Production Music from Cut To The Beat

Cut to the Beat

Cut to the Beat offers great royalty free music coupled with simplicity. The whole catalogue is available for immediate download, and since it's royalty free; you pay once and can use it forever. Compositions from their library are heard on all of the major TV channels, including BBC1, ITV1, C4, Five and Discovery among others.

Royalty Free Music? What's that?

Generally speaking, royalty free music is a way of easily licensing background music for media projects (or anything else), providing permanent usage worldwide for a one-off fee and no clearance worries. Other terms used to describe royalty free music are: copy-right free music, background music, on-hold music, production music and library music.

There are many websites that sell royalty free music, however, the terms of contract can be slightly different and in some cases mean that the music can't really be described as royalty free, so it is important to read the license terms before purchasing.

At Cut to the Beat, the music is completely royalty free to the production company. Their royalty free music licence is very clear regarding what uses are allowed, and most uses are. The only condition if you are going to use the music for broadcast is that you fill out a cue sheet, which will allow the composers to collect revenue for the collecting societies through the broadcaster's blanket licence (costing you nothing).

Uses of Royalty Free Music

Royalty free music isn't just for broadcast; it can be used in many different ways. It's sometimes used for restaurant music, Powerpoint presentations, sound effects, online greeting cards and backing tracks for flash games. It is also useful for Podcasting without worrying about potential legal troubles.

The compositions themselves are used in a variety of ways, including full-length pieces, 30 second commercial cuts, loopable tracks and sound beds, meaning they can be useful for anything from a corporate video presentation to sound effects for games developers - a niche that Cut to the Beat service nicely with a specialist sound FX library.

Although royalty free music is mostly used for commercial applications such as these, it can also be an excellent source for sampling. As you can use the composition for anything you like, in any way you like and as many times as you like, without any legal ramifications, royalty free music could be your favourite source for samples when making your own music.