I've seen the light - I won't be making more music anytime soon.  I wouldn't be going out on a limb too much to say that the rest of 2010 will be production free.  This prolly wouldn't be the case if any of the 3 or 4 licensing services that accepted my music actually came through with some income, but they aren't doing as well as Pump Audio did right after Getty Images bought them.  Actually, they aren't doing anything.

Earlier this summer, I was totally set on Zebra.  It was modular, could do a wide range of sounds, and there were a lot of great presets showing it off.

But I'm glad budgetary restraint kicked in as there were 2 hitches:

So Pump Audio/Getty Images dropped royalties from 50% to 35% recently, citing their inability to run their business effectively (they need to 'support' their workforce, which means they have no idea how to sell music like they sell photos).  I figured it was found money and ok for a couple of surprise checks a year, until I discovered something worse: they republish stuff and take the credit as artist.  So the chances of me gaining some recognition through their efforts are ZERO.

I signed up with Pump Audio in 2006, thinking it might be cool to have some of my tracks licensed.  Especially if they ended up on a nature documentary.  My stuff was accepted and nothing happened at all.

Then Getty Images bought Pump Audio, and I figured nothing would improve.  Getty's MO with their image business is to sign up as many photogs as possible and then promote a few big names, shafting the small ones in the process.  I assumed the same would happen to me at Pump Audio and I planned on pulling my music.