Unfortunately for me I work all freakin day and tak e classes several nights during the week in addition to having a wife and kids.

Living in the suburbs ther aren’t as many people around that play and even fewer places to get together.

I agree playing with people in the same room is ideal, but if you can’t be with the ones you jam with then jam with the ones your with?

Oh that is bad. Sorry about that.

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Also, your notion of there not being any perceptable nor affecting latency is utter.complete.bullshit.

Admittedly, NINJAM is different.
It *lengthens* latency, quite nicely in fact, to make things work.

Also, I can pick up my guitar and play.
You must have a midi guitar or sumtin.

Regarding latency, it’s quite possible to have a low-latency conversation over the net, isn’t it? I can picture an app that would let the musicians hear the other musicians at a reduced bandwidth in realtime, but as soon as they stop, the full-bandwidth audio is sent to all participants. Forget about MIDI, it’s no good for anything but General MIDI sounds (the listener would not hear the same sounds you’re playing unless he/she had the same instrument/patch to play the MIDI through), it needs to be done with audio data. It’ll happen, it’s just a matter of when and by whom. Personally I’m looking forward to it.

I had a blast! I even bussed it to Reason and we collaborated on patches. Next I’m going to experiment with bussing it to the sequencer in my ProTools HD for easier editing.

Of course you’re not going to play Giant Steps at breakneck speeds . . .

However, it’s a heck of a lot faster than telephone delays AND I HAD FUN!!! That was worth the price of admission.

In a week I’m writing with someone who is local so the initial delays should be significantly less . . . I’ll let you know.

“MIDI data means no latency”

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This is totally incorrect and indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of latency.

You can definitely have a lower latency if you’re transfering smaller packets of data, but there is always still latency.

I’m with all of the skeptics here – great idea, but the internet is still not ready for it. Latency is absolutely crucial to responsive and accurate musical timing, there is no “fudging” it.

It took sound card manufacturers YEARS to solve the latency problem, and all that did was minimize the delay between the time you hit a key in your own house and hear the sound on your own speakers.

It will be years if not decades before this idea makes a real impact on music and jamming. Until I’m able to hit a key in my house on the west coast and instantly create sound in your house on the west coast, this is just a gimmick.

You can get a USB-MIDI interface for about $30 from any computer store.

And for the record, you can make your drumkits and guitars/bass guitars MIDI capable with the use of drum triggers or MIDI pickups.

They’re kidding, right? As any musician would know, any artificial delay in the sounding of the instrument will seriously compromise the musician’s timing and destroy the possibility of having a tight-sounding groove.

50-90ms latency is way too much. Try running your guitar or piano through a 50 ms delay effect and see just how much of a delay it really is. It might not see like a lot, but it’s an eternity in music time.

In my experience delay must be kept under 15ms at the maximum.