OT - Is there a place to download free instrumental music out there?

Hi all.

Since I'm too busy lately to create any original instrumental music, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a place where you can legally access mp3's of instrumental (easy-listening type) music that can be used in a video production.

I would 'sell' the video montage with this 'downloaded music' to the 'wedding couple' and/or their family members who'd be interested. So the music has gotta be 'free' free....if you get my meaning.

I appreciate your thoughts and direction on this matter,

Thanks!

Martin

You gotta love it. Give me something free so I can resell it. Composers will be lining up around the block.

Thank you Scott, as always.

Found some sources of 'elevator' music....royalty free. Some pretty sad musicians out there who have no need to sell their stuff, I guess?

Martin

Hi Martin,

No problem. I think you'll find that Cinescore fits your needs for those types of projects.

You could also try Band-In-A-Box, but it's not exactly the same thing...

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Scott

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True, but the OP said he wanted something free. Cinescore is $179.

Hi Scott! (and everybody!)

I'm just browsing around looking at different DAW assisted audio scoring softwares like CINESCORE, ADOBE SOUNDBOOTH, SONIC FIRE and they seems like a very versatile and dynamic music library solutions that can be both used as final soundtrack tools as well as "idea generators" for semi-pro composers as myself...

I'm very much interested by these products' features that use MARKERS as "hints" for the soft to calculate tempos changes between sections AND by their "intensity" track (some kind of a "velocity filter" that applies to the whole composition...).

My question: I'm wondering if any of these products have some kind of "export markers" and "export conductor layer" as MIDI data to be used in another soft like SONAR? That would be another way to customize at a deeper level a soundtrack by adding our own custom audio elements within SONAR for instance... well, the export velocity track is secondary I guess, but to have a way to import the TEMPO map of a cinescore project could be nice.

I'll have to look at the demo I guess. Meanwhile, anybody have some info about that?

Cheers.

This is so fun it's sick. Not really my thing but I forwarded this link to my 12 YO daughter last night and I was amazed at what she came up with ....... she played with it for over an hour on her laptop and I dug everything she came up with.

Use this for ideas and get off yer azz and program some midi bro

http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm

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Hi all.

Since I'm too busy lately to create any original instrumental music, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a place where you can legally access mp3's of instrumental (easy-listening type) music that can be used in a video production.

I would 'sell' the video montage with this 'downloaded music' to the 'wedding couple' and/or their family members who'd be interested. So the music has gotta be 'free' free....if you get my meaning.

I appreciate your thoughts and direction on this matter,

Thanks!

Martin