SOUNDRAW Review: It's alright. I don't love it.

3 stars
3 stars

This is a neat program. Making the initial creations is super easy. It sure is convenient to have royalty free music readily available without paying per track, having to credit a track to your video, or having a RF subscription service. You do get to customize tracks to length up to 5 minutes as well as the general vibe. When selecting corporate it really does have a corporate vibe. I think it's far more limited than I expected. For example if I select a Happy Mood and Acoustic Genre the only available instrument is Acoustic Guitar. When I create that music I get 15 tracks that are pretty similar with slight differences in BPM or key. No problem - just hit the create button again for 15 more tracks.... to get 15 more that generally sound the same. Other moods and genres are more creative and forgiving to the above problem. Creation is limited in another way... selecting a mood quickly cuts down on the next option. Ie. Choosing 'dynamic mood' eliminates 16 of the 20 genre choices. I think the sad/horror mood really misses the mark. Let me compare it to a popular app like Garage Band. Garage Band has all the neat loops and sounds and instruments and ability to create sounds with technical detail. You probably have to have a lot of knowledge and time to intelligently produce an awesome unique track out of that. I certainly don't have the skill for that. Soundraw is the exact opposite. No skill necessary but you won't get a killer track. You're going to get your choice of 3 different Marimba sounds/beats. Soundraw may be just the thing for you if what's important is the track is royalty free, fits the feel of your video, and is easily accessible.

KeithCHT
KeithCHT
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    Tao_Soundraw
    Tao_SoundrawFounder team
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    Thank you, miller.keith for the thorough review!
    Soundraw is, as you said, a tool that allows people without musical composition knowledge to create songs that match their content - videos, games, podcasts, etc.

    I understand from your review that what made you feel the product was limited is a lack of variety in the songs generated by Soundraw, a problem more or less acute depending on the genre chosen.

    We're constantly adding new genres and expanding the ones we already have with more musical variety. We hope the number of genres and musical variety in general will stop being a problem for some of our users very soon!