Re: ejamming

[Brian Good <bsgood@adelphia.net>]

Daryl Shawn wrote:
> Speaking as a very frequent Ninjam user, this is certainly interesting 
> but I'm somewhat skeptical of the article/marketing. They put down 
> Ninjam for its delay, yet this app also adds a delay. And it says 
> peer-to-peer, yet you need to buy a ($15/month) subscription, so you're 
> not avoiding their servers altogether. I think Ninjam, with no need for 
> cash to change hands and open source code, has a more promising life 
> (Os, for example, created a plug-in on his own from the code making it 
> much more useful for laptop peeps).


And this is marvelous:

"you hear your instrument when you receive the notes played by the other 
musicians in your jam."


How *do* they manage to keep the sounds from my saxes from reaching my 
ears until the remote contributions arrive? Sounds like Nobel-level 
work for sure.

Oh, wait. This is MIDI-only; no audio. Read the instrument requirements. 
  Even better, it requires General MIDI. So all of you who have spent 
years or decades developing a unique tonal palette...surprise! You've 
been mapped to whatever GM instruments your bandmates are using.

Think I'll give this one a pass.

> I myself love this:
> 
> *"In Sync. In Real Time.* Or in as close to real time as the laws of 
> physics allow."
> 
> those pesky laws of physics...

<Jon Stewart voice>

"Damn you, causality!  Damn you!"

</Jon Stewart voice>


Brian