Royalty free music

[Gary Kleiner]

If you have any mucical inclination at all, definitley check out making your own music using Sony’s Acid oftware.

Gary

[Ron Lindeboom]

Gary’s suggestion regarding Sony Acid is quite right if you have any real musical apptitude.

If you do not, then tools like Smartsound’s Sonicfire Pro and Digital Juice Stacktraxx are worth their weight in gold.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Doug Lewis]

No musical skills at all. The only instrument I can play is the soundboard at our church. 🙂 So Sonicfire Pro is good?

[Ted Snow]

One thing you have to be careful about as far as “Royalty Free” music is the fact that some companies sells you royalty free music to “PLAY” at the ceremony or whatever the occassion is…but they do not grant you “mechanical” rights which means that you can not copy the music to your video…you can only play their CD. “Royalty Free” can be quite misleading in regards to what you can use it for. I would check with the company before I forked out the money for a library and see if they allow you to copy the music to your videos.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Sonicfire Pro is quite easy to use. If you are in Europe, their licensing does not meet all the criteria in the European market to qualify as 100% royalty free. In the USA and other countries like Canada, Australia, etc., it does qualify as 100% royalty free.

Sonicfire Pro has a large library and since you said that you are doing wedding production, etc., they do have some volumes targeted at that market and so it should meet your needs.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Wayne Starick]

I have been using SonicFire Pro for a couple of years now and can thoroughly recommend it (my musicality extends to the giddy heights of knowing how to press Play in the CD player).

There is a review of it here:
https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=24&page=/articles/script_gen/articletypesort/productreview_smartsoundssonicfirepro_script.html

Wayne Starick
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[Allen Zagel]

I also have Sonic Fire Pro and it’s my ‘main’ program. They just came out with 2 or 3 CD’s on wedding stuff. Have Acid Pro too.

Personally I also use Studio Cutz and these below. Dawn and Opuzz have some of the best deals I’ve seen. Read their sites carefully and you’ll find out how to save quite a bit over their published prices.
https://www.dawnmusic.com

https://www.opuzz.com/

Here’s some more that may be good for you but I don’t use them due to their lack of the style of music I need (ie:Chinese).

https://www.flyinghands.com/

https://www.sopersound.com/html/body_search.cfm

https://www.digitaleditor.com/music/flagship.html

Good Luck
Allen

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