Singing with a friend around the world has never been easier, thanks to a new app launching Wednesday called Sing!
Created by Smule, the app allows you to sing a song from its extensive library of tracks, and then invite friends to join in and harmonize with your musical stylings or turn your solo act into a duet.
“We believe all humans are musical,” Prerna Gupta, CEO of Khush (which was recently acquired by Smule), told Mashable.
Music was one of the first forms of communication between two people, but as time has progressed it has been abandoned for cell phones, emails, and tweeting.
“We’ve been able to use technology—the thing that took it away – to bring it back,” Gupta says. “Music is a new form of social communication in modern world that no one has done.”
Not just for singing with people you know, Sing! can also be used to connect with strangers. An on-screen globe lets you see where other singers are located.
A virtually infinite number of people can ultimately be added onto a track. After the 2011 earthquake in Japan, for instance, thousands of Smule users used the company’s Glee karaoke app to sing “Lean on Me.”
For now, all of the songs you sing have to be from the app’s growing library of tracks; however, the company is also looking at other ways you might be able to bring content into the app.
Smule is also launching its own network of virtual musicians, allowing you to build a profile, get fans, and create music collaboratively. The network will be built into all of Smule’s apps going forward –allowing you to continue a relationship you make in one app into another — and may potentially be added to previous apps on a case-by-case basis.
SEE ALSO: Headphones for Cats? They Cost $1,000The company’s ultimate goal is to create things that use technology to connect people through music. “We don’t want people to say, ‘That’s cool technology,’” says Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule.”We want them to say, ‘That’s cool.’”
Sing! Is available Thursday for the iPhone and will later be released for the iPad and Android.
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Purchases are made not by price and instead by chance. Buying a location involves spinning a virtual slot machine. Each spin costs a certain amount of coins. Stopping on a “Win” square will win you the location from its current owner; stopping on a “Lose” means you’ll have to try again.
The odds of winning a spin and the cost of a spin vary depending on the property in question and what its current owner has done to it.
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