Music in Soundtrack Pro

Sam McGuire

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Have you ever wondered what the GBs of audio files you installed with Final Cut Pro can do for you? Soundtrack Pro is an excellent music arrangement tool that can be used for temping tracks and also creating full scores for your project. It may not be the same as hiring a composer, but for the price and flexibility, and this video tutorial, you may find just what you are looking for!

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Re: Music in Soundtrack Pro
by Sam McGuire

Not free but:

http://www.vtc.com/products/QuickStart!-Apple-Soundtrack-Pro-3.htm

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Soundtrack pro 5.1 surround sound outputting
by Stephen Salvati

Hi Sam,

I totally enjoyed watching your tutorials here. Very beneficial and highly useful. Many thanks!

I wonder if you have or recommend any tutorials regarding Soundtrack pro 5.1 surround sound outputting?

Cheers,

Stephen

Stephen Salvati

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Re: Music in Soundtrack Pro
by Lawrence Eaton

Sam, I've just finished watching this Music in SoundtrackPro and all I can say is, "WOW!" the potential..... Thank you

Lawrence

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Re: Music in Soundtrack Pro
by Michael Locke

Sam, great walk through; lots of stuff to play with from this. Sound, being at least half the presentation, makes or breaks the video. Matching the emotion of the video, with the audio, to touch the audience and tell your story. That's the goal...ML

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Re: Music in Soundtrack Pro
by John Carr

Sam, thanks for making the tutorial.

However, I ran into a problem. I don't see all that you saw in the video. I have Soundtrack Pro 3.0.1 Academic. When you clicked on Search, Music Beds, Orchestra, you had 2092 items. When I did the same thing, I only had 171 items.

Does the academic version not have all of the files that the standard version has. Or am I missing something?

I do like my music my way and it would be extremely helpful to have the music beds divided up into the various instruments. The I could either not use certain instruments or lower the volume on certain instruments.

Thanks for any help you can provide,
John Carr in Dallas, Texas

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@John Carr
by Sam McGuire

I have the Apple Orchestral Jam Pack installed which has more. I'm not sure if the academic version comes with less content but if you are doing any kind of work with music I recommend buying the Jam Pack. It's only $99 or you could buy Logic which has it included.

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Re: Music in Soundtrack Pro
by Alex Damon

This is great, thank you! I would love to learn more about music production. Right now I'm pretty much limited to using AudioJungle.

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