Come Collaborate with HP2, Internet 3.0 Style

My blogs are so awesome they make sound! Anyways, just wanted to spill some thoughts about an online collaboration/social media site that I picked up on. Thounds.com (get it, thought + sound) is a relatively young platform for throwing all the musical ideas in your head on the wall that is the internets, and seeing what sticks. Any registered user (and from what I've seen it's a much more international audience than other similar sites like Indaba.com) can listen to your idea, post a new riff or line and then share your collaboration with everyone else. There is even integrated soundcloud integration when you are satisfied with the final version.

Now, to be fair, the downsides. Flash doesn't play nice with internal digital routing like JackOSX. I don't know if there is an easier PC work around, but when I wanted to sync up the audio stems from Reason I experienced some tone altering clipping as well as having to start and stop the tracks by hand...err by mouse. I know it's a lot to ask of a Flash based recorder, but having midi integration into my DAW (Cubase, btw) of choice would make the syncing and recording ONE BILLION times easier. The groove in my example is just off because of the manual start/stopping and that makes my ear sad.

I know this is asking for a lot, but some type of sequencer would be great as well. That way you could take the ideas and iterations that people have layered on top of your original idea and expand them into a whole song. I think the beauty of Thounds is that it is so simple, and literally anyone with a laptop and a built in mic can jam with anyone on the internet. For more complex collaboration, Indaba seems the way to go.

So if you have any ideas to throw on top of my 70s sample driven jam, layer it on and leave me a comment. If you have any ideas you would like to hear HP2 on, leave a comment. If Bhakti decides that Thounds is the preferred medium for writing our next album, he can leave a comment. Maybe crowd sourcing HP2 songs would be the best way to break Country Dave's writer's block. Hm...