Today I was turned onto a new online music creation application called Nudge. The user friendly widget allows anyone — even those without any musical knowledge or experience — to compose rhythmic, electronic-based music by “painting” in boxes in 8 different color-coded 16×16 matrixes.
The interface is pretty intuitive and easy to learn in about 6seconds: You can control pitch of the note based on how high or low a box you select and you can control the rhythms by painting in boxes along the 1 measure timeline.
Subsequently, each color-coded matrix corresponds to a different synth instrument sound, including drums. You can control the overall tempo of the music and have the ability to pan each instrument to the left or right channel, control for volume or mute altogether.
One of the cooler aspects of this little app is the ability to share, embed and email your creations to others. Check out one of little bits I put together in about 3minutes:
Obviously you can be as simple or as complex as you want, but the best part is how easily you can just fool around until you get something that sounds pretty great.