Friday, February 2, 2007

Musicians playing together online

A new software package at eJamming, which will be released in March, promises to offer real time audio collaboration for musicians. It allows musicians to play together at a distance either using MIDI or more traditional instruments. The software uses P2P (peer to peer) technology to overcome the issue of latency and synchronization of the audio from different players.

The software could prove promising for doing music lessons online or performing pieces with performers in multiple locations. Some work has been done in this area on Internet2, the super-fast new Internet backbone at major research institutions, but this is the first application for real-time musical collaboration for the desktop.

article at Wired.com

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