jamming on line

[oldmanblue]

Talking to a friend he asked if i knew of an app that woil allow 2or more people to jam together on line ,skpe could not hear each other also long delay tried one called jamkazam but could not get it to work,any ideas .Cheera

[pwblues]

Still trying to get my head round it, but what I've found out so far is that there's less latency/lag if:

1)your computer is plugged into the router via an ethernet cable, rather than using wifi

2) your mic or instrument is connected to your computer via a USB audio interface, like the type used for home recording.

Hope that helps!

Pete

[pwblues]

Ps Jamkazam is a bit of a faff to set up, but seems to work ok once you get it going. There are others available but I haven't tried them yet so can't comment.

[oldmanblue]

cheers for the help guys

[Michael Messer]

I think that in the current situation someone will come up with a new app that enables musicians to play together online and to be able to share it as it happens on social media. It's got to happen.

To quote the wonderful late Ian Dury..."There ain't half been some clever bastards"

Shine On
Michael

[Stevie]

Latency is the big enchillada. You can overcome that to some extent by optimising your hardware. A good example is the so-called Firewire. The latest flavours of USB transfer data faster than Firewire, but USB places an overhead on the CPU. Although slower than the more recent USBs, once a connection is set up in Firewire, it's like a no-holds barred data conduit (like turning on a tap?) that doesn't negotiate the rapids of competing for CPU attention. That said, you cannot do anything about latency beyond your router. A WAN might encompass many hops on the way to the remote and ideally similarly optimised user hardware at the other end of the chain. I used to use a synchronised wristwatch to pitch my snipe bids on eBay until they incorporated live countdowns, but I still give it 4 or 5 seconds to allow for network latencies. (Actually, eBay's bidding servers are a lot quicker than their listing and search facilities but that's a digression too far.)

So, along comes a new "bells and whistles" app and hopefully it doesn't discriminate on platform as well as hardware terms? That's a very tall order indeed in my view.

Caveat emptor; I am far from an expert and the majority on here possess far greater hands-on experience than me. Also, I have long built and repaired PCs and have performed open heart surgery on "smart" 'phones (not for the feint of heart!) but I'd be the first to 'fess up that I struggle with getting my head around using programmes / programs, so take all this as $0.02 / YMMV etc.

The age of those StarTrek Communicators is not quite here yet, but what seemed unreal 50 years ago is pretty much here right now.

e&oe ...

[Michael Messer]

Zoom and House Party are two apps that have almost cracked it. They are both amazing for groups of people meeting and socialising online. We only need someone to push that idea a little further and it will work. As with all these things, the latency issue will be resolved. With a decent connection and device, the quality of live broadcasts on social media is amazing. This was inconceivable a couple of years ago.

Ian was right.... "There ain't half been some clever bastards"

Shine On
Michael

[Pickers Ditch]

Need Ian (Gawd bless 'im) to have a word with Open Reach about the connection down our lane.

... maybe Billericay Dickie can - he's not that far away as the crow flies.