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Friday, December 31, 2010
Beat Maker Software
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
NINJAM - Novel Intervallic Network Jamming Architecture for Music - Main
NINJAM is a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X and Windows.
NINJAM uses compressed audio which allows it to work with any instrument or combination of instruments. You can sing, play a real piano, play a real saxophone, play a real guitar with whatever effects and guitar amplifier you want, anything. If your computer can record it, then you can jam with it (as opposed to MIDI-only systems that automatically preclude any kind of natural audio collaboration1).
Since the inherent latency of the Internet prevents true realtime synchronization of the jam2, and playing with latency is weird (and often uncomfortable), NINJAM provides a solution by making latency (and the weirdness) much longer.
Latency in NINJAM is measured in measures, and that's what makes it interesting.
The NINJAM client records and streams synchronized intervals of music between participants. Just as the interval finishes recording, it begins playing on everyone else's client. So when you play through an interval, you're playing along with the previous interval of everybody else, and they're playing along with your previous interval. If this sounds pretty bizarre, it sort of is, until you get used to it, then it becomes pretty natural. In many ways, it can be more forgiving than a normal jam, because mistakes propagate differently.
Part tool, part toy, NINJAM is designed with an emphasis on musical experimentation and expression.Gootar Guitar Chords Generator Finder with Sound, 86 million chords, Vertical Fretboard
This program does not use a data base of chords, everything is created on the fly.
You will be able to generate complete unique, never seen or heard-before chords."
Auto-Transposer
This tool transposes guitar chord progression or string of notes to all 12 keys with one simple click. You can use it to transpose songs to your vocal range or simply to enhance your music theory studies.