Jam sessions via the Internet
The Internet has long novel forms of direct communication - from simple writing an e-mail through to multimedia video chat. Alexander Carot, a professor of media computer science at the University of Anhalt in Köthen and an enthusiastic bass player, has developed a software that allows a musical communication over the network to be possible: the program Sound Jack allowed to play music together via the Internet, Technology Review reports in its online edition.
The tool where Carot already working since the year 2005, with jam sessions allow musicians who are 1000 miles apart - it is like the software from the regularly occurring latency and network problems. All participants will receive the total signal played back so that you can make even recorded together.
To use the software, a user can only be via microphone or musical instrument amplifiers connect to the computer. In live mode, several modes are possible: either all audio signals sent to a central server in Frankfurt or to use a direct connection. If the delay is too large, the same can customize any way by a modified game, says Carot. "The tolerance for latency that might occur can vary from player to player."
Alternatively, there are several setting of stream parameters with which the audio is - packet sizes and buffer can be adjusted as well as the behavior at short outliers, the dropouts. Jack Sound is available as a free application for Windows and Mac systems, on a version of the Linux operating system works media computer Carot yet.
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