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Indaba Music Console Like A Web-Based Garageband

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Are you all ready for this?

Indaba has introduced a new JavaFX-powered digital audio workstation, Music Console, that’s like GarageBand for the Web.

Music Console lets you record and mix high-quality uncompressed audio directly with your browser and work both on and offline. The console features advanced web-based mixing and editing tools, real-time effects, and loops.

Features include:

  • Recording: High-quality audio recording directly to Indaba
  • Clips Library: Choose from hundreds of Creative Commons-licensed loops
  • Real-Time Effects: Chorus, reverb, EQ, flanger, and more!
  • Online/Offline Use: Use the console anytime, anywhere!

This is brand-spanking new, and Indaba is pushing the envelope of what you can do via the Web. So, they’re asking people to give the new Music Console a try and to give them feedback.

The site and service is free, with two paid versions available also: Pro ($5/month), and Platinum ($25/month).

If you give Music Console a try, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Tweet A Sound: Share Synth Sounds Via Tweeter

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Tweet A Sound is a Mac desktop application that uses Twitter as a platform for sharing sonic tweets.

Pushing the idea of “social sound design”, Tweet A Sound allows you to design a sound and share it in a community of like-minded folks. It is an opportunity for fun interaction with sound.

Here is an introductory video showing you how to get started with Tweet A Sound.

If you give this try, leave a comment with your thoughts!

NIN iPhone App Demo With Trent Reznor & Rob Sheridan

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Walkthrough of the new Nine Inch Nails iPhone application with Trent Reznor, NIN art director Rob Sheridan, and special guest Kevin Rose of Digg.

The application is a state-of-the-art example of how musicians can use new media to interact with their fans.

NIN: Access is a free app for iPhone and iPod touch that gives you mobile access to nin.com’s media and community features, as well as a new “Nearby” feature that lets you exchange messages and photos with other fans in your area.

NIN: Access will be released in April 2009. More info: http://access.nin.com

SoundCloud Looking For Mac, iPhone Developers

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SoundCloud has announced that it’s looking for iPhone and Mac OS X developers:

We’re really excited about the release of our brand new Cocoa/iPhone development kit, built by Ullrich and Gernot! This means you can really easily integrate SoundCloud in any Cocoa-based (iPhone 2.0+, Mac OS X 10.5+) application, complete with oAuth-based authentication, asynchronous requests and uploads with a progressbar. We have only begun to imagine what kind of cool audio sharing apps could be built using this little toolbox…

So if you’re an iPhone-hacker, don’t hesitate to download the source and start hacking!

We’ve also taken the opportunity to upgrade pretty much all of our API pages. We’ve moved all code and documentation over to Github, so it’s easier than ever to browse and fork it. Since long time there’s already a complete Python wrapper for our API, and now it’s been better documented as well.

This could lead to some interesting new iPhone apps!

Minimum Noise Brings “Crowdsourcing” To Music Production

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Minimum Noise is a startup site that promises to bring the idea of “crowdsourcing”  to music. 

The idea of crowdsourcing is that the more people you have access to, the better the results can be. Whether this is a valid concept or will work for music remains to be seen. 

In this day and age, most computer musicians are interested in doing as much as they can themselves. Sites like Minimum Noise, though, promise to let you connect with musicians around the world, so if you need a dumbek solo for a soundtrack you’re working on, you’ve got access to a dumbek player from wherever you may be. 

Here’s how Minimum Noise works:

  • A project is created, describing the kind of production requested and the prize offered.
  • Musicians audition for the project with sound bites or examples of previous work.
  • A winner is chosen and audio and money are exchanged.

While the site is launching, you can try it out for free. Details at the site.

What do you think – is there a future in “crowdsourcing” music?

via Rekkerd

Mixxx Looking For Community Coordinator

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The creators of Mixxx – the free, open source DJ software – are looking for a community coordinator:

Would you like volunteer with the project, but don’t know how to code?

If so, we might have found the role for you – We are officially looking for a Mixxx Community Coordinator.

As the Mixxx community grows, we’re finding that we’re spending more and more time on administrative tasks and less time writing code. We’ve got cool ideas for stuff to do with our community, but we don’t have time to do them and keep pushing development forwards at the same time. A community coordinator will help fill a growing niche in our development team and will be a great benefit to the project.

Our community coordinator will have many responsibilities, including moderating the forums, writing blog and news posts, and will also hold the cherished title of Mixxx Chocolatier. We’re looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic individual with a passion for DJing (and excellent English language skills) to fill this position. Any experience with forums and HTML is a plus.

This looks like it could be a fun opportunity for the right person to get involved in an open source project.

RiffWorks Updated to Version 2.5

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Sonoma Wire Works has released a free update for RiffWorks Standard recording software (Windows & Mac).

With RiffWorks Standard you can record ideas, create complete songs with drums and effects, collaborate online with musicians around the world, post tunes to the RiffWorld.com online community and now export to any DAW for editing and mastering.

Here’s what’s new in Riffworks Standard v2.5: Continue reading →

200 Digital Music Startups of 2008

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There’s a comprehensive list of 200 digital music startups from 2008 at Music:)ally. 

I was amazed at the fact that there were that many digital music startups, and almost as amazed that so many of them were so forgettable. 

The most forgettable may be Total Pop Star - an online talent contest where users uploaded their performance videos then got rated by judges, including – wait for it – Joey Lawrence and Debbie Gibson.

The least accurately named may be SimplifyMedia - a site that promises to simplify your media by letting you stream your music to up to 30 friends over a Wi-Fi or 3G connection from your iPhone. Or your computer. If you can get that **** set up.

From the land of what the hell were they thinking comes Guitarati - a site that’s all about music discovery through colors.

The most interesting startups on the list are SoundCloud, which lets you easily share audio files, and SongBird, the music-focused web browser.

Check out the full list here.

Did you get excited about any of the new music sites this year?