New Music from Roman Zavada

New music from Roman Zavada
Roman’s piano compositions are passionate and sensitive. His style is very fluid and upbeat, and reminiscent of the romantic days of old. His own story has some of that same feeling. His mother was a piano player, so Roman learned to play as soon as he was tall enough to reach the keys. He created his first composition “White Lion” at age 4 and has never stopped composing. He was admitted to the Conservatory at 12, but felt confined by the Institution and chose to develop his talent independently. His work is a rare and special treat – enjoy!

New Feature - FAVORITES

New Feature
Thanks to your suggestions, we keep improving the site with new features and new music. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks...

FAVORITES

While listening to a loop or a full track, you can now "Add it to Favorites" in the preview window. Your browser will automatically remember all the music you add to this section. Your favorite selections will be there for your next visit at Premiumbeat.com as long as you are using the same computer.

INFOPRESSE parle de Premiumbeat.com ce matin

EN FRANCAIS -- INFOPRESSE - Le portail du marketing, de la publicité et des communications parle de notre site web dans leur édition du 18 janvier 2005.
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Deux associés québécois lancent www.premiumbeat.com, un service qui permet aux agences de marketing interactif de magasiner rapidement des compositions musicales libres de droit.

Le site conçu par Martin Laliberté de Scalpel Design offre des licences d'utilisation où l'utilisateur ne paie qu'une fois pour un usage illimité. Tous les fichiers musicaux sont disponibles directement sur le site pour un téléchargement instantané. Les musiciens qui contribuent au site proviennent tous à ce jour du Québec.

Premiumbeat.com n'est disponible qu'en anglais, une version française étant prévue au cours de l'année.

"Voilà huit ans que je travaille en multimédia. Je recherche toujours de la bonne musique pour mes projets. J'ai donc eu l'idée de créer un site Web qui répondrait à mes attentes, puis d'en faire profiter tous ceux qui travaillent dans le même domaine", dit François Arbour, cofondateur de Premiumbeat.com avec Gilles Arbour.

Royalty Free Music News from Premiumbeat.com

Happy New Year 2006!
Wishing you Health, Joy and Prosperity
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NEW TOOL
We have added a new tool on the website. When you are previewing a loop or a full track, you can now "Send this track" to a friend, a partner or a client. Our visitors love this! Just imagine, you are listening to Paris Paris and it sounds like a perfect match for your current project. You immediately send it to your partner for validation with a personal message. Convenient, immediate, useful. Try it!

NEW MUSIC
We're delighted to start this year with lots of new music added to our Royalty Free Music Library

Yanis Sousa
When the Saints go Marching In
Joshua fit the Battle of Jerico
High Society
Dark Eyes
Blue Blues
Black Butterfly
Wedding March
Arabesque

Denis Couture - 10 new tracks
All his music here

Styve Bloduc
Vault

Olive Musique
Rider on the Mountain

Djridü
Unreal
The Main Way
Lost in Nowhere
How to Stay Awake

Thank you for visiting and giving us feedback. We do listen and act on your suggestions.
Regards,

Gilles Arbour & François Arbour
www.premiumbeat.com
Royalty Free Music

Nouvelles en français

Premiumbeat.com présente sa nouvelle boutique Internet de musique pour les nouveaux médias.

Premiumbeat.com offre des licences d’utilisation libres de droits (royalty free music) pour toutes productions requérant de la musique. Ce concept de licence où l’utilisateur ne paie qu’une seule fois pour un usage illimité est très populaire chez nos voisins du Sud. Tous les fichiers musicaux sont disponibles directement sur le site pour un téléchargement instantané.

Montréal, Canada (PRWEB) 10 janvier 2006 – Dans toutes les agences de marketing interactif, les directeurs artistiques, développeurs Flash, vidéastes et autres travailleurs du multi-média sont constamment à la recherche de nouvelle musique pour leurs projets. Habitués à Internet haute vitesse, ils veulent trouver leur musique rapidement et la télécharger sur-le-champ. Premiumbeat.com, une entreprise québécoise, répond à ce besoin. Les utilisateurs peuvent facilement choisir leur musique et l’avoir sur le bureau de leur ordinateur en quelques minutes.

