. Audiotool
Audiotool is a free, web-based application for electronic music production. It is a user-friendly, flash-based interface that is meant to serve as a fully functioning virtual studio. Users simply drop and drag synthesizers, drum machines, sequencers, filters, samples, and note sequences into the workspace from a toolbar. In fact, each tool is tabbed with a link to its respective page on the Audiotool wiki, where users can learn precisely how it functions in the system.
From here the virtual workspace is as manipulable as the real thing. Users can click and drag to adjust knobs, push buttons, switch the wiring and sequencing of instruments, or simply move things around. In addition, scrolling allows users to zoom in on or expand their workspace.
The application also includes a fully-functioning multitrack recorder (though not as user-friendly as the free software program Audacity) where users can record, edit, save, and export their sound experiments. Audiotool is especially effective for looping and sequencing sound, so it is a productive medium for even the least experienced musician. (Just start pushing buttons, and you will be making music in no time!) The major drawback of Audiotool is that while it has a variety of options to choose from for sound creation, more sophisticated users (or those who play an actual instrument) will either need to import music recorded elsewhere (e.g., a guitar or vocal track) or export what they create in Audiotool in order to complete a project, and since Audiotool is a web-based application designed to function as a stand-alone virtual studio, the functionality of both importing and exporting is less than ideal.
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