Re: Ninjam techbabble

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Hmm...I'm not sure what music you've heard, but as someone who uses 
Ninjam all the time, the only sync issue I've ever had to get adjusted 
to is the latency of my own audio running through the computer, into 
Ninjam, and back out through my headphones. Ninjam (not sure if it's the 
client or the server, though I believe the server) does introduce one 
measure of delay between participants, but unless you're trying to play 
an actual song arrangement, you won't notice that delay. You simply hear 
music coming from the other people and you play along, and even though 
what you're hearing is what the other people played a few seconds ago, 
you won't know. If you're doing beat-based stuff, the metronome works 
fine too, the server makes sure everyone hears the beat in sync.

Check out Rainer's "Quelques Papiers D'Abord" 
(http://www.moinlabs.de/i_kqpda.htm) which was recorded completely over 
the Net (I do play on this, so excuse a tad bit of self-promoting). 
Also, all of the Chinapainting stuff (even more self-promoting) that's 
been released so far was also recorded over Ninjam too.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

>> Am I missing something? I don't want to come off arrogant but when I 
>> listen to the examples of online jam sessions (Ninjam)  they sound 
>> horribly out of sink? Don't get me wrong. When I heard about 
>> the possibility to jam online with any one on planet Earth-via the 
>> internet- I was very excited indeed.  I was disappointed with the jam 
>> examples. Is that because the musicians are still learning how to 
>> play or because of latency problems?