![]() Some of the more nifty features include the ability to attach a Midi keyboard to your computer to play the instruments and a recording feature that will translate your singing into notes. There’s also a small rhythm section that lets you add drums to your songs. It’s no FL Studio, but it’s fun and you get to choose between a few instruments like a piano, strings, woodwinds, a synth and a marimba. It’s essentially an easy to use sequencer that lets you draw melodies in the browser (though it doesn’t feature some of the automation in the Music Lab’s Melody Maker tool). As the name implies, Song Maker is all about making songs. Start making some music with Song Maker: has added a new instrument to its Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker. You can play it in your web browser right now for free with no installs – just start playing. Google launched Song Maker as part of ‘ Music In Our Schools Month‘, an initiative launched in 1985 to push learning music and getting creative to children in exciting new ways. Likewise for the instrument you can choose between a ‘Marimba’, ‘Piano’, ‘Strings’, ‘Woodwind’, and ‘Synth’. You have the option to choose which drum sounds you want from an ‘Electronic’ drum machine sound, ‘Blocks’, a drum ‘Kit’ sound, and a ‘Conga’ sound. Once you’ve made a song you can share it straightaway with friends via a link. ![]() But whilst you can’t make complex melodies with the 7 note scale you can still have some fun with chords. The 2 octave range allows you only to put in natural notes, so it’s a lot easier to sound “right”. It works on a 16 bar loop with 2 beats per bar so that users can simply input a drum line and some notes and see how they sound and refine it to how they want it to sound. ![]() The in-browser app presents a simple template with a kick and snare line at the bottom and a 2 octave blank canvas above. ![]() ![]() Song Maker is their newest hands-on experiment which takes music down to it’s basics with a drum line and a instrument line helping to teach the core of a rhythm and melody. Google just launched the latest app in their Chrome Music Lab experiments which are helping to make learning music accessible and fun. A fun new song maker takes songwriting back to it’s basics so anyone young and old, novice or experienced can make music in their browser. ![]()
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