If you’re musician, producer, artist, beat-maker or general music enthusiast you would of surely have heard of Pro Tools as the application of choice for many to produce the hart-tugging moments that affect our lives. But, if you’re new to music production and decide to fire up the music tool everyone talks about, you might be overwhelmed by the options and lack of ease of use without countless lessons required to be a professional.
That was our experience when we first tested Liquid Loops during its development stage, prior to its recent launch. As music lovers but without any understanding of how music was produced, opening up the application left us with the question “What do I do now?” But with some useful tutorial videos and a quick explanation of the process we were quickly putting together beats – that might be flawed to a trained ear – was magical to us.
It’s 7:37am, the sun is just peeping out, birds are chirping, but all you hear is BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, no its not the sound of the police, it’s the sound of the alarm that only makes you want to hit snooze. If you don’t use a classic alarm clock and use your mobile to trigger the start of your day, we’re sure you’re only native options are the traditional ring tones that come with the device – not the most pleasant way to wake up.
Relationships have many high notes and low notes, but starting out dating someone new always should start on the right note, and a note that both parties can vibe with. Fellody helps music lovers find other people to have fun with or to flirt with based on mutual tastes in music. The new startup, Fellody (fellow + melody), by Thomas Vatter and Robin Simon, focuses on music taste as the major criteria for harmony between two people.
Spotmeup is a new tool to help bands and artists get their own music onto Spotify. This free service makes it possible for anyone serious about music to get distribution on Spotify’s large network for downloading. The application is built with only one goal in mind: To be super easy to use. And by also enabling Dropbox support, musicians can get their music uploaded twice as fast by simply sharing a music folder with Spotmeup.
“Play to Learn” – what a great concept! If education could be as fun as “playing” would children and adults learn more and would they learn the right way? Playground Sessions thinks so. By working with teachers, musicians and gaming experts they have created a revolutionary learning method where by you pick songs you know and love to learn, an have fun practicing in an interactive environment with real-time gamification elements, all while learning how to play the piano.
Vimeo launched their new Music Store service in September, a new service that should make it easier for video creators to discover and use music for their works, but it wasn’t until recently that we got to test how fun and inexpensive it was to use the service developed by the popular video sharing site.
What if a greeting card could be much more then a meaningful message from a loved one? What if the message could then encompass technology and tie in a modern-day mixtape to go with the words, and now add music with the message. The team over at Stupid have created Playlist Cards for the technologically inclined to make that opportunity a reality.
Crunch.fm is a application that makes your Tweets more musical. By integrating the Crunch.fm application to your Twitter account, you can use their service to search for a track, listen to a stream of the track (via YouTube) and then share the track with your followers.
Developed during last week’s hackday.tv, a 24 hour video hackday, Casey Pugh started the Music Video Genome: aiming to be Te Pandora of Music Videos. Powered by VHX, users search for any artist in any genre and the platform generates a personalized music video channel structured around the user’s selection.
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England and hosts the annual Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts from June 22nd – June 26th. New-Startups.com is not usually about sharing the details about music festivals, but what really caught our attention is the fun Glastonbury festival app available for the iPhone, iPad, Android and Nokia.
