Why We Built Onomo
Every tool to make and release music lives in a different app — and most of them cost more than a bedroom artist makes. We thought that was backwards, so we built the whole thing into one browser tab and made the creative half free. Here's the thinking.
How Motion Hears Your Song
Most video editors see your track as a waveform — a shape to scrub past. Motion treats it as a score. Here's how binding a visual to the kick actually works, and why it makes the move that takes an evening of keyframing into one click.
The Free Tier Is the Real Product
Most 'free' creative tools are a demo with the good parts locked. Ours isn't. Every synth, every drum engine, every effect, every surface is free — and that's a deliberate stance, not a launch promo. Here's why we drew the line where we did.
A Voice Memo App That Transcribes — Built for Songwriters
Your phone is full of 'New Recording 47' you never revisit. Onomo's Journal Memos records a hum or idea and transcribes it live, into a searchable library — then sends the words straight to your lyrics.
Train Your Ear With Games: A Tour of Onomo's Music Arcade
Ear training is the most useful skill a producer can build and the most boring to practice. Onomo turns it into games — here's what's in the Arcade and why playing it actually makes you better.
A Songwriting App With a Built-In Rhyme Engine (134,000 Words, Fully Offline)
Stop tabbing out to a rhyme website mid-verse. Onomo's Journal has a 134,000-word rhyme engine built into the lyric editor — perfect, near, and slant rhymes, even multi-word ones, all offline.
A Guide to Onomo's 20 Synth Engines (Which One to Reach For)
Onomo ships 20 different synth engines, and they're not 20 flavors of the same thing — they're genuinely different instruments. Here's what each one is for, so you stop scrolling and start choosing.
The Fastest Idea-to-Release Workflow in Onomo (Song, Cover, and Video in One Sitting)
Onomo's real superpower isn't any single tool — it's that they connect. Here's a power-user workflow that takes a raw idea all the way to a finished song, cover, and video without leaving the tab.
12 Onomo Features You're Probably Not Using (But Should Be)
Most people use a fraction of what Onomo can do. Here are twelve genuinely useful features — hidden knobs, shortcuts, and cross-surface tricks — that'll make you faster and your tracks better.
How to Make Music With Friends Online (Real-Time Collaboration in Onomo)
Producing together usually means emailing project files back and forth and hoping you both own the same software. Onomo lets you work in the same session at the same time — here's how.
How to Make a Lyric Video in Your Browser Without Manually Syncing Every Word
Stop frame-by-frame syncing. Onomo's Motion editor imports lyric timings from Journal Write automatically — here's how to make a pro lyric video in your browser, start to finish.
How to Make Album Cover Art: A Real Design Guide (Free, In-Browser)
The design principles that separate a pro single cover from an amateur one — focal point, type, 3D titles, layer effects — built step by step in a free browser editor.
How to Make a Music Video in Your Browser (Free, No Software to Install)
A full walkthrough of making a music video online for free — load your song, cut to the beat grid, add clips and text, make the visuals react to the music, and export an MP4 for any platform.
How to Make a Lyric Video Without Manually Syncing Every Word
Four ways to time lyrics to your song in the browser — tap-to-time, manual editing, .lrc import, and automatic Whisper alignment that times the words for you — plus karaoke rendering and MP4 export.
How to Get Pro-Sounding Results in Onomo (Browser Production Done Right)
"It's in a browser" is not why a track sounds amateur — the choices you make are. Here's how to get genuinely professional results out of Onomo, from gain staging to your final export.
Beat Drowning Out the Blank Page: Onomo's Free Generators (Foundry)
Sometimes you just need a starting point — a kit, a loop, a chord idea — right now. Foundry generates them for free, no AI credits, no copyright worries, sent straight into your project.
From Idea to Release in One Tab: Why You Don't Need 7 Apps to Finish a Song
Stop juggling a DAW, lyric doc, cover-art editor, video tool, and AI generator. Here's how one browser tab can take you from a voice memo to a finished release without ever exporting a file.
How to Use Automation in Onomo (Make Your Tracks Move and Breathe)
Static tracks sound flat. Automation — moving parameters over time — is what makes a song feel alive. Here's how to automate volume, filters, tempo, and more in Onomo, including a couple of tricks most DAWs don't have.
How to Make Visuals That React to Your Music (Bind Effects to the Kick, Bass, or Vocal)
Most 'audio-reactive' tools pulse to the whole track at once. Onomo's Motion editor lets you bind a visual — scale, blur, opacity, color — to a single element of the song, like the kick or the vocal. Here's how it works.
The Artist Notebook That Keeps Every Music Idea in One Place
A guided tour of Onomo's Journal and its six modes — Write, Memos, Notes, Brainstorm, Concept, and Manage — and how capturing anywhere connects into one place you actually use.
How to Make an Animated Album Cover (Looping Cover Video, Free)
Turn a static cover into a seamless looping video — the format streaming platforms use for animated covers — by animating your layers with motion presets and exporting MP4/WebM.
An AI Music Assistant That Hands You Editable Parts, Not a Finished Track
Most AI music tools spit out a locked audio file. Airess — the assistant built into Onomo's browser DAW — generates editable MIDI, drum patterns, presets, and FX chains straight into your project, so you stay the producer.
How to Generate Album Cover Art with AI (and Actually Make It Good)
An AI prompt gets you 80% of a cover and 0% of a design. Here's how to generate cover art with AI in your browser — then turn it into a finished, professional cover with type, layers, and the right export sizes.