SmartSound Software, has released a new album from “Josh Eagle and the Harvest City” in their Voxation Series. The Voxation Series features lyric-based vocal music from bands and artists in a SmartSound format that automatically edits length, arrangement and mix in the hands of any video or audio editor.

Each song on these albums is licensed for royalty-free commercial use and delivered with the instrument tracks and vocals on separate layers. Video editors can easily manipulate these songs to make the instruments and vocals automatically fit the changes in their video.

Albums in the Voxation Series are priced at $150 each and all SmartSound Music is available for purchase online as both albums or singles.

20,000 New Tracks Added As Its Library Surpasses Two Hundred Thousand Tracks

AudioMicro.com, a crowd-sourced marketplace for royalty free music and sound effects licensing, announces that its users can now download more than 20,000 new production music tracks from its online library.  AudioMicro users have immediate access to 20,000 fresh tracks spanning a comprehensive range of musical genres and styles.  The new offering has been dubbed, “The Platinum Collection”, and features a selection of hand picked, award winning production music.    Read the rest of this entry »

iStockphoto.com sent us a nice little note today that their new Royalty Free Music section iStockaudio was now open for business. They’re not announcing it to the wide world until March, but figured Videomaker readers might want to get a heads up, and get a chance to upload some of your original scores to the site before everyone comes knocking. It’s also a good place to look for new royalty free music for your video projects.

The new site works similarly to their stock footage and stock photo sites.  You pre-buy credits from iStockphoto and can spend them on downloading royalty free tracks directly. The cost of the tracks is tied to “complexity” which may be a bit more subjective than how they charge for photos and audio (based on physical size). The tracks themselves are in .wav format, 16bit, 44.1kHz or 48kHz, the latter matching the audio sample rate for video.

So if you have some audio tracks or sound effects you wish to sell, or if you’re in need of a piece of audio you just can’t make yourself, head on over and check out iStockaudio.