What sorts of things should a videographer scoring with ACID or Soundtrack look for when scoring?
ACID and Soundtrack are very powerful tools that are incredibly effective and very easy to learn. They put performances of great musical minds at the fingertips of the masses. They give the non-musician (as well as the musician) the tools necessary to create unique and original musical compositions utilizing the sound of some of the world’s top performers. Where else would you be able to hear Mick Fleetwood and Rudy Sarzo performing together on a piece that you created in just minutes? The danger is that the resources are so vast and the libraries so complete that one could go into experimental mode and forget that a project needs to be delivered. (Finish the project, then play … ) Virtually any type of musical enhancement that one can imagine is covered by one or more of the available libraries. My advice to a videographer scoring with ACID or Soundtrack would be to experience as many other similar works as possible. Listen to how a great composer would treat the same kind of situat
