eJamming Releases Online Music Collaboration Service
3/28/07 – The long-awaited release of eJamming AUDiiO was announced today, the first real-time Internet collaboration technology and service for musicians. The company, based both locally in Valley Village and in Florida, also debuted the eJamming AUDiiO portal, which the company says will become a resource-rich community where musicians can connect, showcase their music, find teachers or students, and buy and sell gear.
eJamming, which debuted at the DEMO 07 conference, says it has solved the latency issues that have hampered collaborative services of this type in the past. The company says it uses “proprietary data-thinning schemes and patented Internet delay-management algorithms” to achieve the real-time synchrony among musicians in different locations that is critical for a satisfying online collaboration.
eJamming AUDiiO hopes to provide a virtual practice and recording studio for musicians and singers worldwide though which they can write, rehearse, record, learn and play together over the Internet.
Founders Gail Kantor and Alan Glueckman, both entertainment industry veterans, say that they see the service enabling connections between new and old songwriting partners, connections between bands and new members, players finding bands, singers finding arrangers, music students finding and collaborating with teachers, and even online rehearsals.
According to Kantor and Glueckman, the genesis of eJamming was their attempt to develop an interactive music education curriculum to connect kids over the Internet. When they discovered a technology for Internet collaboration did not exist, Kantor and Gluekman say they brought in technologist Bill Redmann, who built the prototype for a real-time, music-connectivity software program that they patented several years ago.
eJamming says its AUDiiO software also includes a host of features designed to enhance the online collaborative experience such as CD-quality recording capability, searchable profiles that allow musicians to identify others with like interests, JamVite instant messaging so musicians can invite one another to jam, an automated calendar for scheduling sessions and full MIDI capability.
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Comments
Two years ago I was looking for something like this. I found one company that was doing it, but it looks like they had money problems or something. At that time, I met another musician online and we have made several songs since. I can't wait to get home and try it out.
Posted by: Electric J | April 29, 2007 06:36 PM