14 DAY TRIAL // Indaba Music, the music creation and collaboration service, launched a new version of its digital audio workstation (DAW) Session Console 2.0 bringing high quality audio editing and recording to the web. The application allows musicians working from different locations to collaborate on creating and editing tracks. With the fresh version also come some updates to the membership options and new Community and Sessions pages.
“Indaba Music’s DAW allows our growing community of more than 200,000 artists to create music in an increasingly more efficient and dynamic way,” said Dan Zaccagnino, co-CEO of Indaba Music. “With this new tool musicians can work on a song from any computer, recording high-quality audio, mixing and editing, using non-destructive effects, and tapping into a huge pool of loops and audio clips that are pre-licensed for their use under Creative Commons.”
Built on the new JavaFX platform from Sun Microsystems, Session Console 2.0 finally makes web-based audio editing possible without the performance hit or lack of features usually associated with it. The fresh version focuses on three main improvements or new features. The first one is the high quality recording capability now available without the need for external tools.
The increased performance also means that real-time effects processing is possible, without the skipping or any other problems usually found here, which means you can preview how the effect will sound before applying it to the audio track. The new version of Session Console also comes with a library of Creative Commons-licensed loops and audio clips to use in tracks.
The membership options have also been changed and now include a free account with 100 MB of storage and no offline capabilities, a $5 a month offering with 500 MB of storage, offline use, Pro Audio Effects and the audio clips library and finally a $25 a month membership with unlimited storage, unlimited public sessions and everything from the lower tiers.