Customize stock music to match the mood and timing of your video or audio project.

Musicbed DV is the revolutionary tool that generates professional music soundtracks to match the mood and timing needs of your video or audio projects.

Choose fully composed and orchestrated music themes from an extensive and included customizable stock music resource.

Sculpt stock music with unique musical style and texture controls. Adjust music intensity, complexity, dynamics, and much more, all in real-time.

Punctuate and underscore your project with innovative and easy-to-use musical style and texture automation curves.

Create custom music soundtracks with easy-to-use software that delivers professional results.

All customizable stock music available as stereo mixes, instrument submixes, and surround music at any custom duration.

Royalty-free license, use as many times as you like without additional fees.

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Overview

Music Style And Texture

Musicbed DV gives you control over music’s stylistic and textural characteristics, allowing you to customize the music’s feel to match the mood of your video or audio project.

Instead of simply adjusting the mix of several audio tracks, each Musicbed DV parameter influences all of the music’s elements. So the style and texture of strings, melodies, percussion, and so on, are adjusted to match your specific needs.

You may also independently change the pitch and tempo of the music.

Musicbed DV’s style and texture parameters give you music director-like control over professionally composed music.

Style And Texture Automation

Keyframes may be used in the timeline to change music style and texture characteristics over time.

By automating music parameters, you have the ability to make subtle or dramatic musical changes for a composed-to-picture feel.

There is no need to automate what would normally be complex music mixes within a digital audio workstation.

Surround Music

Your custom music soundtrack may be exported in a variety of audio formats, including 5.1 surround.

Music packages contain hundreds of non-linear audio tracks for individual instruments, ambience, and effects. This gives you true 5.1 surround mixes compared to other approaches that up-mix stereo submixes.

Choose a usage scenario for your surround mix (Immersive, Film/DVD, etc.) and hundreds of tracks are mixed appropriately to 6 audio tracks (L, R, Ls, Rs, C, LFE) for easy import into your DVD or other authoring tools.

Music Synchronization

Synchronizing music clip start and end times to locations in your video or audio project is easy.

You can add or import markers to identify important locations in the timeline. Markers display a frame of video for the specified location, making it easy to identify where you are working.

Simply drag and snap to move music clips or independently change start and end times.

Instead of using repetitive loops to create music that fits, Musicbed DV uses knowledge under-the-hood to create a music soundtrack that evolves over time in a musical fashion.

Browsing Music

The Musicbed DV browser uses an intuitive approach that lets you focus on your project’s music needs instead of getting side-tracked by music creation from scratch.

Music genres and moods include storytelling genres and structure so you do not have to hunt for the right musical scale and key. Music style and texture are based on intuitive expressions.

By targeting your browsing with intuitive musical expressions, the perfect music for your "point of no return" action sequence is within easy reach. Want the music more in the background and less percussive? Done and done, in only a few clicks, and in real-time.

Real Time

Musicbed DV works in real-time.

Changes are reflected in the music as you listen, in sync with your imported video or audio.

Coupled with Musicbed DV's intuitive approach, you will have a custom music soundtrack for your project in a time frame that will surprise you.

Import, Export, and Integration

Musicbed DV has a number of import and export features that makes it easy to integrate custom music into your normal workflow.

• Import video or audio of any type supported by the Quicktime file format.

• Import chapter and scoring markers for easy synchronization to important locations in your video or audio.

• Export stereo mixes in industry standard formats.

• Export instrumental submixes (bass, percussion, pads, effects, etc.) for additional editing.

• Export surround mixes as 5.1 audio tracks.

• Export tempo maps for additional customization locked to tempo using software like Soundtrack and Logic.

Key Features

Music Browsing

• Browse by story genres (Action, Drama, Sports, etc.).
• Browse by story moods (Progress, Major Setback, Climax, etc.).
• Browse by music genres (Cinematic, Electronic, Pop, Rock, etc.).
• Browse by music moods (Aggressive, Positive, Melancholy, etc.).
• Browse by music styles (Background, Percussive, Dense, etc.).
• Browse by music texture (Intense, Spacious, Punchy, etc.).
• Browse by music tempo and pitch.
• Browse by factory and user presets (Ambience, Background, Full Mix, etc.).
• Real-time music previews while playing video or audio project.

Music Editing

• Adjust music style (Synthetic, Organic, Percussiveness, etc.).
• Adjust music texture (Intensity, Spaciousness, Smoothness, etc.).
• Adjust music with factory and user presets (Ambience, Background, Full Mix, etc.).
• Adjust pitch and tempo independently.
• Adjust duration without changing pitch and tempo.

Music Timeline

• Automatic generation of music clips for specified start, stop, and duration.
• Non-repetitive music generation without loops.
• Non-linear editing of music clip start, stop, and duration.
• Music clip theme/section editing and arrangement.
• Seamless and gap-less music theme/section transition editing.
• Overlay or overwrite multiple music clips in the timeline.
• Music clip package switching while retaining existing timing, transitions, and keyframes.

Music Keyframes

• Sculpt music style and texture over time with keyframe automation.
• Keyframe add, delete, and edit operations with easy-to-use dragging, button, and keyboard commands.
• Keyframe automation curve overlay display.
• Keyframe snapshots generate style and texture values over a time range. Useful for quickly controlling builds and punctuation.
• Intelligent keyframe generation feature creates style and texture variations at markers or time intervals. Useful for quickly generating evolving styles and textures.
  

Video

• Any file type supported by QuickTime.
  
• Project creation via QuickTime file drag and drop.
  
• Visual markers display video frame at marker location.
  
• Video timeline scrubbing.
  
• Video scrubbing during music clip add.
  
• 30 fps, 29.97 fps drop and non-drop, 25 fps.

Markers

• Visual markers display video frame at marker location.
• Synchronization of music clip start, end, and duration using markers.
• Precise positioning of keyframe time using markers.
• Import chapter and scoring markers from Quicktime, including those from Final Cut.

Export

• Export mixes as stereo audio files.
• Export instrument submixes as stereo audio files (Bass, Percussion, Instruments, etc.).
• Export 5.1 surround music as 6 mono audio files (L, R, Ls, Rs, C, LFE).
• Surround mixes for multiple usage scenarios (Immersive, Theatrical, etc.).
• Export tempo maps.
• AIFF and WAV file types.
• 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 96 kHz sample rates.
• 16 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit depths.

Miscellaneous

• Professional audio limiter eliminates digital overs.
• Factory presets for useful stock music styles.
• User music style preset creation.
• Custom location for music content on disk.
• Automatic and manual music detail preferences for optimal system performance.
• Automated cue sheet generation.
• Unlimited undo.
• Royalty-free license, use as many times as you like without incurring additional fees or costs.