Online jamming
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Posted on Jan 05, 2013 11:03 am
skeg0
www.dorian-music.co.uk
Member Since: Apr 04, 2008
Has anyone tried online jamming recently? I'm thinking about trying to practice with my band on occasions over the Internet. It would be fantastic without the hour drive between us.
I know there was a thread a few years ago on here but now that Internet should be better etc and software improved, it might be more viable?
I have fibre optic so 40+Mbps where as the others have 15 and 5mbps.
Has anyone tried it/used it recently?
Cheers!
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TheTincanbugsloppy dice, drinks twiceMember
Since: Aug 05, 2003
Jan 07, 2013 07:37 am I dont know anything about this - I heard that people were doing this via midi signals sent to a central server, a few years back, but never heard anything more about it. What software/site are you considering? I wonder how much audio latency there would be with a scheme like that.
Jan 07, 2013 07:50 am I would hate it, personally...I can record my parts by myself in a lonely room, but "jamming" would lose all mojo being over the intertubes...for me personally anyway.
BeerHunterwww.TheLondonProject.caMember
Since: Feb 07, 2005
Jan 07, 2013 02:25 pm I would separate the video from the audio if possible. I had thought about using the My XBox Kinect for video and using my land line phone for the audio. That is as far as I got though. We have VoIP phones here at work that sound crystal clear. If I can tap into the headset I would probably end up with pretty good sound.
....I think - lol
skeg0www.dorian-music.co.ukMember
Since: Apr 04, 2008
Jan 07, 2013 03:38 pm I'm going to try some open source software called llcon. You make one computer a server and make sure the ports are opened on the router then others can connect via the IP address. I think latency of 50ms is normal so we will need to see. We aren't located too far from each other (there are 3 of us in total) and we are about 30 and 50 miles apart. I think lots of people that use it aim to jam across the world so I'm hoping this will be different!
There are some other options - ejamming which is one of the bigger ones and have been around for a while and ninjam but I figured this would be better as I can make fibre optic connection act as a server and have no other traffic running.
Will give the other guys a mixer and mic so they can plugin their guitars and communicate via the mic. You can choose on each client whether to use mono or stereo, you can turn down the different volumes of people to get your own mix and you can play around with the quality in case there are delays.
Sounds pretty good and would be awesome if it worked but maybe 50ms is perhaps a little too annoying for a well practiced, fairly tight band!
BeerHunterwww.TheLondonProject.caMember
Since: Feb 07, 2005
Jan 07, 2013 06:39 pm llcon looks pretty cool. I just happen to be building up a server and this would be a great project for it. It is a brand new machine so hopefully it will be up to the task
BeerHunterwww.TheLondonProject.caMember
Since: Feb 07, 2005
Jan 07, 2013 06:43 pm Quote:
The llcon software is designed to support stereo inputs for the following purpose: Use a stereo audio input signal where one channel is connected to the instrument and the other channel is connected to a microphone signal. On the microphone channel an optional reverberation effect can be applied.
Will have to experiment with this part a bit. I would want to feed a backtrack (drums) through this. Seems like I would run my mixer sends to it.
