Publishing
Be part of the creative workflow.
One room for the people who record sounds and the people who cut them.
Ledger is the librarian editors and sound designers work in all day. It knows every sound, and when the sounds they need are not on their drive, Ledger puts yours on display.
Why Ledger
Ledger is a modern librarian for sound. It understands language and knows what every recording sounds like without reading its label, so an editor holding up a search term or a sound finds what resembles it, or what complements it. The experience is focused on creativity. And when the sound they need is not there, Ledger introduces candidates that bring your sounds directly in front of those looking for them: heard in the same list, bought in the same window, spotted into the session without leaving the flow. Sounds are found for how they sound, next to the sounds an editor already trusts. Nothing rests on how carefully a file was named years ago, and nothing ranks the sounds but the search itself.
Found by how it sounds
Ledger's search engine hears your recordings. It describes every file from its audio, section by section and in two independent ways, and matches sounds by comparing those descriptions rather than their names.
Editors search in three ways. They type what they need. They hold up a sound and ask for more like it. Or they ask what goes with it: the layers, textures and room around a sound, suggested from every library. Your recordings are found for what they are, whenever they match the circumstance, and better placement cannot be bought.
How editors audition your sounds
Editors audition picked excerpts, never full files. When a search reaches one of your sounds, the engine plays the segment that matched best, faded in and out, so the editor knows exactly what they are getting. A different search can pick a different segment of the same file.
Every file is excerpted this way, and an excerpt is for listening only: it cannot be spotted, dragged into a session or saved. Using a sound means buying it.
Full listens are your choice, per library: whether an editor may hear a whole file before buying, once or twice. Off unless you switch them on.
Your price, your share
You set the price of the library, before VAT. Ledger adds VAT for each buyer's country at checkout.
You receive 70% of every sale's price before VAT, fixed on the sale when it is made. Card fees come out of Ledger's share. Payouts are made through Stripe.
Before VAT, which Ledger adds for each buyerHow VAT works
Updates, delivered to every owner
Send the new version the same way. Ledger compares it with what is live and shows you exactly what was added, replaced and removed. Every owner is notified and their copy updates inside Ledger. A replaced sound arrives alongside the previous one rather than over it, so work in progress never changes.
Launch support for new releases
Tell us a library is a new release and give it a date, and Ledger helps you launch it.
Older libraries can go live quietly, as soon as they are ready.
Where your library shows
An example with our designer's artwork. When you add a library, See how you will look shows yours.
The few sentences you write about the library.
Yours to keep, with every update to it.
A few words about you, from Your details.
The other libraries and sounds here are invented examples.
- Under the editor's own results. Ledger is where editors search their own drives. When the sounds they need are not there, libraries they do not own come up under their own results, in a strip of their own, never mixed in. Opening it shows the sounds.
- Your library, beside the sounds that matched. Every library with a match shows its cover beside the sounds that matched. See all opens your library page.
- Your sounds that matched. Found by how they sound, each shown with the name and description your files carry.
- A picked excerpt, never the full file. The lit stretch is what the editor auditions: the segment that matched the search best, faded in and out by the engine, so they know exactly what they are getting.
- Your cover. On the shelves, in the strip, in search results and beside every sound of yours. On our designer's cover Ledger sets the name and your publisher name; a cover you upload is shown as it is. The number of files shows once we have read them.
- Your banner. The top of the library page. Ledger sets the name, your publisher name and the file count over it. A slice of it shows, so keep what matters away from the edges.
- What it is. The few sentences you write above, as you write them.
- Your price. Beside the buy button. A buyer who took single sounds first has what they paid counted toward it.
- About the publisher. From Your details; the same on every library you publish.
Your terms
- No exclusivity. Sell your libraries anywhere else, on any terms.
- Sales when you choose. Put a library on sale for a period you set, and it shows on its page and in the shop.
- The newsletter. Take a promotion slot in Ledger's newsletter. For as long as it runs, your Ledger price is no higher than anywhere else.
- See what works. How often your sounds were auditioned, whether they were found by a typed search or by Find Similar, and what sold.
- Paid every two weeks. Through Stripe, once your balance is £25 or more; each sale becomes payable 30 days after it is made.
- Leave at any time. Withdraw a library from your page whenever you choose. Buyers keep what they bought.
- One licence for buyers. Every buyer gets Ledger's licence, the same for every library, so nobody has to read yours.
- Editors' searches stay private. You are never shown what an editor typed, in words or in totals.