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Express Track Edition is included free with the purchase of any SmartSound music library and offers the basic feature set for searching themes, customizing their length, and inserting them into your project.
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With this release, SmartSound is serving up their software in two flavors.
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The Express Track (previously dubbed Maestro) functionality offers users powerful search tools, the chance to preview themes and insert them into your SFP5 timeline, plus the ability to preview themes played simultaneously with any audio already present in your video file. The intuitive editing tools allow you to easily customize the music in a myriad of ways (more on this below). But first, for those of us way too lazy to look up the other review, an overview: SFP5 is basically a host software application that pulls together all of the musical themes from any SmartSound libraries you have installed, plus themes you don't yet own (users can preview and purchase them from within SFP5 via an internet connection), and puts them into a familiar multitrack-style GUI (Graphic User Interface) with a video track. Here I'm going to focus on the newer features found in SmartSound's latest version of their host application used for customizing their tracks, Sonicfire Pro 5. If you want to learn more about the base features found in SFP4, please see the aforementioned review. Upgrading from version 4.x is free and is a no-brainer. SFP5's project window is where everything comes together, with music tracks, key frame programming for changing the mood of a theme, information about specific audio clips that are used within a theme, and video preview. Don't get me wrong, I still added my own flavor by editing the heck out of it, adding my own tracks, etc. maybe I should try that.Īs of the time of this writing, I've used Sonicfire Pro for a handful of lower budget projects that needed music fast, and in one case even used it as the basis for a jingle composition project. You know, I've heard words taste better with salt. Enter Sonicfire Pro 4 (you can check out our review here) - a collection of music libraries that is highly customizable, musical, searchable, and just plain easy to use. I had been pretty much adamantly opposed to ever using a music library myself for a long time. Somehow a guitar played on a synthesizer just doesn't cut it, in my opinion.
Also, quite frankly, most of them don't sound very good. I tend to dislike most music libraries because, in my opinion, they severely reduce the level of creativity involved in producing the sonic landscape of a production. My natural bent is toward creating music from scratch. At $199/disc, I have to just be patient and wait.Okay, before I begin, let's get one thing straight: I'm a composer. Now, if they'd just put some of the BackStage music on sale. The QuickTracks plug-in is free for pre PE7 users and is included in PE7.
My hope is that SonicFire Pro 6 WILL be a plug-in for Premiere (Elements and Pro).
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It is a free-standing program, but is very powerful, when coupled with any of the Strata Series SmartSound music DVDs. Note: SonicFire Pro, unlike the similar QuickTracks for Premiere, is NOT a plug-in. Someone else will have to fill in that info. Since I have the Scoring Edition, I probably will not be offered this deal, so will not know how "sweet" SmarSound makes it. I do not know what incentive will be offered to the registered users of the Express Track Edition, when going to the Scoring Edition, but would guess that it will be an easy upgrade. They had only offered this when you purchased one of the $99.00 discs. While I use, and strongly recommend the Scoring Edition, this "free" version is quite nice and that it is being included with the "sale" discs is a surprise to me. If you have not experienced SonicFire Pro, play the tutorial on it, to get some idea of its power and usefulness in generating music for your video productions.
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Now, this is the Express Track edition of SonicFire Pro 5, not the full scoring edition, but it's still a great deal. What caught my eye was something at the bottom of the page: "SonicFire Pro 5" free with the purchase of one of these music DVDs for $49.99 (normally $99.00). It featured one of their music DVD's for "half-price," and listed another at that reduced price. Just got my weekly "deal" e-mail from SmartSound.
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