Those of you readers with an interest in ACIEED (and the Roland machines that make it) will be well familiar by now with the Hobnox Autiotool, a fantastic environment for making music. Not only does the Audiotool sound incredibly like the classic machines it's charged with emulating (the 303 sounds almost as good as the proprietary AudioRealism Bassline instrument that I use), but it's free!The Audiotool didn't necessarily need anything new; it already allowed the user to have as many instances of the TR-808 drum machine, TR-909 drum machine, or TB-303 bass synthesizer, as your processor could handle (not to mention 12 neat stompbox-like effects). Plus, you could record! There's still no sequencer, or ability to automate parameters or go back and post-edit anything you record...but seriously, for a free tool? It's some next-level stuff. Prepare to be rocked by the latest addition, the ToneMatrix:
Inspired by Yamaha's Tenori-On, the ToneMatrix is a new synthesizer that plays a pretty chime tone, with notes scaled by a matrix of buttons. While the ToneMatrix doesn't have the sampling capabilities of the Tenori-On, and cannot be used as a controller (nor can different rules be implemented for pattern sequencing), it's still a pretty incredible innovation from the truly brilliant minds at Hobnox. It should really be heard to be best understood:
Got it? Good. Now if you're human, chances are that somewhere, deep inside you, you have the desire to create. ToneMatrix now makes it incredible user-friendly to make beautiful melodies with a few clicks of a mouse. There's even preset modes to start you off. Happy music-making!
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