Canadian Musician - September/October 2020 | Page 74

TECH
TOOLS
Songwriting University enables songwriters at any level to collaborate,
learn from, and write a song with a professional songwriter
via live video from anywhere in the world. The company’s growing
faculty of Grammy-winning songwriters has over 3,000 major song
cuts and over 100 number-one songs in country, pop, Christian,
and foreign music combined. Their writers have written with or for
Aerosmith, P!nk, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Dolly Parton, Smokey
Robinson, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Rogers, and more. As well, Juno
Award-winner Suzie McNeil was recently added to the roster.
www.songwritingu.com.
The Audiobridge music recording app is designed to lower
the barrier to entry when it comes to high-quality music
recording. Its creators call it the “first fully-guided music creation
platform.” Built solely for mobile and tablet devices, the Audiobridge
platform is meant to be intuitive and much simpler than
popular DAWs, allowing artists to edit tracks directly on their
device. Currently, through the company’s Wefunder campaign,
creators can also own a stake in Audiobridge.
www.audiobridgeapp.com.
Mastering on SoundCloud, powered by Dolby, is a new mastering
tool directly integrated into a creator’s SoundCloud workflow. It’s designed
to be easy to use, enabling artists to choose from a custom
suite of mastering styles and generate masters without leaving their
SoundCloud account. It’s powered by Dolby’s audio technology and
costs $4.99 per mastered track. As well, SoundCloud Pro Unlimited
subscribers get three free masters every month.
creators.soundcloud.com/mastering-on-soundcloud.
SoundGym has launched ToneGym, an online ear-training
platform that enables musicians to improve their skills, connect,
compete, and help each other through “deep gamification” and
deliberate practice methods. Each member gets a personalized
ear-training program and a daily workout that fits their musical
skills. Training sessions are made of ear-training games and music
theory exercises that help users to develop musical intuition.
By playing multi-level musical games, members improve core
skills such as interval detection, scale recognition, chord
progression, sense of rhythm, and more. www.tonegym.co.
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