This is a list of tools we recommend using for collaborating, presenting and selling your material.
It’s all tools by other service providers, in the future we hope to be able to develop more specialized tools, that support the Global Unit Members needs.
Bandcamp (present and sell your music, a free service!)
Dropbox (Present files, share files and folders, great for collaboration!)
Paypal (Easy to make an account, and receive money for work you have done for others, or to pay others for the service you have bought from them)
Blip.tv (Make your own web TV channel, even earn money if you assign to their ad system! + get your videos distributed to myspace, vimo, youtube automatically! )
Provector audio and video streaming (stream your live events to
Facebook (Good for viral marketing and more social communication with friends)
Twitter (Very for viral marketing and social communication with friends)
Issuu (Helps your make your own online magazine, or art catalogue or…)
OhmStudio An upcoming online music DAW for collaboration that looks pretty interesting.
Please send us feedback if you have other tools you would like to recommend.
You can either use our contact form, or if you are a member, become friends of the admin, and send us an internal message.
Here is an example of use use of Dropbox and PayPal in an “online studio session situation”:
A producer would like to find a musician from Africa playing a specific African instrument to have him playing on his next album or track. He use the Global Units artist database to find that specific instrument played by a musician from Africa. If the musician agrees, and they agree on a price, the producer sends him the track, via dropbox, in a low level 128kb mp3 format. The African musician, import it to his own DAW/Recording-System, or ask a studio help him do so. After recoding the instrument on a separate single track (While listening to original sound file), he sends the single track in 128kb mp3 to the producer + sends his Paypal account name for payment. After the producer have proved the track and made the payment to that account name, the musician, sends the single track once again, this time in a full high quality bit rate solution.
By the way, in dropbox you can also make shared folders, then you don’t need to send anything, just drag the file into the shared folder, and it will show up on your collaborators hard disk.