Comments on: Real-time online jamming .. with disclaimers http://www.hometracked.com/2007/01/31/real-time-online-jamming/ Home recording and project studio blog Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:48:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: des http://www.hometracked.com/2007/01/31/real-time-online-jamming/#comment-730 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:15:38 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2007/01/31/real-time-online-jamming/#comment-730 D'oh, you're right poorsod. Thanks. I corrected the mistake above. I think I'd confused Nimjam with the original version of eJamming. D'oh, you're right poorsod. Thanks. I corrected the mistake above.

I think I'd confused Nimjam with the original version of eJamming.

]]> by: poorsod http://www.hometracked.com/2007/01/31/real-time-online-jamming/#comment-729 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:56:10 +0000 http://www.hometracked.com/2007/01/31/real-time-online-jamming/#comment-729 Just a heads-up: Ninjam is not MIDI-only. Quite the opposite; it's audio-only. The thing that sets it apart is the bizarre take on latency - instead of dealing with latencies of a few milliseconds (or a few seconds), the stream is delayed by the much more musical time of 4 (or any other number) bars. It's weird at best, but not as weird as jamming with latencies of a 30ms, I can tell you. It's not a substitute for going to one another's houses and jamming (less fun too), but you don't have to deal with heavy gear (and computers for the likes of me) and mistakes move across the group differently. So it's not a substitute to real-life jamming; more a complement to it. Oh, it turns out Ninjam has now been integrated into Reaper (shareware $40 DAW, similar feel to Sonar) so one can play MIDI, synthesize it and stream that. Just a heads-up: Ninjam is not MIDI-only. Quite the opposite; it's audio-only. The thing that sets it apart is the bizarre take on latency - instead of dealing with latencies of a few milliseconds (or a few seconds), the stream is delayed by the much more musical time of 4 (or any other number) bars.
It's weird at best, but not as weird as jamming with latencies of a 30ms, I can tell you. It's not a substitute for going to one another's houses and jamming (less fun too), but you don't have to deal with heavy gear (and computers for the likes of me) and mistakes move across the group differently.
So it's not a substitute to real-life jamming; more a complement to it.

Oh, it turns out Ninjam has now been integrated into Reaper (shareware $40 DAW, similar feel to Sonar) so one can play MIDI, synthesize it and stream that.

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