Aviary, a startup that offers a suite of online media editing tools, has announced that it has acquired Digimix, a small company that creates browser-based audio editing software. Aviary is incorporating the technology into its own audio editor, dubbed ‘Myna’, which the company plans to release in the next few weeks. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Digimix’s Flash-based audio editor can handle up to fifteen tracks in real-time, though its homepage indicates it has not yet launched to the public (you can see a demo video of the technology in action below). The editor appears to offer some of the functionality offered by popular audio editors like GarageBand, but it will be available online with no installation required.
Other products in Aviary’s line of browser-based editors include Raven (a vector editor similar to Adobe’s Illustrator), Phoenix (an image editor comparable to Photoshop), Peacock (a ‘visual laboratory’ for pixel-based images), and Toucan, which helps users choose complementary colors for their projects.
The Digimix acquisition indicates that the Aviary team is finally prepared to expand beyond its suite of impressive image-based products. But by the looks of things, they’re just getting started: aside from the upcoming audio product, Aviary lists a plethora of other tools in the works, including a font creator, a terrain editor, and a word processor.
I will try Aviary as I have never heard of it before. I hope the acquisition would be beneficial for aviary.
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For a company that provides the tools to design logos online the quality of their own logo isn’t much of an endorsement.
Google’s incredibly awesome logo disagrees with you.
God I hate that awful thing.
The hidden eggs in it (easter eggs?) are a neat touch.
you should watch some of the time lapse video demos, they clearly have mad design skills. i think the bubbly snake logo you might be referring to that shows up on the homepage is user contributed example.
This is kind of stupid. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to use this. Most people just don’t have the bandwidth to waste sending uncompressed audio to and from the could, when everything could just be processed locally much more quickly.
I am much impressed with their Media Editing Tools!
Have used and using Raven and found pretty cool
Sounds interesting and looking for something great with DigiMix from Aviary!
Cheers!
I agree, aviary rocks. I have been a big fan for quite some time.
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Man, that must be such a powerful cloud app right now. what’s next videos?
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very interesting acquisition, congrats Aviary.
I tried the Aviary stuff a while ago and its pretty cool, especially for people who don’t need the full suite of the Adobe mega (expensive) pack on an everyday basis.
I’d like someone with Silverlight experience to comment as to how easily SL can be used to replicate what Aviary provides via Flex. Don’t want to start a flame-war for either product. Just have been very impressed with Aviary and what they’ve done with Flex. Have not seem similar SL applications. Thanks.
I cannot help but read ovary when looking at the logo.
If nothing else it will give the status quo a run for it’s money and fuel innovation from the current big players. It does bring up some interesting concepts.
Silverlight can do most of it. For example, aviary’s version of illustrator could be done just as good. Where Silverlight has issues is that it cant create bitmap images on the fly. It also cant play wav/aiff files only mp3’s. SL is lacking the level of refinement that Flash has at the moment. SL 3 will be out later this year and I’m sure those things will be addressed.
The thing with SL is that it has a robust programming model from the start. So it’s far easier for Microsoft to go to where Flash is (i.e. bitmap fx, imaging etc..) than it is for Flash to do what SL can do (talking to html elements, wcf ado.net services, c# etc..)
At the moment I’d put Flash ahead if you want/need to wow people. If you want a “sane” dev environment for ria’s SL is cool…
this rocks… javascript eat your heart out! mwhahahaha…
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Can you steal the streams off of MySpace with this thing? LOL, just kidding. I don’t know about an “online audio editor” but a lot of people (dumb noobies) want an “online beat maker”.
Great app, very usefull.
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