News from the Next basement

It has been a while since we updated you with recent news from the Next basement. We have been and still are extremely busy on the big update for Audiotool Next. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram to get previews and insights first hand.

2015

We think now it is save to say that we mastered the biggest milestones and problems that come with HTML5 and live-collaboration. Both were big challenges. HTML5 is not meant to build applications with that level of complexity. We had to reinvent the wheel several times to get moving forward.

The biggest challenge however and at the same time one of the most amazing feature of Audiotool Next is live-collaboration. It took quite some time to figure out on how we could actually approach this. We wanted to have the most stable solution but also the most concurrent one. Users should be able to work on a tracks at different locations simultaneously without getting conflicts. It took us months to narrow down a solution that unfortunately forced us to rewrite huge parts of already implemented features. Anyway, without going into further details: we are done with that part now and finally moving forward. And we think it is the best solution we could possibly have!

2016

We are still catching up with the feature set of the Flash application but also do not ignore the low hanging fruits. With the new code foundation some features were very easy to implement. So we have tempo-automation working and a default set of grooves. The timeline is detachable to a second screen. There is a video/audio chat for live-collaborations. And much, much more. It is still hard to make an estimate on a launch date though. We will tell you the second we know.

Stay Creative!

Audiotool Next will not change Audiotool itself. It is still worth it to make tracks with Audiotool right now. All tracks will be migrated into the new Next world once we go online. So even making music with Next will be easier and more social, it won’t sound completely different. We will not start working on new plugins before we launched Next 1.0. You stay creative, we stay focused!

Thanks for making Audiotool what it already is!