On the first two episodes of Timmy’s Lessons in Nature we produced all the music and sound effects in-house. We used a program called SmartSound to build the music. SmartSound also has a professional version that allows you many more options when building a music score, including importing the video. Its software builds music according to the length of time you specify, the style of music you want, and a number of other options. The quality of the music is wonderful, and it’s very easy to use.

SmartSound. A quick, high-quality, semi-custom music software.

Another music production software is Acid [Sonic Foundry]. With Acid, you not only determine what type of music you want, you actually build the different levels of instruments until you’re happy. Acid is often used for the Internet and for presentations where music loops are needed.

Acid. A high-quality music composition and looping program.