Collaborative music platform Endlesss has announced a new type of online space for music communities to co-create and publish music. Clubs provide chat based community spaces like Discord with features tailored to musicians. These features include live collaboration, large file sharing and publishing tools.
Musicians are struggling to compete against the algorithm to get heard. Clubs offer an intimate antidote to the algorithm. They’re a place for like-minded people to create, share and listen to music together.
Endlesss founder and CEO Tim Exile said:
“The number of people making music is growing. We’ve talked to a lot of these new creators. Many have aspirations to join music’s Premier League. But they first want to become part of a community of people who care about them. They want to develop skills, make friends and get heard.
Music-makers all have to compete for attention on the same distribution platforms. This results in bad outcomes for everyone but the very best. We’re excited to provide community-owned places for music-makers of all levels to go deep with their people.”
Each Club features a private area and a public area. Members collaborate and communicate in the private area. The public area is where the community showcases their best work. Hosts decide whether Club entry is open to all, by application or by invitation.
The private area features multiple channels created by Club hosts. Members interact, share files and create music in each channel with a chat interface. Club hosts create and distribute roles. Roles control which members can access each channel.
Club channels enable collaborative music creation through sending music messages. Music messages contain up to 8 looped layers of audio and metadata like tempo, key and the authors of each layer. Members can add to or remix previous music messages. Members create music messages using a variety of input methods. These include sounds in the Endlesss app, recording live inputs or using VST, AU or AUv3 plugins. Members can import and export audio between a Club channel and DAWs like Ableton or FL Studio.
A Club’s public area is where members publish their best work for non-members to discover and listen.
Clubs build on Endlesss’s realtime multiplayer music creation apps. These are available today on iOS, MacOS, Windows and web.
Clubs will become available through a closed beta in late 2023, ahead of a public roll-out in early 2024. Clubs will be accessible through the Endlesss apps. Access to the closed beta will be on a first come first served basis through the waitlist.
