So as the title says, I’ve got a writing template I’ve been using for the last 5 years, it’s non-genre specific because it’s a writing template, designed to have everything you need to get started. Imagine being a painter and coming up to a canvas with all the paints you want already put out, just saves time and makes life easy.
I’ve recreated the template with all Ableton stock plugins so any Ableton user can use it, it’s chock-full of all my 128s, so around 1,600+ samples including as well as my main go to FX racks to get things moving quickly and easily.
I’ve put a video together show casing it, you can check it out from the link below.
tjlawton com/template-demo
Cheers!
TJ Lawton
Sorry man, Logic user here. I did check out the video, though. To be honest,I have a different workflow and different demand of what I need from my template, so it wouldn’t really have suited me anyway.
Perhaps others will be interested though. 
stumbled across this post after years because I wanted to find other template sellers here. How are things working out for you? also, what platform do you use to sell? I’m currently considering payhip because they have automated delivery and also automated tax handling, but i’d love some real insights from other sellers
So are people really buying templates out there??
I always thought that our needs, our workflows, our writing styles, and our third party plugins too vastly different for it to be much of use.
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Yeah, they are. I’ve landed on a couple of systems - mostly broadcast - that are clearly based on a template. (When your raw, unprocessed kick sounds better than the sample you’re triggering, I have to assume you paid for it rather than listened to it.)
There’s also the whole StudioVerse preset sharing thing, which I’ll admit I’ve used as a starting point a couple of times, but it’s basically the same idea. And since I suspect many many people are learning this stuff without an actual mentor these days, it’s probably the best way to get given a strong opinion about how to set things up, which helps you learn how to set your own up.
Makes me wonder if I could sell my own template to people, except it’d probably have to come with a 10 hour video series on how to use it 
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I’ve use Payhip for quite a while for selling a bunch of stuff not just daw templates. I also used to use gumbroad and had since closed it and switched over to payhip because they raised their fees + have replaced their support with AI agents + have implemented minimum payout threshold + amongst many other bad things. I’m happy so far with payhip - happy to answer any questions you might have.
They do have automated tax handling for the USA, Canada, UK, and all the countries in the EU region. I also like that their fees are the lowest I’ve found online. I’ve found other producers from their marketplace too.
One tip if this is your first time selling is that you need to know the difference between an eCommerce platform like Payhip (whose main job is basically to host your website/online store, but also happens to have an online marketplace) versus a true online marketplace like etsy (which…surprisingly I have found people selling template there xD).
Why you need an online store: Because you need somewhere to drive your direct traffic to. e.g. if you promote your stuff on social media , you’d want people to go to your online store and buy your stuff there.
Why you need a marketplace: Because you might enjoy free traffic. But in reality, it’s tough. Marketplace is super competitive. Realistically you need to drive your own traffic. Don’t send traffic from social media to your marketplace store because your audience might hop off and buy other people’s stuff instead. Hope that makes sense.
Ideally, you need BOTH. Not just one or the other.
Channel strips/Studioverse presets I can see being useful because you can mix and match and build your own custom templates from that. It’s project templates I don’t understand. Quite possibly because none of them really come close to how I like to work.
Admittedly, I’m a little bit out of the box and like to mix things up each project instead of just doing the same thing the same way. Probably why my template is largely groups and routing configurations. Everything else is custom build depending on the project needs, even if that is a quick recall Logic channel strip setting I’ve created for myself. I’ll even switch reverbs and delays up making choices based on what “character” I’m needing at the time.
It’s nothing third party template can really encapsulate. But then again that might just be me.
