As our internet connections have became faster and internet technology has grown, more and more computer applications have started to become on-line in the web browser. We have seen on-line email applications, office applications and on-line music and video players. But never did I think we would see the on-line music sequencer and that’s exactly what Splice is and because of this I have decided to award splice a place in the hall of fame because it is very innovative.

It is written in flash and you can access the sequencer by going to the main sequencer window. From here you can see we have the basic layout of a music sequencer. On the right we have instruments and effects which we can drag to our left main window. The control bar is located above our left main window.

There is a public library of sound samples which are easily searchable to use, as well as some instruments (Cheap Piano, Sinusoid Synth and a Basic Sampler). There are also some simple effects which you can place in your tracks too.

All in all it is a nice simple sequencer but it’s not going to be used by people who are serious about music production. The reason why I featured this piece of software was because I was quite impressed (for an on-line application) and it shows a possible future for sequencers, as well as showing that in the future musicians may be creating music together from around the world whilst seeing the same screen.

I won’t write any more about it as you can go and try it yourself

What is Good about Splice

• Very innovative (First time I’ve seen an On-line Sequencer)
• Works well and reasonably fast for being an on-line application
• Public sound library to include in tracks.
• You can share tracks by saving them as public.

What is Bad about Splice

• I can’t see it being used by any serious music producers.
• Needs a drum machine.