What programs/products can I use to monitize without additional costs?

DanM. wrote on 12/9/2020, 7:06 PM

Hi, I'm interested in purchasing a new music software production program, maybe Acid Pro 10. Before I purchase anything, I need to know which products will work for what I need to do. I'm trying to arrange music for my YouTube videos, using instrument and sound loops that I can compose, rearrange or alter, AND are completely royalty and license free for monetized use. I Do Not want to purchase any commercial licenses. I need to make sure that I understand this because I don't want to purchase and then find out I can't use it. Which program would be best for me to use? Which additional loops and sounds can I purchase and recreate that are royalty and license free WITHOUT having to purchase additional commercial licensing for monetization? Drag and drop is best, but I might also want create some of my own music using MIDI instrument notes drawn in, I don't have a Midi controller yet, but am looking at a mini Midi controller from Akai. I’m also wondering if I can upgrade to Acid Pro 10 Suite later? Is there download protection, or should I purchase the backup disk? My laptop is an HP with 300 GB free space, 8 GB RAM and Core i7. I appreciate any help, thanks.

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ericlnz wrote on 12/9/2020, 9:31 PM

You will probably get more replies if you post in the Audio section https://www.magix.info/us/audio-forum/

SP. wrote on 12/10/2020, 4:50 AM

@DanM. 

 I'm trying to arrange music for my YouTube videos, using instrument and sound loops that I can compose, rearrange or alter, AND are completely royalty and license free for monetized use. I Do Not want to purchase any commercial licenses.

You can monetize everything you make if you only use virtual instruments and create all soundloops yourself.

This is time intensive work!

If you use something else that was made by other people, for example premade soundloops, you have to check the license terms if you can use it for monetization purposes. Usually you have to buy a commercial Soundpool license to monetize songs you make out of Magix Soundpool loops. The commercial Soundpool license costs twice as much as the non-commercial license.

Be aware that ACID is primarly a tool to arrange premade soundloops in a fast and easy way. If you do not want to buy the soundloops this tool may be more or less useless to you.

A tool like Samplitude is primarly used to record musical performances, mixing and mastering them and to do some MIDI programming/editing and may be more suitable in case you want to make music completely yourself.