Mix your own Tunes: Soundation and Aviary

June 28, 2010 4:39 PM

Ever wanted to mix your own tunes? Soundation Studio is "a powerful online sequencer with 11 real time effects, 3 synthesizers, a drum machine and a fully integrated Sound Shop." Want more? "Use Aviary's music creator to simulate dozens of musical instruments including piano, guitars and drums. Create music loops and patterns for use in Aviary's audio editor (Myna) or as ring tones."
posted by Hildegarde (16 comments total)

I was going to roll my eyes at this post, but then I saw it was all _in browser_. Very nice.
posted by Catblack at 4:57 PM on June 28, 2010

Sonofa....I'll cross "online sequencer/recording suite" off my list of get rich slowly schemes. They even had the audacity (pun intended) to take my idea and do it well.
posted by TwoWordReview at 5:01 PM on June 28, 2010

Sweet! I love these things Audiotool is a fun browser-based one as well but fuck if I can figure out how to use their synth.
posted by griphus at 5:14 PM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]

This is pretty great except for when I played with it for 10 minutes and realized my song sounds horrendous. Sigh.
posted by joni. at 5:23 PM on June 28, 2010

Just when I started to get over my Sculptris addiction. Thanks a lot.

No really. Thanks.

And I'll mention, once again, two of my favorite iTouch apps: Bebot and Mixtikl.
posted by Splunge at 5:25 PM on June 28, 2010

All I need is some dude to growl about anger and whatnot for me and I can have a NIN b-side ready pretty quick.

Seriously, Soundation's pretty cool.
posted by davebush at 5:39 PM on June 28, 2010

All I need is some dude to growl about anger and whatnot for me and I can have a NIN b-side ready pretty quick.

Call me.
posted by Splunge at 6:13 PM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]

Pretty cool stuff, allows you publish your creations too. (hah and please ignore my amatuerness)
posted by samsara at 7:00 PM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]

Neat proof of concept, but too limited to make actual music. However, it did make me think a bit more on Google's idea that the browser and operating system will one day be indistinguishable.
posted by DecemberBoy at 7:09 PM on June 28, 2010

However, maybe there's a niche for this kind of thing: you may not care enough about making music to learn Pro Tools and how to tweak an EQ and etc. etc., but you might care enough to play around with something like this.
posted by DecemberBoy at 7:11 PM on June 28, 2010

This is pretty limited compared to audio tool, tbh, though the interface is better.
posted by empath at 7:11 PM on June 28, 2010

agreed.....nice interface .
posted by tm56 at 8:51 PM on June 28, 2010

Pretty cool - here's mine. I think I may have gone overboard on the effects!
posted by AlsoMike at 12:21 AM on June 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Here's mine.

I got bored and gave up at the end. Also, too bad the site encodes the track at a bitrate worse than myspace.
posted by ageispolis at 2:22 PM on June 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Finished the first one I did. Pretty fun! Here's a second. Nice beats AlsoMike and ageispolis!
posted by samsara at 5:36 PM on June 29, 2010

err. second rather
posted by samsara at 5:44 PM on June 29, 2010