Hi,

do you know of any websites (I have the AA site) where we can download some freestyle music?

Thanks
Jv

If you want to do your own, go to www.download.com where you can find some freeware basic music editing software. I used a program to put a few songs together for a freestyle routine.

I mix freestyle music.

I PM'ed you.

Lemme know if your interested.


Josh

Get Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
definitely the best free software to mix freestyle music.
Used by many Artistic Aerobatics pilots

Yes, Audacity is pretty solid and easy to use. I use ProTools which is a little more flexible, but very costly. I used it when I mixed some music for the TOC. I think the secret of good freestyle (lets call it AA) music is the CHOICE of track and the different pace that you create both with the music and the plane. When you get down to it, it can make or break your performance, no matter how technical or extreme you fly.

Isn't ProTools only for Mac?
If you wanna buy, CoolEdit 2000 is the best choice for PC, just include the Studio plugin (provides multitrack) and you're set for less than 100 bucks

Oops! If you want just to download freestyle music, it's going to be pretty difficult these days if you're looking for copyrighted music. You better make your own

Thats right, however we are working on the copyright issue for performance at AA events. No, ProTools is Mac and PC, it is a standard in the industry for digital recording and mixing/editing. Its a great package, but perhaps not much use to most, Audacity is a good start anyway and CoolEdit is great too, I have heard of that one.

artistic-aero, copyright is not an issue when performing the music. It IS an issue when placing it on a web site for download or streaming. Many sites are being closed and owners prosecuted these days for such things

Like the others, I made my own music. Although I used goldwave instead. www.goldwave.com

Hmmm! have to look into it. What is nice with CoolEdit, though, is that you can alter the speed (keeping the pitch) with pretty good results to get the exact duration you need, as it is a simplified version of the pro version CoolEdit Pro, a true worldwide standard with music professionals.
http://www.syntrillium.com
Actually what we need (and what I use most) is the ability to cut & paste, mix tracks, fade and alter levels to reduce dynamics for best outdoor performance. Also switching from stereo to mono is a requisite when the music is played on a field with sometimes dozens of loudspeakers and over a line extending up to 1,000 feet.

Well our issue would be with the performance of that music, and the copyright and royalty required for the public to hear it. Which means once you have created your masterpiece, you want it heard while you fly.

Getting the best from the speaker system is all about compression of the music, I have a few settings which allow for dynamic bass through to playing in a tin can... depends on what system is being used. Thes best you can hope for is a wedge speaker somewhere near you and the judges and little or no delay from the main set. I also have a mono and stereo version on my CD.

I don't think its an issue for many pilots what program they use, so long as for beginners it is simple and they can achive the first steps quickly and easily. You can spent nothing or thousands (hundreds of thousands for a Protools studio... its used in the film, video and audio industry).. its up to you. Thats a lot of models though...

This is definitely not an issue. Nothing different from what is done at any model day or freestyle comp where music is played on the field. It is just a matter of paying the licence fee to the collecting society. Easy and usually quite inexpensive. Here in the Czech Rep. it is handled by OSA http://www.osa.cz, there is a variety of tariffs ranging from disco bars to telephone jingles, in our case the "performance at sporting event" applies although this may vary from country to country. What is more, besides the set fee there is usually a possibility to obtain a reduced fee for a non-paying event, a low spectators number (i.e. less than 1,000), etc.
In your country this is handled by the Performing Right Society www.prs.co.uk, from what I heard last year a phone call may be enough to get all the details one needs. I know this is how the 3D Masters organizers did last year, they said that for a very modest fee they could play all the music they wanted all day long.

Of course this is irrelevant when you practice on your field without spectators.

Well that's great news.

Does anyone know the name of the slow theme that Frazer Briggs used at the beginning of his sequence by chance??

During what performance? In the 2000 TOC he used the theme song from the movie "Legends of the Fall" by James Horner. I think he may have used it in 2002 also, but I'm not sure. While we're on the subject, does anyone know what opera Christophe used to start his 2000/2002 freestyles? It kinda sounds Italian.

The music is Andrea Bocelli
The Song is Con Te Partiro or Time to say good bye

Take some of your CD's and save the song and add it onto your vid. Much better than the some of the classical music ive heard some using

Thanks Kiwicuz!!!