Since I am well versed in audio production and not at all on image editing, I chose to explore the Myna application in the Aviary suite.
Myna compares very well to the multi-track environment of Adobe Audition and would probably seem comfortably familiar to Garage Band users as well.
In the multi-track session above, I have 3 tracks: a voice-over and two tracks of music. I can easily move these tracks around to sync the music to the voiceover anywhere I want. The screen shot above also has the automation track visible for 2 of my 3 tracks. This is where I am able to manipulate the volume and other elements of the sound file. I can also edit how much of the file I use by trimming it from either the left or right side.
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| Close up view of an individual music clip in Myna. The yellow line indicates volume adjustments. Dragging the upper ends inward allow a user to edit the clip by limiting how much of it is used. Dragging the lower end outward allows the clip to loop or repeat, seamlessly. |
Finally, by simply double-clicking the file I can open up the effects window. Below you can see that I chose to add reverb to the top track, but you can see in the list on the right that there are several other effects to choose from.
Students often struggle to make deadlines and some try to work from home where they may not have all the resource of the school’s computer lab. While getting comfortable and knowledgeable with Adobe Audition is required for my Audio Production class. I can see several instances where using Myna could help students create at home and supplement their work in class. They could even save their work online for free, then download the .mp3 once they are in class.
Take a listen to the brief piece of work that I put together in Myna. It’s just a reworking of a piece of my 1-minute video for BlogAmp. It doesn’t have the reverb that I mentioned above and it does contain a “speak-o”…that’s like a typo, but spoken…but it illustrates the flexibility and capability of Myna. Also, it illustrates the benefit of their limited free online storage and the ability to embed a player, right in your blog...perhaps, easier than BlogAMP!
The only real drawback of Myna compared to Adobe Audition is that Audition gives you the capability to physically edit and modify an individual sound clip. Myna does not provide this, though with proper trimming and sequencing, you could accomplish comparable results with Myna’s multi-track environment.
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