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As a frequent user of SoundCloud, Gobbler and plain old DropBox to share audio files among fans and colleagues in the industry, I am wondering what the advantag

As a frequent user of SoundCloud, Gobbler and plain old DropBox to share audio files among fans and colleagues in the industry, I am wondering what the advantage of Sawtooth could be? I see that you have filters etc., but given that I would rather adjust EQ and effects on my tracks on my own DAW with virtually no latency, I don't know that I would actually do that on a web platform with all the vagaries of lag, dropped signals etc.? Plus the fact that most audio people have their favourite 'go to' plugins for reverb, delay, chorus etc. as VST/AU plugins that they pull into their DAW - it seems that Sawtooth straddles that line between being a quick 'grab an audio recording snippet for sharing' and a full fledged web based DAW. I am assuming a 'use case' for this would be to capture a song or riff idea while I was sitting in a hotel room between travelling etc., but to be honest, I have a lot of iPhone apps for doing that and posting directly to the sites I mentioned above. To make Sawtooth compelling, it would probably have to supply some rudimentary DAW like capabilities, such as perhaps a metronome, some sort of ability to do basic MIDI patterns with uploaded samples, and perhaps some rudimentary multi track ability - even 3 or 4 tracks would be great for doing basic song ideas to send to my band members.

myzie 10y ago
Gobbler looks great. Have you used the collaboration features and have they worked well for you? One of the goals is to streamline the experience of navigating and listening to sets of files. If it's built correctly, then using Sawtooth should be a smoother experience than managing where your files live in your Dropbox folders, having it sync them, finding them on another computer, then listening with a separate media player or the player in your OS file navigator (thinking of Finder on MacOS). This is not meant to replace any of your desktop DAWs. If anything, it could interoperate with them in certain cases, if people are interested in that. Maybe an API would be handy for others developing websites or apps that work with audio. I'd like Sawtooth to keep simple audio work really simple. I suspect it's easy to overwhelm newcomers to the audio world with complicated UIs (which are necessary for advanced work). Gobbler for example seems very geared towards musicians and music creation, which is great for many. But there are also lots of people working with audio for other reasons... field recordings, voice recordings (podcasts etc), signal analysis, etc. Maybe Sawtooth becomes more optimized for one of those other cases.

myzie 10y ago

Gobbler looks great. Have you used the collaboration features and have they worked well for you? One of the goals is to streamline the experience of navigating and listening to sets of files. If it's built correctly, then using Sawtooth should be a smoother experience than managing where your files live in your Dropbox folders, having it sync them, finding them on another computer, then listening with a separate media player or the player in your OS file navigator (thinking of Finder on MacOS). This is not meant to replace any of your desktop DAWs. If anything, it could interoperate with them in certain cases, if people are interested in that. Maybe an API would be handy for others developing websites or apps that work with audio. I'd like Sawtooth to keep simple audio work really simple. I suspect it's easy to overwhelm newcomers to the audio world with complicated UIs (which are necessary for advanced work). Gobbler for example seems very geared towards musicians and music creation, which is great for many. But there are also lots of people working with audio for other reasons... field recordings, voice recordings (podcasts etc), signal analysis, etc. Maybe Sawtooth becomes more optimized for one of those other cases.