JAM
with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online
If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, **w’s
your chance to be a rock star.
JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables
friends in different locations to
Play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers. ** matter what
your level of talent—from daydreaming air guitarist to
music pro—you can JAM together in real time over the web.
When you enter the site, you can choose from a selection of 19 different instruments, from acoustic and bass guitars to drum kits and keyboards. Once you get playing, you can switch instruments as often and as many times as you like.
In the default “easy mode” you can experiment by clicking individual strings, drum pads or keys, or you can
Play around
with the four different autoplay functions and let the machines do the work. Switch to “pro mode” to
Play any instrument using
your keyboard.
Invite up to three
friends in different locations to join
your JAM via the sharing buttons on the site. Here’s “Keyboard Cat” jamming
with his friends:
JAM
with Chrome is a Chrome Experiment that uses the latest modern web tech**logies, including HTML5 features such as the Web Audio API, Websockets, Canvas and CSS3. For more detailed information on the tech**logies used, check out the
tech**logy link in the app.
Go on, get the band together at
jamwithchrome.com.
Posted by Emma Turpin, Google Creative Lab
(Cross-posted from the
Chrome Blog)