Depending on the song and the element you could fade the
Master chain
Busses
or individual tracks
If I'm doing individual tracks I prefer doing them manually (fingers on faders)
I might have to check this pad controller out. I use to have an MPD16 back in the day. Made one beat with it and then sold it on Ebay. Nice tracks by the way!
The main differences:
YouTube: You have no control over the platform and I don't believe there is a way to accept payments through it as of yet.
Website: You're in control of everything: Functionality, email list, payment processor, design, etc.
If you want to showcase your music, I think both...
I had a chance to play around with the new Beatstep Pro. Here's some tips, techniques and a walk-through of the unit hope you like the video
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There's many ways to break in. The way I started was with Taxi and pumpaudio which helped land a few placements with UPN in 2003. Then there was a huge gap.. no placements for close to a year. So I signed up with other music pitching services and libraries which led to other placements and...
There are a lot of sites that offer this, the best thing to do is use google's search engine. I don't like competitions, nor do I like any site that requires you pay anything up front. Those are wheel spinners imo. I'm not saying it's impossible to land work through them, but the waiting sucks...
Everything works, you just have find what you like doing. I have a lot of success with email lists. I know people who swear by "facebook" I personally can't stand that platform. Some will tell you twitter, that might not be your thing etc e tc
Find the platform you like and make it work.
I wont discredit your professor, but the chances of someone ripping you off increases when you submit your other 'professionals'
I'm not sure what line of work you're in (music wise), but I do music licensing/sound design for a living. I'm always submitting music to libraries, music...