hi there's a common saying amongst creators right shoe edit repeat now a lot of those steps can be
very fluid and pretty quick depending on the project but there's one part of that process
that we all know is not so quick and that is finding music so as you guys know i've been using
soundstripe recently and i am so excited the fact that they just launched their brand new app
now the reason that i love dedicated apps for finding music is because i don't just have to
be sitting at my computer at home in my studio and kind of sitting there for hours on end trying to
find something that works with the project instead i can go out to places that feel more inspiring
like this absolutely beautiful place on vancouver island and i'm able to just listen through the
soundstripe app just like i would any other music streaming platform except now i can actually
catalog things for projects i'm working on so when i actually get home to sit in my chair and edit i
already have a selection of music picked out so real quick i just want to go through what the
soundstripe app looks like and some of the things i love about it and some of the things i hope to
see in future updates all right so let's open up the soundstripe app here and we're greeted with a
home page very similar to what we see when we go to soundstripe's website we can see a collection
of featured playlists and popular song playlists we can view all the different types of playlists
at the bottom we have browse and what i really like is they've integrated all their same
filter searchable things in here so you can go with you know genre characteristics mood if
you're looking for a certain bpm or duration you can set all those parameters however you like just
like you're used to you can search for a specific song or artist and let's go in here to one of the
ones i've been loving is the lo-fi playlist it's set up very similar to any other music streaming
platform which i really like and if we select one of these songs and open it up in the player
were greeted with basically my favorite feature of this entire app and that is the fact that they use
a waveform instead of the traditional like what do they call playhead scrollable bar because here you
can actually sift through the songs and a lot of times i'm listening for like does this have
a good riser build or you know drop off or a good consistent beat all throughout the song
and so you can very quickly kind of go through songs and see what the energy level is throughout
the waveform and jump to the spots that you want to check out it makes finding music so much faster
and so much better now of course you can add things to playlists so right now i'm working on
a vancouver project so i can add that directly to that i can favorite it again all very basic stuff
but one thing that i haven't seen a lot of apps like this being able to do is if i hit the menu
button at the top i can actually hit download and download a mp3 version straight to my phone
and i could save it to my files list and basically by the time i get home to my computer on my mac
it's already synced all of the music files in here now of course you can also view artists view
similar songs which is always helpful if a song is close but not quite exactly there now a couple
things i would love to see in a future update as well again it's awesome being able to download the
song directly to your phone i would love to be able to change the format that you download it
right now it's just mp3 but if you're on soundstripe's website of course you can do a
wav file and i'm kind of a nut for downloading as high quality of a thing as i can so be nice to be
able to save the wav file straight to my phone as an option so that when i do get back i have those
high quality files already on my computer the other thing is soundstripe is amazing because
they allow you to download the stems of each songs or have alternate versions if you want a
instrumental or a shorter or longer version and on the app currently they only play the main version
of that song so of course you can favorite it add it to a playlist then when you get back to
a computer check out all those alternate versions and you at least have an idea of
liking the song but it would be cool to be able to filter through the different versions or the stems
directly on this app but again as version one of this app they've done a fantastic job porting a
lot of their great features straight to the native uh iphone version so as of right now
the app is only available for ios but they are currently in development for an android version
coming in the next couple of months so all of you android people definitely don't worry it is coming
if you guys want to learn more about soundstripe both the app as well as the full service on
the desktop version check out the link in the description and if you want to save an extra 15
off your purchase uh then you can use my special code down there as well uh for now i'm gonna go
back to listening to some stuff building my playlist for my vancouver travel video that
will be coming in the next week or so and just gonna bask in this serenity uh as the sun sets bye
i didn't even tell you i'm like a full-blown audiophile
this is like this is just lo-fi and it sounds so good this is the way to find music hands down
so you could be shooting all day with all your shots in mind vibing out and be
like this is the cut that's pretty cool man i've been doing that with like just
similar vibes in the idea of the edit like i would just
listen to my favorite music and then when it goes to like finding songs i go like i'm just going to
try to find something in that style you know i'm going for like some synth wave stuff or low five
now it's like oh i can actually find the song right now and start editing in my head that's
silly man that's really that's kind of a game changer dude and the song slap that's nuts this
is actually sounds really good the uh i gotta this hurts i gotta take them off it hurts it's so good