The upcoming action MMO will have the most sophisticated in-game music creation tools ever seen

"The music studio in APB lets you create two things: songs and themes," Stuart Ross, Senior Sound Designer said on the latest APB podcast. "Themes are short five-second pieces of music that are applied to your character and played back in-game, and songs are longer pieces of music that you can export from the music tool into your track list - then you can play them back in your car."

The level of control enables players to create a range of complex music, and works much like professional software. "The music tool itself is based on real music editors, so if you're already familiar with these things you should be ready to go," Ross explained.

The music tool gives players just as much control as the character customisation options that have already been demoed for the game. As well as plenty of cops-and-robbers type action APB will enable players to create in-game wealth with their own brands as a tattoo artist, fashion designer, vehicle painter or musician. Way back at last year's Develop Realtime Worlds' Dave Jones demonstrated the musical themes, which can play everytime you kill an enemy...

[via APB vodcast]