As if the Internet wasn't awesome already, check this out:
We've all shared photos online, songs, movies, and spent countless hours rampaging through online theaters of destruction, but what about music? No, I mean actual music. Not sharing songs or music videos, I mean actually creating music...online.
Well that's apparently what's happening on sites such as eJamming.com and JamGlue.com, and let me tell you, it's pretty cool.
JamGlue and eJamming are sites centered around virtual live recording. There's a few differences between sites, but all cool. Here's how JamGlue works:
You login to JamGlue, and with your microphone or computer hookup, you jam. Whether you're a guitar player, keyboard, bass, drums, singer, mouth-harp, whatever. Let's say you play a mean guitar, and you just get on a record whatever comes into your head.
That's not the cool part; we've been plagued by noises from random anonymous people for years. Instead, other people on JamGlue can see your recording, and add to it.
So let's say someone comes along who can play bass, and they like your guitar tune. They record their playin' and mix it with yours. Then comes along someone who thinks up some cool lyrics for your tune. They mix it in.
Before you know it, several completely random people who've never met each other before, have created a song together. Is that cool or what?
It gets cooler.
eJamming takes the process a step further, allowing people to record in real time, together, live! So you start playing yer guitar, someone hears you and joins in with their bass, then someone's singing...next thing you know you have your own recording session.
So we've got virtual gaming, virtual office space, virtual second lives, and now virtual music. The only thing left is virtual woohoo, but we'll probably have to wait for the software compatibility issues to be resolved.
Rock on!
We've all shared photos online, songs, movies, and spent countless hours rampaging through online theaters of destruction, but what about music? No, I mean actual music. Not sharing songs or music videos, I mean actually creating music...online.
Well that's apparently what's happening on sites such as eJamming.com and JamGlue.com, and let me tell you, it's pretty cool.
JamGlue and eJamming are sites centered around virtual live recording. There's a few differences between sites, but all cool. Here's how JamGlue works:
You login to JamGlue, and with your microphone or computer hookup, you jam. Whether you're a guitar player, keyboard, bass, drums, singer, mouth-harp, whatever. Let's say you play a mean guitar, and you just get on a record whatever comes into your head.
That's not the cool part; we've been plagued by noises from random anonymous people for years. Instead, other people on JamGlue can see your recording, and add to it.
So let's say someone comes along who can play bass, and they like your guitar tune. They record their playin' and mix it with yours. Then comes along someone who thinks up some cool lyrics for your tune. They mix it in.
Before you know it, several completely random people who've never met each other before, have created a song together. Is that cool or what?
It gets cooler.
eJamming takes the process a step further, allowing people to record in real time, together, live! So you start playing yer guitar, someone hears you and joins in with their bass, then someone's singing...next thing you know you have your own recording session.
So we've got virtual gaming, virtual office space, virtual second lives, and now virtual music. The only thing left is virtual woohoo, but we'll probably have to wait for the software compatibility issues to be resolved.
Rock on!
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