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Re: ejamming
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