The October 2007 issue of Electronic Musician recently ran a feature on online recording collaboration Services in an article titled, “The World is your Work Station” by Marty Cutler. Collaboration utilities have been popping up left and right via wikis, and other Web 2.0 projects, but this is the first I’ve heard of this trend moving into recording methods. Most of these services run off the premise that you yourself have recording capabilities at home, or have access to a recording studio. In the article the author examines several different services available for the recording musician that enable them to collaborate with others and share files. These are the services that were examined in the article.

digitalmusician.net :

• Membership: Free, and Pro-membership fee from about $13.50
• Online Storage: YES
• Session Communication: Audiovisual chat via dmr, dml, and dmm
• Optional Open Collaboration: YES

eJamming

• Membership: Free during beta, 9.95 per month
• Online Storage: no
• Session Communication: chat via eJamming audio
• Optional Open Collaboration: YES

eSession

• Membership: FREE
• Online Storage: 250 MB Free to 150 GIG paid
• Session Communication:Chat and blogging through song page, audiovisial chat via Virtual Glass software
• Optional Open Collaboration: no

Indaba Music >

• Membership:Free, or Pro-membership $10 month
• Online Storage: 250 Mb free; Pro: 10 Gig
• Session Communication: messaging and blogging
• Optional Open Collaboration: yes

i-Studio.net

• Membership: n/a
• Online Storage: yes
• Session Communication: no
• Optional Open Collaboration: no

Session Players

• Membership:$25 a year
• Online Storage: yes
• Session Communication: Audiovisual chat via dmr, dml software
• Optional Open Collaboration: no