Filed under: Audio, Fun, Internet, Web services, Time-Wasters
Compose mediocre music without taking classes
by Brad Linder Aug 28th 2007 at 11:00AM
JamStudio is an online music generating application. Just select a couple of chords, choose your instruments, and JamStudio will do the rest. There's no need to worry that your chords will sound bad together, because the application only presents you with chords in your chosen key.
Overall, it's awfully limiting for anyone who actually knows what they're doing. You can't play individual notes, for example. But for the musically challenged, or for someone who just wants their PC to play a chord progression so they can pull out the old banjo and jam along, JamStudio can provide hours (Okay, minutes) of fun.
The basic application is free to use, but it looks like the company plans to offer a paid service that will give you more virtual instruments and effects to play around with, as well as some tools to teach yourself real music theory. Or at least some guitar chords).
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Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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Roger William Turner said 11:17AM on 8-28-2007
Shame on you, promoting banjo playing when you KNOW it will get people killed!
http://www.SanCairoDiCopenhagen.com/tbpmd.html
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