Jochem Paap, aka Speedy J, wants to make an album that represents not just him, but the global techno community. He’s using SoundCloud to create a new global techno project, and he wants you to contribute. He’s ask you to sen him a cool loop, sample, bassline, sound effect to him via his SoundCloud dropbox.… Read More Take Part In A Global Electronic Music Collaboration
A couple of days ago, I mentioned that I’m checking out SoundCloud – a new music sharing site specifically for musicians. It’s a site that lets you upload your tracks and then share them via websites, blogs, email, Digg, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. I wanted to learn a bit more about how it works and… Read More Music From Synthtopia Readers
Music sharing startup SoundCloud has added the a new feature that lets you “tweet” the tracks that you share. When you tweet them, your tracks are posted straight to Twitter, a microblogging site. Tracks are tweeted from the share-box above each track: Click here to see how it looks on Twitter.
Bojam is a new site – not officially released yet – that tries to bring the open-source approach to music: Bojam is an online music collaboration service connecting musicians to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music. Mass collaboration has been utilized in text (Wikipedia) and software (Firefox). Bojam does so with… Read More New Site Bojam Like Wikipedia For Music
Karma-Lab has updated its site, and added the Karma-Lab Wiki, which aims to build a library of useful “how to” information for working with the various keyboards, music workstations and software incorporating KARMA technology. It features articles covering all aspects of the products that incorporate KARMA (such as Korg Keyboards like the M3, OASYS, Karma… Read More Karma-Lab Updates Site, Adds Karma-Lab Wiki
Remember the Beavis Board DIY effect pedal kit? The OpenStomp Coyote-1 is a similarly open-ended effects processor, except that it’s for digital effects. Coyote-1 is an open source audio effects processor, built for guitar players. But there’s no law that says guitar players get to have all the fun! With the Coyote-1, users can develop… Read More OpenStomp Coyote-1 Is An Open Source Effects Processor
Peter Gabriel has announced the launch of The Filter, a personalized discovery engine for digital entertainment content. Its aim is to make sense of the overwhelming amount of digital content available on the web by filtering out the stuff that an individual probably wouldn’t be interested in and filtering in the stuff they would be… Read More Peter Gabriel Launches The Filter Music Discovery Site
Rifflet is a new site you can have some fun with those songs that you’ve never gotten around to finishing. The concept involves the uploading of something called a “rifflet,” which is a piece of a song – like a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat, or something else altogether. Each rifflet must… Read More New Site Wants The Songs You Never Finished
Tonium, the makers of the Pacemaker pocket-sized DJ system, has announced the launch of Pacemaker.net, a social networking site for Pacemaker users. The Pacemaker music community allows members to upload and legally share the mixes of their music, created by them using a Pacemaker or the free Pacemaker Editor software. According to Tonium, it’s the… Read More Tonium Intros Community Site For Pacemaker Users
Over at the Yahoo’s blog, they’re highlighting a group that’s using Yahoo Live, a new video chat system, as a tool for creating music online: Just finished a great recording session with the Trackrunners – we spent about 3 hours with them live, giving them ideas and feedback as they composed a new track. The… Read More Using Yahoo! Live For Making Music
