In order to demonstrate the ability of the Aviary tools, Myna and Roc, I created a music track purely based on free sounds that were already available in the web 2.0 tool. First, I created a rock beat in Roc. I first opened the Myna tool, selected the beats tab, and was directed to Roc automatically. When in the Roc I selected a rock style beat and was given a template with rock beat sounds complete with kick drum, snare, toms, and cymbals. Beats are created by selecting fractions of a beat over a period of two measures, or eight beats. If your not sure what that means, all the musicians out there do. Once I created the beat I liked, it was a simple process to save and import into the Myna tool.
Myna was able to import the drum track without any issues. I found an interesting sounding track within Myna to add to the drum track and imported it into the session. Myna has a few editing tools, like fades, trimming, and track muting, that I used to make the song sound like a seamless unit.
Over the course of the project, I used Screencast-o-matic.com to document some of the steps. The video below quickly shows some of the screens and processes for creating music quickly for use in video projects. I didn't use the recording feature of Myna, which is limited in feature, but has the capability of recording short segments of voice and instrument.
The Aviary tools are fairy simple to use, are cost free, and has music that can be used royalty free. The features for Myna and Roc are fairly limited compared to software versions like Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Nuendo, but you can't beat free.
PE5_RILS from David Middlebrook on Vimeo.
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