«Voilà 8 ans que je travaille dans le domaine du multi-média. Je suis toujours à la recherche de bonne musique pour mes projets», nous dit François Arbour, un des fondateurs de Premiumbeat.com. «J’ai donc eu l’idée de créer un site Web qui répondrait à mes attentes et d’en faire profiter tous ceux qui travaillent dans le même domaine.»

D’après Computer Industry Almanach, «le nombre d’internautes qui utilisent la haute vitesse a atteint 215 millions en 2005 – un gain énorme si on considère qu’il y avait moins de 5 millions d’usagers en 1999 et seulement 67 millions en 2002. Les prédictions pour 2010 sont de 500 millions d’usagers pour l’ensemble de la planète.» Ce marché grandissant a créé une explosion de productions multi-média enrichies de son et d’image. Afin de rester compétitives et de répondre adéquatement à un nombre croissant de clients, les entreprises exigent maintenant des sites Web rehaussés de musique et d’animation.

Reconnaissant que personne ne veut perdre son temps à se promener dans un fouillis de pages Web dont l’ergonomie laisse à désirer, Premiumbeat.com offre une expérience de magasinage en ligne fluide et agréable. «Notre site Web n’a reçu que des commentaires positifs de la part de gens qui travaillent dans le milieu», poursuit François. «Les visiteurs apprécient tant sa dimension humaine que la simplicité à y naviguer. Les gens aiment bien l’ambiance de salon feutré et le design décontracté que Martin Laliberté de Scalpel Design a créé pour nous.»

«À ce jour, tous nos musiciens sont résidents du Québec. En plus d’offrir une ouverture sur le marché local, nous sommes très heureux d’exporter le talent québécois sur la scène internationale. Toujours à l’affût de nouvelle musique, nous continuons d’accueillir avec plaisir les propositions des musiciens professionnels qui aimeraient participer à cette aventure», ajoute Gilles Arbour, co-fondateur de Premiumbeat.com.

Pour le moment, le site de Premiumbeat.com n’est disponible qu’en version anglaise, répondant ainsi à la demande d’un marché à 95% anglophone. Mais la version française est déjà en développement et sera prête au courant de l’année 2006.

Premiumbeat.com est la propriété de François Arbour et de Gilles Arbour. Depuis 8 ans, François Arbour, développeur Flash certifié Macromedia, a participé à de nombreux projets chez plusieurs grandes agences de marketing interactif. Gilles Arbour a fondé plusieurs entreprises et formé des milliers de personnes dans le domaine du marketing au Canada et aux États-Unis au cours des 20 dernières années.

Pour tout renseignement additionnel : www.premiumbeat.com
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Premiumbeat.com Launches Its New Royalty Free Music Library

Premiumbeat.com, a new provider of high quality royalty-free music, announced today that their online service is now in full operation. Premiumbeat.com offers music for new media and traditional productions. All music files are downloadable instantly.

Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) December 14, 2005 -- Web designers, Flash animation agencies, computer games developers, video artists and many others are often looking for good music. They want to find it rapidly and download it to their desktop immediately because they work at the speed of the Internet. Now Premiumbeat.com (http://www.premiumbeat.com) has launched a service that provides what they need.

“I’ve been a Flash developer for 8 years and I’m always on the lookout for music myself,” says Francois Arbour, one of the partner at Premiumbeat.com. “So I decided to not only create a music library that would entirely meet my needs, but to also provide the same service to everyone else doing the same kind of work”.

According to the Computer Industry Almanach, “the worldwide number of Internet broadband subscribers will surpass 215 million in 2005—up from less than 5M in 1999, and 67M in 2002. Worldwide broadband Internet subscribers are forecasted to reach 500M by the end of 2010”. This market has created an explosion of rich media productions. Companies are now demanding music enriched websites, and advertising and e-learning tools to serve a growing clientele. Music is being integrated at every step.

