Auto Music

[edserrano]

Smart Sounds were replaced in VS X9, I'm assuming royalties issues. Are we able to buy other Auto Music files for VS X9 or are we stuck with what came with the program?
Thanks,
Eddie Serrano

[RobertOZ]

Unfortunately the answer is NO, however if you have Sonicfire Pro you can still use SmartSound, just takes a bit of extra effort

[Ken Berry]

I think it was a little more than just simply royalties. In fact Corel bought the auto music that now comes with X8 and X9 -- I think it was when they also took over Pinnacle or around the same time. The problem is, as I understand it, that there are only a very limited number of albums that go with it (three?) and new ones have not appeared for years. A number of users also complain that the sound of the new auto music is more like Midi audio rather than made with real instruments.

I am one of the lucky ones mentioned by RobertOZ and had purchased SonicFire Pro 5.1 several years ago. I also have a library of over 120 SmartSound discs, so am happy to continue using that with my Video Studio projects.

[May17]

Hi Everybody,
so here I found the aswer to my question that I also asked to Corel about this very limited tracks on auto music. So there is no way to update or dowload to enlarge the library. In the VS X7 where were huge number of tracks.

So Ken, let me ask you something.
You talk about sonicFire. I don't know this software but I get that is a software to create audio track.
Ok so how does it works? It works inside VS or you just open it create the file and then import it in VS?
Thanks

[RobertOZ]

VSX7 was the last version to have SmartSound auto music, VSX8/9 have Corels own auto music which is not very good quality
Sonicfire Pro is SmartSounds own Soundtrack scoring software and unfortunately cannot be used within VSX9, it must be used standalone, but that in its self is not a problem, just takes a bit of extra effort, to create your soundtrack, save and import

[Ken Berry]

What I do is measure, in VideoStudio, the exact length of the video I want music to cover. Then I then open Sonic Fire Pro and go to my (fairly large --- 130+ discs) of SmartSound music and choose the type of music I am after for that part of the video. I then open that disc in Sonic Fire and find a track which is appropriate. I enter that into Sonic Fire and set the exact same time I am after. Then I export that sound file to my VS project folder, in an audio sub-folder with an appropriately numbered name. I usually then place it in the VS timeline in the music track under the video it is supposed to be backing. It works beautifully... and is not much different -- though outside VS -- from what SmartSound Quicktracks used to do before it was dropped by Corel.

But as I have said many times, the SmartSound discs are not cheap -- I just happened to be lucky enough to acquire a large library of them from a local TV station which was changing over to a different system and was happy to sell them cheap.