Making music together over the internet.

[mindless]

I don't think that this will ever be possible

EVER??? Like NEVER??? Surely you jest?

So, until someone discovers hyperspace, super luminal travel, wormholes, subspace radio, or something...

Oh. So it's possible then. I read something once about teleportation experiments conducted by the bassist from Iron Butterfly where they proved that wormholes exist and can be controlled. Ever hear of that?

[Rajah]

The fastest form of data transmission to my imaginary friend in Japan is transoceanic fiber optic cable.

The speed of light in a fiber is slower than that in a vacuum, but let's take the speed of light in vacuum: 670,616,629.38 miles per hour, and the circumference of the Earth: 24,901 miles -- half of which is the distance to the furthest possible point from me -- 12,450 miles. It therefore takes the fastest possible signal 0.13367 seconds to get to my friend. A little over a tenth of a second. While that's OK for a telephone conversation, it's too long for musical sync. (And his signal has to get back to me, so thats another tenth of a second to wait!)

Very enlightening

[g_worroll]

It could work with a metronome server. Each of you logs in to the same server, and on login the software pings back and forth to determine latency to each node, and delays sending the clicks to the faster server until they'd get there within a couple milliseconds of the slower.

Then have a similar thing to sync up audio playback.

This wouldn't be nearly as good as playing in a studio together, but if something like this were implemented, it might get latency that is usefully small.

[AdmiralQuality]

Yes but you would be playing to a click, not to each other. No point then, might as well just play to a recording.

[Lord Snarebottom]

I read something once about teleportation experiments conducted by the bassist from Iron Butterfly where they proved that wormholes exist and can be controlled. Ever hear of that?

In a gadda da vida baby!!! OMG, I can't believe you mentioned these guys.

[WoJ]

hmm i just had a quick jam on ninjam, its so much fun!

Neat little program.

WoJ