Jean from work passed me this link for an audio mixing tool today, http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html. Be warned that the app tries to access your machine (I assume to get ahold of the audio files).
I’ve only really had time to play with the interface, and not really the actual audio side of it, but I must say as rich clients go this is impressive. It’s the kind of flash app that tries to bring across the UI metaphors from the physical world that it’s modeling literally into the application. Not sure if I agree with this approach of modeling the real world in software, but can see how in the audio tooling world the familiarity can be a bonus, and this approach has actually been executed quite cleanly here.
I believe it has a combination of java and flash client side smarts, and is quite a heavy app to start with.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
This thing looks really cool. The pedals look like real pedals and the Rhythm Composer has digital masking tape over the Roland logo!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Just a quick note that we just rolled out an update of the Hobnox Audiotool. As promised the TR808 is now online, along with two new stompboxes (Compressor and Bitcrusher) and some enhanced functions. Saving is still not possible yet, we’re working hard to make it happen for the next update.
More infos here: http://tinyurl.com/68wgvb