Flash music software

Online creative tools site Aviary has introduced Myna – a free Web site that’s like Garageband 1.0 for your Web browser.

Myna lets you record music to your computer and save it to the site, and gives you the basic tools to make loop-based music.

Myna’s too slow and cumbersome to be of much interest to most musicians. However, just as cheap video cameras and Youtube have revolutionized the world of video, cheap computer mics and browser based music software like Myna are likely to soon radically change music.

Details on Myna below. Read more…

Remember ToneMatrix – Andre Michelle’s addictive-like-crack Flash audio sequencer?

It’s been added to AudioTool, the browser-based virtual studio:

We have release a small update of the AudioTool and included André’s ToneMatrix. Some features that have been implemented in the last weeks are online as well. Removing an effect for instance will not destroy the cables. The desktop scales now without interrupting the audio output and various other performance tweaks have been made.

Here’s an example of what this glossy bit of Flash yumminess can do:

Kiss an hour of your life goodbye, right about now. Here’s the link.

Here’s a demo Hobnox’s Audiotool in action – this is the state of the art in browser-based music composition.

Here’s some audio demos of what Audiotool can do, via Andrea Michelle:

HobNox has updated their Audiotool browser-based virtual studio so that you can now record electronic music right in your browser.

The Hobnox Audiotool update provides some new features like more robust audio signal processing, dynamically adding plugins and live recording.

Here is a detailed list of the new features:

Flashplayer 10 support

Adobe now provides a ew Sound API to stream audio to the sound card. Now, entirely processed in Flash, the audio latency is more satisfying and the output more stable. You simply get a better experience.

Live Recording

The tool will also now allow to record a live audio session to your harddrive: WYHIWYG (What you hear is what you get):

We transcoded a Vorbis Encoder (better quality than MP3) to Actionscript to shrink the filesize of the recorded audio in order for you to upload it into your user profile library. We can’t wait to hear what you guys will be producing and are really excited about this development. 

Plugin Shelf

At the bottom of the screen shot above, you will see a ‘Dock’-like shelf. With this you’ll have full control of the plugins you want to use. You’ll be able to drag & drop plugins into and from the shelf. You’ll only see the devices you want to use and not the full inital setup like before. 

New stomp-boxes

Hobnox has added some new effect devices, like Compressor, Gate, Phaser and a Slope (Filter unit) as well as a Merger and a Splitter.

via David