We have seen a lot of online media applications lately, but none have really struck my musical chord as Splice has.
What is it? It is an early version of an online music creation community. Think of it as a very basic sequencer tied to a social community for sharing music and samples all licensed under Creative Commons.
Now this is something I can get excited about. I mean Online Video Editing is nice, but this online music sequencing is something I can loose hours playing with. It could use some more high quality, filters, effects and samples in addition to the ones from ccMixter and the Free Sound Project and you'll be able to create a new track without ever needing to have any gear, music software or studio time. You do not even need hard drive space to store the tracks.
I am not exactly sure what their business model is. Is it advertising, white label licensing/hosting, charging for samples? Who knows, better read their terms of use.
Check out this nice progressive theme v5 by antti. I also like the fact that it drops you right into the sequencer with all the settings enabled. That makes it very easy to make a remix and it also allows you to easily learn from how others use the software. It is one of the things that I really liked when Nine Inch Nails released sequenced tracks for ProTools for people to play with. I had a similar track, I think it was for Reason, by Charlie Clouser that was just amazing.
I created an account, but I have not had any time to create anything. Hopefully in due time. ;-) Enjoy and please let me know what you come up with. I'd love to check it out.