Adding customization to stock music has its advantages
Traditionally, stock music has had a very rigid structure. A composer would make four or five different versions at different lengths, and that was about all you had to work with. You would then almost have to design your content around the music. Or not blend them that well together, just accepting the limitations of the medium. But that wouldn’t come off so well.
With Smartsound Cloud though came the era of customizable stock music. You are no longer bound to previous constraints. There are no limits. You can change the length to exactly what you need, change the mix to get different variations, or, simply enough, generate different variants.
This doesn’t mean the composer is taken out of the process. On the other hand it’s even more work for the composer and we’ve got to get someone akin to an orchestrator as well to make sure the algorithm reads the music correctly, and chops it up and glues it seamlessly. It’s quite an intensive process!
The end result though, is that customizable stock music can save you time, money, and provide a more tailored and professional sound that actually fits your content.
BENEFIT #1: TIME SAVINGS
Because of the constraints of regular stock music, the time it took to search was way longer. You had to find something that fit the timing, intros, outros, and all that to meld with your project just right.
With customizable stock music like you can find on Smartsound Cloud, you can easily find something “close enough”. And then with a few tweaks, it’s perfect. No need to endlessly search through thousands of sounds for that piece that’s just right. You can make it just right. One click to set the time, one or two clicks to set the right mix, and bam. Perfection. Like a wood-oven cooked pizza in Naples.
BENEFIT #2: COST SAVINGS
This is of course, the biggest benefit to using stock music in general, but customizable stock music in particular.
For one, you don’t have to hire musicians to round out each of your needs. We all know the podcast This American Life uses their own to write the music for the show, but they’re working with a ginormous budget. Most of us starting out don’t have access to that kind of dough. So the best we have to work with is either plopping a fat wad of cash for licensing a hit, or going with something that sounds like it was written for your show but wasn’t (that is, stock music).
To go further, Smartsound Cloud saves even more money since the whole process is faster, and we all know that time is money. Simply create the proper track and timing and move on.
Sound design suddenly becomes the smallest task on your list.
BENEFIT #3: PROFESSIONAL AND TAILORED SOUND
It’s true that customizable tracks can start like generic stock music. They are all created by often unlisted artists for general purposes. But when you take the track and begin the process of molding it to your project, it begins to shine in ways that are impossible for generic stock music. By modifying elements like the key and instrumentation, you can tailor the track to perfectly match your brand, video, or project. You truly make it your own, a single production that exists nowhere else.
Adapting a track to fit your project’s energy, mood, and theme also takes your project to a whole new level of professionalism. You’ve left the Little League behind, my friend!
BENEFIT #4: WIDE VARIETY OF OPTIONS
I’m not going to lie. In addition to Smartsound Cloud, there are many additional large music libraries to choose from. But with the ability to personalize our stock music tracks, quick search options, and more material every month, Smartsound Cloud provides you with a large number of possibilities in ways that other providers just don’t.
CONCLUSION
The versatility of stock music is combined with the distinctive tone of original compositions in customizable stock music, which offers the best of both worlds. Using a service like Smartsound Cloud, that allows you to shape pre-composed music to fit your projects boosts your level of professionalism, saves you time and money, and gives you a wide variety of unseen options. There’s really no way to go wrong.
Still not sure? Smartsound Cloud offers tons of free tracks to use, without worries about royalties or subscriptions. Just sign up here and get started.
