One of the problems with production library music is that often, if you find music you like, there’s not enough of it to meaningfully score your whole production.
That’s why, in our UniqueTracks royalty free music collections, we provide a full-length theme (from 5-8 minutes in length) as well as several remixes or variations.
This gives you options. If you need a long track, say, for opening credits you can use all or a portion of the full-length theme, if you need just a few seconds for underscoring an important moment in the production, then you can choose one of the remixes.
The strength of this approach is that all the music, the full-length theme, the variations, the transitions, all the music is thematically related, it sounds like it should go together. Your production will have its own musical “voice” and the sound and feel of a custom score. You can create musical links between scenes and give the production musical cohesiveness just as if you’d hired a freelance composer to produce the score for you.
Setting the music is up to you, what we have tried to do is produce enough variations of the material so you have freedom to choose many ways of scoring your production. The use of digital editing software like Bias Peak (we use this at UniqueTracks), Audacity, Goldwave, Amadeus, etc. greatly enhances your ability to “shape” the music. Editing music, just like editing picture, often yields new, fresh and unconsidered ways of proceeding.
We find that a thorough knowledge of the music on the discs helps your recall and speeds up your work. When you come to a moment in the production that needs music, you know what track you want because you are very familiar with the music on the CD’s.
