Make a moodboard on the canvas
A free board for a song's ideas. Draw, write, drop images and play music links on it.
The Canvas is a free board for a song or a release. Free, no account needed.
Build the board
- Open canvas.aden.space.
- Draw, add shapes, arrows and sticky text from the toolbar.
- Copy any image and press ⌘V (Ctrl+V), or drag it onto the board.
- Paste a Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Deezer or YouTube link. It becomes a player you can press play on.
- Paste any other link to show the page on the board.
- Drop or paste an audio file. It becomes a card you can play, with notes pinned to moments in the song. Press Bring into Aden on the card to make it a track, notes included.
The board stays in your browser, songs included, so it is still there when you come back. Nothing is uploaded.
Keep more than one board
- Press the board's name next to Canvas.
- Choose New board to start another, or pick one from the list to switch to it. Type to search them.
- Type a new name in the box at the top to rename the board you're on.
- Point at a board and press the bin to delete it. Undo in the message brings it back.
All your boards stay in this browser. Another browser or computer starts empty, so save a board as a file to take it with you.
Press the fullscreen button next to Save to give the board the whole screen. Press it again, or Esc, to go back.
Save it and open it again
- Press Save to download it as a canvas file.
- Press Open and pick the file to bring it back, on any computer, or drop the file on the board.
- With Aden desktop installed, double-click the file to open the board in Aden. Your changes save back to the file.
Opening a file replaces the board. Undo in the message brings the old one back.
Work on it with your team
Drawing together needs an Aden account. Multiplayer on the canvas takes you there.
Open the canvas file on a track's, album's or team's Inspiration canvas, or on a studio session's ideas board. Choose ..., then Open canvas file. There everyone works on it together, live.
Audio cards stay on the free canvas. Bring each song into Aden from its card first.