Budding Musicians who want to have ago at song writing, remixing or even music video creation but don’t have the software to do it or maybe the skills well now alls you need is a web browser and some imagination , but maybe not alot, when using these websites. In fact, to get started, you often don’t even need to know how to play an instrument let alone any music theory.
Community sites like Jamglue, Splice and SingShot are combining
social networking with innovative tools that let users create, share
and remix each other’s songs inside a web browser.
They use Interactive software like Flash and Ajax that give’s the web’s artistic amateurs a stage on which play about and hone there skills.
The user experience at 
a social networking site for amateur sound artists, is centered arounda simple audio mixer that can be used to build full songs from basic components. Users within the Jamglue community provide the raw
materials — drum loops, vocal snippets, piano arpeggios, bass riffs
and atmospheric textures are uploaded to the site and stored in a
shared library.
It’s usually the more musically-inclined users who take it upon
themselves to upload the basic sonic elements for everyone to use.
However, Jamglue’s Flash-powered mixer is so simple and easy to control
that even the least musical of souls can cull together loops and sounds
from the site’s database and build something resembling a song.
In less than 20 minutes you can put a song together. The
site’s mixing interface is reminiscent of Apple’s GarageBand or
ProTools Lite, which are both designed for beginners. Jamglue is
slimmed down even more. When finished, you click on Save, and
Jamglue generates an MP3 for to download, share, post on your website
or take anywhere you want.
Jamglue offers several Creative Commons licenses for songs, sounds
and remixes created on the site. Once songs or remixes are complete,
other members can tag them, download them or re-arrange the basic
elements and add new sounds to make a whole new mix. That mix can then be shared and remixed ad infinitum.
Is another remix site offers a similar experienc
But with a few more feature, Splice’s mixer automatically syncs up loops for you, stretching or smooshing audio clips so the kick drums and bass grooves stay in timewith each other which Jamglues site doesn’t do for you.
These sites help release your creative side, but heres another one that you may find bit more intrusive to your ego.
The site, which is more a karaoke machine crossed with YouTube
set, allows users to record themselves singing along to popular tunes. .
SingShot has licensed more than 2,500 songs, including numbers from
the Beatles, Hank Williams and Kelly Clarkson. Members can rate each
other’s vocal performances and even respond with their own renditions.
Unlike Jamglue and Splice, which are free services, SingShot charges a
$10 monthly subscription fee
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Get similar services for video artists try
This site encourages its members to remix each other’s videos using a Flash-based video editor.
Eyespot, another video publishing startup, lets users edit together photos,
video clips and audio MP3s to create their own movies or music videos.
Go try these sites out and have some creative fun!
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2 Comments
November 17, 2006 at 8:07 am
I’ve used jumpcut and I was able to use photos.. Anyways, thanks for the advice! Bands need the help.
November 17, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Thats good to here.. yes we all need a little help from time to time and it is getting interesting what is popping up around the web to give us a leg up.