Royalty Free Music. Pay Once - Use Forever
Cut to the Beat offers you the some of the best royalty free music available. It's available for immediate download, you pay once and then you can use the music forever, worldwide. Our royalty free library music is heard on all of the major tv channels including BBC1, ITV1, C4, Five and Discovery to name a few. Our royalty free music is also available for radio, commercial, film, multimedia and internet use. In fact, just about any media production that requires original, inspiring music without the hassle of clearing rights can use our royalty free music.
Royalty Free Music? What's that?
Generally, royalty free music is a way of easily licensing background music for your production without clearance worries. Often you pay a one-off fee which allows you to use the royalty free music in all your productions without additional costs, including worldwide distribution. The terms copy-right free music, background music, on-hold music, production music and library music and are often used to describe royalty free music.
Many websites sell royalty free music, however the terms of their licences can be very different and the term royalty free music is sometimes used quite loosely so you need to read the small print. Some licenses contain significant limitations of use and cannot really be described as royalty free.
At Cut to the Beat, our music is completely royalty free to the production company. Our royalty free music licence clearly states what kind of uses are allowed (most uses are!). If your production is for broadcast, one of our very few conditions is that you fill in music cue sheets and include our music on them. This does not cost you anything and usually does not cost the broadcaster anything. It simply allows our composers to collect revenues from broadcasters' blanket licences (which they have already paid for).
Uses of Royalty Free Music
Royalty free music is used in applications as diverse as restaurant music, sound effects for powerpoint presentations, catchy tunes for online greetings cards, and backing tracks for flash games. The music can take the form of full-length pieces, 30 second commercial cuts, sound beds, and loopable tracks.
DVD presentations, corporate videos and Podcasting are just some examples of deploying royalty free music to good effect. Consumers are well used to hearing telephone ‘hold music’ from call centres, and many product micro-sites use musical themes and spot effects taken from music libraries like ours.
Games developers find our sound FX resource library very appealing, since our ‘pay once, use forever’ music license greatly simplifies their legal paperwork when it comes to licensing the game and its soundtrack across multiple platforms, including mobile phones.
Similarly, the original pieces found in our database are a big hit with TV and film producers seeking contemporary musical scores and royalty free music (also known as library music), often using a combination of loops, hits and stings to accompany the on-screen action.
The time saved by sourcing audio content from ‘buyout music’ or ‘royalty-free’ sources such as Cut to the Beat can dramatically cut production costs without compromising on standards.
Of course, our royalty free samples and sounds are not just useful for linear ‘sound to picture’ and dubbing applications. Once purchased, the music can be sampled, re-cut, timestretched or layered with other musical elements to produce entirely new compositions and derivative works, all the while avoiding usage fees and the legal minefield of music production credits.
