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ujam creates a variety of incredible sounding yet easy to use virtual instruments, designed to enhance the creative process and to make music creation faster, better and easier than ever. Our instruments are available for most major DAW's and plug-in formats including VST, AU, AAX and Reason Studios Rack Extension.

DEFY LIMITS

Produce Professional Tracks Without Playing an Instrument

Create great music with our virtual session musicians - the next best thing to being in a studio with real ones. Impressive results, inspiring process, and a focus on the only thing that matters: Your ideas.

GREAT RESULTS

Makes You Sound like the Real Thing

Whether you are a skilled musician or a complete novice, the ujam plug-in series Virtual Guitarist, Virtual Drummer, Virtual Bassist and Beatmaker can provide professional sounding and solid foundations on which to build and compose entire tracks with enough versatility to explore many musical genres & styles quickly and easily.

FRUSTRATION-FREE

Less Controls, More Control

Here's how ujam plug-ins are different: By design, you cannot get lost and every control will always do something that you can instantly hear and understand. Because we're musicians, too, and we know: It's supposed to feel like flow, not work.

OUR MISSION

Making Music Production Faster, Better, Easier

The story behind the creation of the ujam Virtual Guitarist series originates from the hugely successful Steinberg Virtual Guitarist released in 2002. The team behind that landmark release reunited and created ujam with a vision to develop great sounding and easy to use virtual instruments helping people to make music faster, better and easier than ever before.

We give you every instrument full version 30 days for free - no strings attached. Rediscover how easy and fun music making can be!

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ujam | Create Your Music Faster, Better and Easier

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ujam creates a variety of incredible sounding yet easy to use virtual instruments, designed to enhance the creative process and to make music creation faster, better and easier than ever. Our instruments are available for most major DAW's and plug-in formats including VST, AU, AAX and Reason Studios Rack Extension.

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Produce music online in your browser. Make beats, record & edit audio, and collaborate. Use 20,000+ loops & samples, virtual instruments, and effects.

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Your everywhere studio. Create and record easily with powerful tools and sounds, all in one place.

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Vocal & mixing tools

Reverb, Distortion, EQ, Delay, Compressor, and more.

Virtual instruments

Beatmaker, software synths, drum kits, and 808 with Glide sounds.

Royalty-free sounds

Thousands of loops, samples, one-shots, and sound effects.

Collaborative studio

Make music online anytime, with anyone, on any device.

Industry quality sounds, every 2 weeks

New and exclusive sound packs are dropped every two weeks from trending genres like Phonk, Drill, Lo-Fi, K-Pop, and more. Our sound library has up to 24,000+ loops and hundreds of presets, designed and mixed by professional producers.

Latest Soundtrap Originals

Explore more sound packs from your favorite genres

Collaborate with anyone, from anywhere

Create and collaborate with your bandmates, friends, or other musicians in real-time through video and chat, directly in the studio. Leave comments on your shared projects and let auto-save keep you in the creative flow.

Mix and master for a chart-ready sound

Finalize your song with our mixing and mastering tools, suitable for beginners and pros alike. From auto-mixing to EQs, compressors, and more - access all the tools you need to take your song to the top 50!

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Vocal tuning

Achieve pro-sounding vocals from every take with our pitch correction software.

Automation

Tweak the volume, pan, and use the filter sweep effect with this powerful audio editing tool.

Patterns beatmaker

Make your own beats with ease. Sequencing a unique beat for your next track has never been easier.

Plug and play

Connect your own microphone, guitar, or any other instrument.

*Access to Vocal tuning and Automation available on the Music Makers and Complete plans.

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Make music together online. Free instruments, loops, drum kits, and vocal tuner in one studio. Record, edit, mix, and master your audio, no downloads - sign up for free.

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Explore collections and stories from around the world with Google Arts & Culture.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 1200 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Explore all art movements on Google Arts & Culture.

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Artist Websites - Selected Top Artist Websites - FineArtStudioOnline (FASO)

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Artist Websites - Selected Top Artist Websites - FineArtStudioOnline (FASO)

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Capital Hill "The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify.

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My Yupik and Inuit students taught me traditional direct carving techniques in antler, ivory, and soapstone. We used the materials at hand to craft tools and we embellished them with the images of the animals around us.

× Upon Further Reflection

I began making art, and teaching, while serving in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at St. Mary's Mission, a native boarding school on Alaska's Yukon Delta. And while I credit my students with introducing me to direct carving, they probably had a bigger impact on shaping my approach to teaching.

Originally, my classroom responsibilities focused on teaching social studies classes-current events, world geography-and the Alaskan Native Land Claims Settlement Act. Without formal teacher training, my initial teaching largely mimicked the traditional ways I had been taught. The rows of desks were orderly and the content flowed from the teacher at the front of the room. Then, a staffing change added art teacher to my responsibilities. Comfortable with art history and working with my hands, but unfamiliar with studio art practices, I entered this classroom with more humility than my other social studies classes. Instead of beginning with a listing of my expectations, I asked the students what we should do. An older student said, "Lets carve," and proceeded to pull out files and rasps for himself. I pulled out files and rasps for the others. As he selected soapstone and began to carve, I helped others do the same. He lead, I facilitated, and the rest of the class eagerly joined in. The classroom environment was electrifying. While the room was big, all the students huddled together, shoulder to shoulder. As the soapstone flew and rocks became sculptures, the students openly discussed what they hoped to achieve and offered feedback and new found carving tips to each other. Out of this collaboration, community blossomed.

As the rhythm of the class developed I regularly found teachable moments and windows of opportunity to extend the learning. We found inspiration and guidance in books about other Eskimo carvers and carvers from other cultures. In the context of their work, I introduced the elements and principles of art. I would regularly brainstorm with individuals and small-groups ways of overcoming momentary hurdles. As they polished and shared their first simple sculptures, I challenged them to try another more sophisticated sculpture, this time with overlapping forms. Rather than being the sage on the stage, I learned the benefits of being a guide at the side. Years later, in working with Don Graves, Lucy Calkins, and Nancie Atwell, I learned that I had stumbled onto the workshop approach to teaching.

In a way, direct carving and workshop teaching have a lot in common. They both adopt a constructivist mindset that builds on established traits. They both emphasize being responsive and opportunistic as part of their process. And they both recognize that collaboration and dialogue are integral in realizing a transformative opportunity. While it is never wise to follow a metaphor too strictly, they can help ground and broaden your thinking, and in regards to this site, this is not a bad metaphor to reflect on.

× Teaching Opportunities

One way for students to reflect on the internalized values that shape their own aesthetic and approach to art is by exploring how other people's art manifest their cultural values.

Here are two sites that could support a discussion on indigenous art and the cultural values they reflect.

Both sites offer a consistent framework for exploring a culture and a rich array of artifacts and art that manifest these values.

You could apply the same framework to explore the students' own values.

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