First off, I’m perfectly happy with what I have in my library at AJ. But I’ve recently had two rejections, classical solo piano pieces that AJ had a few versions of in the library. The only difference between mine and the existing versions is that I recorded mine on a real piano. So it’s a slightly different sound…both songs done this way were rejected on the basis of arrangement (their classical so the arrangement is set in stone) and the “samples/recording/mixing/mastering”. All other compositions submitted on sampled piano and accepted were done with one of the various sampled piano libraries I use. Kind of strange. Perhaps reviewers ears are just used to hearing sampled as opposed to real instruments now? Just a thought.
To give you my background, I’ve been a writer/producer/engineer for 30+ years. I use AJ for compositions written for TV shows that were later cut from the episodes…happens all the time.
I’m posting this simply to let others know to keep moving forward. I’ve scored (fully or partially) 3300 episodes of TV and I even get rejected here. So keep working and never take it personally.
