Splice: collaborative online studio
experimenting with Splice for the first time is quite an experience: using a flash-based online-sequencer, users arrange audio-loops and soundbites very similar to desktop apps like Reason or Fruity Loops. editing-functionality is reduced to the basics: clips are looped and automatically beat-matched on up to eight tracks which can only be adjusted in volume and panning (no effects or EQ). changing the BPM-rate requires the sequencer to take a break resynching the tracks, signatures aside the omnipresent 4/4 aren’t supported. users can record new samples directly into the flash-application by using a microphone.
while the sequencer itself isn’t much more than a very impressive demo of flash’s multimedia-capabilities, Splice emphasizes on community-features. users offer their creations for being remixed by others and share samples among each other - all that under Creative Commons-licensing. besides 1.000’s of user-created clips & songs, Splice integrates the CC-based audio-database created by the freesoundproject.
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