Ambox

Making music is now an activity which doesn’t necessarily rely on actual instruments anymore. Sure enough, you PC needs to be fitted with powerful hardware components, as well as some specialized applications to replace the instruments. For instance, Ambox can help build various melodies with little effort.

Can be used on the go

One of the main advantages is that there’s no need to go through a setup process to make the application work. This means that you can deploy it on a thumb drive to always have this virtual instrument at hand, and use it on other computers without having to worry that the health status gets affected, since registry entries are not affected.
A small window shows up when the application is launched, and you might end up scratching your head for a while, at least until you press a few buttons. On the other hand, there’s not really a need for a documentation file, because core functions are self-explanatory and take only a couple of seconds to figure out.

Leaves much to be desired

You notice a grid of buttons shaped as pentagons with no actual tags or descriptions. Audio feedback is delivered as soon as you press buttons. You don’t get to interact with the keyboard, but only the mouse. Each button represents a custom track, and you can combine multiple ones to generate a cool song.
Sadly, you don’t really get to create a work of art through the application, which mostly comes in handy for creating live background audio for short events. There’s little variety when it comes to sound selection, and there’s no built-in option to record sound.

A few last words

All things considered, we can state that Ambox comes with a decent list of high-quality sounds, but the library is rather poor, and doesn’t really allow for a great deal of mixing options. You can use it on the go, but without the possibility to change sound banks, or record, practicality has a lot to suffer.