Commercial Sound Providers

Crank City "premium royalty-free production music"

Creation Engine "Academic discounts on software for schools, faculty and students."

CSS Music  Royalty free music and sound effects. "...pay per cut cd quality music."

Gene Michael Production (gmp) A music library that "...features everything from full length themes to background music, suitable for film, broadcast television, advertising, radio, and corporate video productions."

Music Bakery According to their hype: "Here's where Quality Music doesn't have to be expensive. And, it's Royalty-Free Buyout production music!"

MusiCopia "84 tracks of royalty-free music...for Multimedia and Internet Professionals"

Narrator Tracks Music Has a free music but I didnt look into it."Our music library was created for professional audio and video producers who need music that works with narration. Narrator Tracks music offers longer themes, steady tempos, and moderated dynamics making our music designed to work WITH the voice copy in your presentation - not AGAINST it. And we use real instruments making you sound like you spent a whole lot on custom compositions."

Smartsound products from Sonic Desktop Software-Production software with some "free" music.
"SmartSound Sonicfire Pro for Macintosh is currently available in two versions: Sonicfire Pro, which includes the software and two CDs of high-quality, royalty-free music for $349 (list/street), and Sonicfire Pro Bundle Edition, which sells for $499 (list/street) and includes the program plus four CDs of content. The Windows version of Sonicfire Pro, available for pre-orders at NAB, is due to be shipped in May" (2001)

Sonic Foundry Music Production tools with sound libraries: Look under the "create" section for sound libraries and loop production tools.

SoundQuest License and royalty free music "Welcome to the musical world of SOUNDQUEST™ free license music CD. This compact disc was created to give the user high quality music at one low price with no further obligations such as royalty fees."

Wink Music is another Eyewire site. It "provides a library full of royalty-free stock music that'll charm your pants off. The World Sounds series features authentic treats for the ears from every corner of the globe. It's music from the planet, but for the soul."

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January 27, 2004 11:41 AM