audience in mind. Trailer tracks live and die by their structure, so that is what the reel must demonstrate. A game reel, on the other hand, needs to demonstrate succinctly that you can write for the various needs of a game (main theme, exploration, battle, etc). Different audience, different approach - though it can be the same music. My game reel consists of entirely of choice snippets from trailer tracks - at least for the moment. I'm going to have to write new material, as all the tracks in the reel have now been licensed to a production library. The price of success! 😅

So… when is this going to be integrated with Growbaze? 😍

The awards were retracted over the use of an AI generated texture (that was patched out shortly after launch): https://kotaku.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33s-loses-indie-game-awards-after-being-accused-of-lying-about-ai-use-2000655119 I'm completely torn about this topic. On the one hand, I believe that (generative) AI is here to stay and use of it is going to be a non-issue in 3-5 years time. Human art (in all its forms) will be considered to be of higher value, but no one will bat an eye at an album cover that is based on an AI generated image... At the same time, the current climate around AI appears to be very explosive, especially in the game industry (where I spend a lot of time). It's gotten to a point where companies get in trouble for posting "AI Programmer" positions, which is insane. AI Programmers within a game studio are those people who make enemies able to find their way around the level and behave in ways that makes games fun to play. Studios who are working on innovative new types of enemy behavior are having to pitch that to investors and publishers without using the word AI, because the using the word can mean instant rejection. Most non-technical people conflate "game AI" (path finding, state machines, etc) with "generative AI" (ChatGPT, Veo, Suno, etc). I don't think use of AI art in a reel used only to attract (B2B) clients is a hot button issue at the moment (heck, all the images in my own reel are AI generated... haven't heard a peep about that). However, anything consumer facing - YouTube, Spotify, etc. - is at risk of getting slammed by the anti-AI mob.

My desktop setup is a MacBook Pro that is docked to my external screen, audio interface and midi controllers via a powered USB hub. Detach the one cable and I’m mobile. (Do have an external SSD with additional libraries on it that stays attached when I take the laptop with me)

Like @Kristóf Fábián, I can recommend NI’s Noire or it’s successor, Claire, which has become my go-to since it came out. ALT Grand from Westwood Instruments if you need a thing with character. For a concert sound, the BBCSO Piano from Spitfire (was a separate add on when I got it).