October 2009 Archives

Roger McGuinn (co-founder of The Byrds) visited our offices in Seattle yesterday to meet the audio engineering team. Roger has been a fan of Audition going back to the Cool Edit days and has also worked closely with our team as a beta user over the years. It was great fun for our team to have a music legend in our midst. Roger is currently on tour in the Pacific Northwest, which is what brought him to Seattle. You can find the latest tour dates and other info about Roger's work on his website.
http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/mcguinn/

You can also watch my interview with Roger on Adobe TV where he talks about making music and using Audition in his creative workflow.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/roger-mcguinn/

Rock On,
Lawson

Last night Soundbooth CS4 won the MacUser Audio of the Year Award as voted on by their readers. It's an honor to be recognized by the MacUser community. This award also acknowledges the huge leap Soundbooth took in CS4 including the new multitrack support, non-destructive editing and volume correction workflows.

Here's a list of all the winners on the MacUser site:
http://awards.macuser.co.uk/categories.html

Ever year at MAX I discover a new Flash audio application. When I rejoined Adobe in 2007 it was the audio editor/remix tool called Digimix that was one of the winners of the first Air Demo Derby. Alan Queen, the developer behind Digimix, joined Aviary last year and re-wrote the application (now called Myna) taking advantage of the latest audio APIs in Flash Player 10.
http://aviary.com/tools/myna#

Last year at MAX 2008 Andre Michelle presented his Flash audio toolbox called Hobnox. It allows you to patch together various synths, drums pads, effects pedals, etc. to create your own electronic music. The user experience is very cool and the simulated pedals and synths sound great.
http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html

This year I saw a really nice piano teaching tool called PianoMarvel which was one of this MAX Award finalists. It's a great way to use the power of Flash to help kids learn to play the piano.
http://www.pianomarvel.com/

And of course there are many others Flash audio apps out there. Here are a couple of others I've run across including...
Noteflight - Music notation tool
RemixGalaxy (formerly know as SpliceMusic) - remix tool for DJs and musicians

There are also a number of audio players on the web taking advantage of Flash including the BBC iPlayer and iHeartRadio from Clear Channel.

As the Flash platform continues to evolve I'm looking forward to discovering the next cool on-line audio experience.

-Lawson