Soundtrack/Score Creation?

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Folks:

First off, thanks for the forum.

I am a fairly advanced video editor using Avid Media Composer. In the past the majority of my projects for clients either didn’t need specialized soundtracks or we could use existing music – but now a couple of clients are wanting to lay in music but we can’t use copyrighted tracks for obvious reasons. Before I’d been able to find acceptable music using creation software like Sonic Fire Pro, but those usually ended up sound a bit cheesy (sorry SFP).

Is there a decent program out there that comes with existing royalty-free track libraries that I can somewhat personalize to projects (like SFP but maybe a bit more professional sounding)? I don’t have musicians available to actually perform soundtracks, so programs that seem to crop up when I search for “Music Creation Software” (like Pro Tools) all seem to be for editing already recorded tracks (not what I need).

Suggestions? Thanks for any advice.

Tom