Whats everybody’s music source?

[Steve Brame]

We’ve been using SmartSound’s SonicFire Pro program and their library for years. You pick the song, pick which version of the song fits best, then tell the program how long it needs to be and the program rewrites the song to fit.

Of course if you don’t need that functionality, you can hardly beat the prices at AudioJungle.net.

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[Mike Smith]

I’ve found some useful tracks at https://www.akmmusic.co.uk/

[Mark Suszko]

SmartSound Sonic Fire pro fan here, too.

WHat Smart Sound has, that you can;t get with needle-drop sources, is that not ONLY can you instantly revise the playing time, you also can get versions specifically composed to fit well underneath a voce-over, and you can have small group versions, percussion variations, all of which let you give a sense of overall unity to the production. Your big title sequence, your lower-thirds, your end credits, some kind of interstitial between chapters… it all sounds like it was made to fi together, but each part stands alone.

Nowadays, you don’t have to own the entire program, either, you can audition the tracks and collections online and buy a-la-carte, so it doesn’t lock you in to buying, say, four loop collections, and then nothing new for a year, because that was all your procurement budget could handle. DGMQ, we got a LOT of good use out of only 4 loop collections here, but if they give you a credit limit at the place, you could do the online a la carte thing and never worry about buying something you end up not getting much use out of.

[Andrew Warren]

Wow, kind of surprised that after 7 years of doing this line of work, I’ve never heard of that program!

That could definitely save a lot of time if you can set a length and it automatically trims it down. I’ll be looking into this resource. Thanks for the suggestion guys!

Any other solid resources?

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[Joseph W. bourke]

I’ve had very good luck with Pond5.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Nick Griffin]

Alright. I’m ready to buy into SmartSound Sonic Fire pro. I’ve used their tracks several times but never taken the time to get or learn the software side.

Other sources of just straight tracks, aside the aformentioned, include
MyMusicSource.com, PremiumBeat.com, beatsuite.com and royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com.

[Steve Brame]

Honestly, I’ve only used their ‘Express Track’ portion of the software to choose music. However, I’ve seen demos at NAB and there is SO much more to the software than ‘Express Track’, and I’ve been vowing to better learn the other functions.

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Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Mark Suszko]

The modularity in Sonic Fire is impressive. If you have any musical ability at all, the lego-block-like structure of the loops makes it easy to custom-compose. Sony ACID is also very good at this, with a voluminous back-catalog of loops. But I don’t think it’s as easy to use as Sonic fire. If Acid was a musical After-Effects, then maybe Sonic Fire is a musical Apple Motion. But that’s a kind of tortured analogy.

[Andrew Warren]

Just found this yesterday, has anyone had much experience with audioblocks.com ?

I can’t seem to find a number on how many songs are in their collection, but I’m looking at a $99 annual fee for unlimited downloads and thinking, is this too good to be true?

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[Bill Davis]

I don’t find it sensible to rely on any single library these days.

I regularly search through half a dozen on-line depending on budget and the style I want.

I have two major royalty free libraries in my studio that I’ve had for years, but I find I seldom use them anymore because I’ve mined them for so long that every cut I like now reminds me of an old program I used it with.

In the modern era, I can audition 1000 new cuts anytime I like, download audio watermarked versions for client comps – and then only pay for the approved cuts i’m going to use.

So I can’t see any reason to hold onto my old libraries any longer.

Times change.

FWIW.

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