A while back, I found a free MIDI music and sound composer tool called Easy Music Composer Free. Although it’s not the most robust or reliable tool out there (the UI is way kludgey/homegrown and it does have a few bugs here and there … not to mention the free version is limited to 8 [...]

Hayden Porter has written Part 1 of a series of articles on Flash Lite Sound. Sonify Flash Lite – “adding sound to Flash Lite content” – Part 1 covers a lot of intricate and useful tidbits.

podzinger … search engine for podcasts … BBN is behind it. Check it out: http://www.podzinger.com/

Harmony Line is a MIT Media Lab spin off from the hyperscore/Toy Symphony project. Essentially, they have setup a service, H-lounge, and retooled the software, hyperscore (think simplified “garage band”), to help users create and distribute their own custom personalized ringtones. The idea is to make money off personalized ringtones … which amounts to a [...]

… if you like Tarbell you’ll probably like some of this content … inspirational interactive content from storynest (Taiwan) … mostly done with shockwave (some flash pieces).

e-ink has released a developers kit . I wonder if Adobe is looking at this yet? As one of their legacy philosophies is … “if there is a screen, Flash should be on it”. Obviously, the display is very limited at this point ( no color, bad pixel density, refresh rate, etc ) … 12/10/2005 [...]

I got this in the mail recently … this offer is only good for US based folks … it’s a sampler CD from Sony. Might be nice to sample some flash sound effects from, etc. http://www.sony.com/freeloops/

If you’re a musician or the like … this simple (and notably inexpensive) player might be just what your doctor ordered … Wimpy player Easy to setup, configure and get playable videos and mp3s on your site …

On a related note to sound in flash … I came across this off of Vera F’s blog … Using Flash to teach music “Last week at Flash Forward, I ran into my friend Tim. He is an avid violin player and really likes to combine Flash with math and sound. He showed me some [...]

Check this shockwave app out … it’s a simulation of a “theremin” … if you don’t know what that is, well, it’s sort of a new age/space like musical instrument … it’s been used in a few songs to date … probably a bit of rave music to boot … I also read it was [...]