Sound Garden

Ok, I'm going to start doing micro-posts so I can update more often instead of taking weeks at a time. This brief post is to add a little bit more info to the list of music libraries link that I posted a few weeks ago.
Music is often a pain for a lot of producers that don't have access to a production library or want to augment their existing library. I'm excited that the custom scoring Sonic Fire Pro 5 software now operates as a plug-in in Final Cut Pro. A lot of Reality TV is scored using this application. Their site is very informative and there are a series of extensive tutorials there explaining how to use it. Oliver Peters from the Digitalfilms blog has a great review on it.

Albatat Muse on the other hand, takes it to the next level by using "artificial intelligence to measure select elements of a moving picture and then composes music to match those elements". Um...thank God they also have tutorials.

But for producers and editors that want the traditional manual controls and need a quick a la carte solution Audio Jungle might work. It may turn into the MySpace of music loops if enough audio producers sign up. This is great for augmenting the existing loop libraries in Garageband, and Soundtrack Pro or for fleshing out sound design in Logic or Pro Tools.