“Indaba Music’s DAW allows our growing community of more than 200,000 artists to create music in an increasingly more efficient and dynamic way,” said Dan Zaccagnino, co-CEO of Indaba Music. “With this new tool musicians can work on a song from any computer, recording high-quality audio, mixing and editing, using non-destructive effects, and tapping into a huge pool of loops and audio clips that are pre-licensed for their use under Creative Commons.”

Indaba Music’s selective redesign and updated professional membership tiers make the site increasingly more accessible for its geographically diverse, highly-engaged community of musicians. The new membership tiers include: a free account, a Pro account for $5.00 per month and a Platinum account for $25.00 per month. These distinctions provide musicians with increased access to important features including a professional clips library with high-quality loops, real-time non-destructive effects, and an online workspace for songs in progress.

“Sun is excited that Indaba Music has chosen to build their Session Console 2.0 digital audio workstation on the JavaFX platform to support musical collaborations across their global community,” said Octavian Tanase, senior director, Java Platform Group at Sun. “The Session Console 2.0 is a great example of how JavaFX enables music enthusiasts to easily work with native device capabilities, like recording and manipulating music files and powers rich, multimedia applications that demand fast performance.”

This new application breaks the historic precedent of how music is made online. No longer do artists need to purchase and install expensive recording software and upload tracks to the internet before working with them online. The Session Console 2.0 enables musicians to record studio-quality audio directly to Indaba Music.

The remix contest gives the Indaba Music community access to the stems for “My Brain is Working Overtime” off of the album, “Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.” Submissions will be accepted until August 4, voting end August 14, and winners will be announced on August 24. The first place winner will receive a one of a kind, custom designed Epiphone G-400 along with other prizes.

About Indaba Music

Indaba Music offers the leading suite of online tools enabling artists all over the world to create music together online. Members can connect with an international community of musicians to create online recording sessions – editing and mixing tracks recorded in different parts of the world using its online DAW. Indaba Music continues to add valuable services and is becoming an integrated platform from which musicians can manage multiple aspects of their digital lives. For more:

About Sun's JavaFX Platform

JavaFX is the best way to create expressive, feature-rich content across mobile devices, desktops, and browsers. Building on the Java Platform, JavaFX delivers a compelling mix of ubiquity, capability, expressiveness and performance. Sun's JavaFX platform opens a vast global market for developers and content authors who want to deploy secure and immersive content, services and experiences across all the screens of their customers' lives.