PE4_Soundation

After my stint with Ujam I realized that I still had a taste for music on some level, and that I need to delve deeper into available Web 2.0 tools for its creation, production, and publication. Although Ujam has amazing potential, and some truly useful aspects, it does not cover my bases as far as the Rils project is concerned. So, I went back to Go2web20.com and started looking, and I went through every music tagged link on the web site. I only found two Web 2.0 tools that I thought could work for Rills. First was Audiotool.com by Burn Studios, which is a fantastic synth/beat/sequencer in its own right, and one I will investigate further, but still not what I had in mind. And then I hit on Soundation.

When I finally got to really looking at Soundation I knew it was something I was going to have to try. Soundation is a cloud based DAW, digital audio workstation, and in a nut shell, exactly what I was looking for. 

I am not new to DAW's, but dealing with one that is cloud based, or for that matter, any audio tool that resides in cyberspace is all new to me. What I instantly loved about working with Soundation was the familiar feeling of a high end DAW, all the basic tools are there, and many advanced features as well. What I didn't expect, was for it to actually work with any measure of success, or the freedom I was forded by this cloud based tool. 


The Flash engine that runs this thing is spectacular, it hasn't locked up or force quit once, there has been zero audio latency on recording, or lag with multiple tracks playing, and I've had up to 12 running at one time so far. All I can say for the moment is that it works, and works well. Time will tell as they say, but it will function for Rills.