When I was a kid, I would go to my local music store and buy records by the dozen. It was a great way to get your fix of new music without having to leave your house. Now, as an adult, I’m not so sure that’s such a good idea. The internet has made it so easy for people to find new music at any time and anywhere they want. Plus, there are so many songs out there that you might not even know about. So what’s the point? Is it really worth spending your money on records when you can just listen to them online? I think not! Here are five reasons why you should give online music a try: 1) You can listen to any song you want without having to worry about buying a record; 2) You can download songs as soon as they’re released; 3) You don’t have to wait for the album or track release date; 4) There are always new songs being released; and 5) There is no need to buy anything else other than the audio files when you’re done listening.
To kick it off I thought I would start with Online Music Factory.
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Online Music Factory
I happened to Stumble Upon this cool online music application today. JamStudio.com is a very cool site where you can mix audio loops and not have the need to know how to read or write music. I have already wasted a few hours on this site. If you are a music fan you will have a great time with this. JamStudio allows you to save your music projects and even includes code to place a player on your MySpace page.
Choose the Key you want to play the song in. If you don’t know how chords sound don’t worry, you can experiment all you want!
This is the master library with various instruments which include guitar, bass, drums, piano, electric piano, organs, etc.
Update
This site has gone through several updates, both cosmetic and functional with the addition of more premium sound libraries and chord variations. This is the section where you arrange your song or “score”.
The above is achieved by selecting the chords in a specific key. The mixer section is where you can choose the type of instruments that will play and accompany the tune. Again, you don’t need to be a musical theory genius for arranging any song … just try out different chord progressions and tempo’s and see what happens!
I actually put up a short 4 chord progression in the public folder that you can listen to here. If you create an account you can go ahead and manipulate the song with the different loops as well. Once you make new songs you can email them to your friends. If you pay $10/month you get premium sound libraries and the ability to mix down all of your songs to MP3’s. Then you can add your created loops to programs like Acid, Sonar, Cakewalk, Audacity, etc… to create your ultimate songs!
Again to check out a quick loop I created click the image above and have fun! A basic membership is free!
