Oh, and speaking of latency for real time playing...I saw one solution which
approached it in a cool way. Basically, what if you can INCREASE the
latency and synchronize it, so that it's exactly 1-2 measures behind, for
example. The only drawback to that would be things like key changes, time
signature changes, etc probably don't work too well.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Simon Dorfman <simon@yamlike.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Online music collaboration sounds like an interesting problem. If you want
> real-time collaboration, I bet latency is a deal-breaker. But a version
> control kind of system for working in iterations seems like it would be
> quite do-able. I bet either Tae Hong or one of his grad students would know
> of something if it exists. If you come tonight, be sure to ask them. And
> if you can't make it, I can try to get you in touch with them. I met his
> two grad students at the Feb. 2600 meeting. I'm blanking on their names at
> the moment...
>
> Simon
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Chris Jones <techmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That actually sounds incredibly cool. I might try to go. A friend and I
>> are actually about halfway done recording an album. We're doing industrial
>> music, and I'm pretty much the technology guru of our group, and I'm trying
>> to teach him as much as I can to get him closer to my level, like he doesn't
>> know anything about MIDI, and I'm trying to be as MIDI geared as possible.
>> I've built a big DAW setup, running Logic Studio on both a Mac Pro 8 core
>> and a Macbook Pro, and we've got a decent collection of synths between the
>> two of us, I've got a Nord Lead 2x, a Doepfer modular, an MFB drum machine,
>> a Yamaha CS1x, and he's got a Roland Fantom X6 and a bunch of circuit bent
>> toys...
>>
>> An idea that we have been working on lately, is we're trying to find a
>> good way to do online collaboration. It has gotten to be a real pain for me
>> to pack up all my gear and bring it to his place, or vice versa, and it's
>> really hampering our progress. If we could somehow jam together online, it
>> would make our lives a lot easier. We've found a couple of things, but it
>> seems like they want you to use their screwy web software as your DAW, and I
>> don't think MIDI is supported. It's more of a multitrack player that allows
>> you to import and export WAV files or something I believe. He found it and
>> I'm going to check it out, I know there are a few other things out there,
>> but maybe some of the people in NOLUG or at that 2600 thing might know a
>> better solution? I think for something like that, I'd prefer if there was
>> something like SVN for music production... I just haven't found anything
>> like that yet, but I bet something like that exists.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> P.S.- anyone interested in music & technology? Come to the 2600 meeting
>>> tonight. Tae Hong Park will be giving a presentation on Tulane's Music
>>> Science and Technology program including what they've been cooking up lately
>>> in their research. Location details here: http://no.la2600.com/
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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-- Chris Jones http://www.doomsdaytechnologies.com ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 03/06/09
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