Nobody wants to go through endless pages of music files to find what they want. Premiumbeat.com offers a user-friendly system that makes it an easy proposition. “The feedback from players in the industry has been excellent” says Francois. “People appreciate our advanced search capability. They say they are finding what they need easily and quickly. Visitors also like the relaxed feeling of the website. Our goal was to provide a focused commercial capability in a comfortable, lounge-like environment, and people are telling us that we’ve succeeded”.

Premiumbeat.com, a royalty-free music library, is the property of François Arbour and Gilles Arbour. François Arbour, an award-winning Macromedia certified Flash Developer, has been working in the multi-media industry for the last 8 years. Gilles Arbour has trained thousands of people in sales and marketing during the last 20 years. Both have seen, over and over, that music makes an enormous difference in a presentation, because it moves people to action. For additional information go to: http://www.premiumbeat.com

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The International Web Design Contest

Congratulations to the Cesart Team for winning the International Web Design contest - section Canada. Francois Arbour, Flash developer and co-owner of Premiumbeat.com is a member of the winning team. They received the first prize ahead of all other Canadian teams. They will be moving on to represent Canada in Limoges, France this coming February 2006.


The Web Design International Festival is a marathon type contest. Participants only learn at 8 AM what is the topic of the website they have to create. They are given 24 hours to develop the concept, create it on the spot, finalize it and present it to the judges. No sleep, lots of teamwork, non-stop programming, the project has to be ready at the 24 hour mark!

Congratulations to the whole team: François Maisonneuve, Pascal Gagnon, François Arbour and Philippe Archontakis.

Premiumbeat.com is now online!

Premiumbeat.com is now online!

We are very excited about it. We already have a good selection of excellent music and we will keep adding more regularly. This is just the beginning!

We’ve been online for just a few days, we are already getting lots of visitors and the feedback is great!

Here are some excerpts of e-mails we’ve been receiving:

Went to the site, Wow! It looks and sounds great! R. P. Missouri USA

Congratulations! A great site, clean, nice look, excellent design, ergonomic, simple, a good choice of music, professional, etc. R. L. Quebec Canada

What a beautiful site! Congratulations... I will be sampling tonight! Thanks for letting us know about this. V. B. Oregon USA

A very good resource. A sharp design, with a warm lounge feeling. I like it! P. M. Montreal Canada

A huge thank you to Martin Laliberté for creating the design of the website

Gilles Arbour
Francois Arbour

Royalty Free Music?

www.premiumbeat.com will be online this coming week-end. François and I are very excited about it. Several people have asked us what exactly is Royalty Free Music and what do people use it for?

So here is the answer directly from our FAQ page…

What is royalty-free music?

Music purchased from Premiumbeat.com’s music library is royalty free. This means that after paying a one-time fee for a user license, you can then use the music you’ve purchased as many times as you wish for as long as you like in accordance with the terms stated in the license agreement. You never have to pay any additional royalty fees based on usage.

How am I allowed to use the music I purchase from Premiumbeat.com?

With your purchase from Premiumbeat.com, you get a permanent, non-exclusive license to utilize the music in applications such as Flash animations, website background music, Podcasts, online tutorials, e-learning tools, slide shows, corporate training videos, Power-point presentations, multimedia CD-rom, promotional DVDs, software demos, video blogs, web-based online video games, etc. You are also welcome to use it for television, radio broadcasting and commercial movies provided you obtain an expanded license required for this type of commercial use.

Does the music I buy belong to me?

No. You do not actually buy the music itself. The copyright to the music remains the property of the composer. What you do own is a license allowing you to use the music for your projects and purposes in accordance with the license agreement.
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So, there you go. It’s royalty free but not copyright free. So the license user cannot copy the music and resell it as his own work unless it is embedded as part of a finished end product.

Purchasing a license from us is the least expensive way to include quality professional music in any projects.

If you do have more questions, please feel free to contact us.

A Blog for Premiumbeat.com

This is the first entry for our blog. And we're not even online yet.
Several people have seen the beta version of Premiumbeat.com.
The feedback is excellent: warm, ergonomic, great music, etc. We can't wait to show it to the world!

Just a few bugs to iron out and here we comes (insert drums and trumpet here please - royalty free of course...)

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