Lag is a problem with online jam sessions. Music requires some pretty precise timing, oftentimes. What does seem to be popular is people giving lessons over Skype, or similar.
No, that's not on my list of things to do.
Oh no I didn't mean you as in you, I meant you as in someone could. Yeah it would have to account for ping times to work properly, some kind of system to sync things up. Eh doing something like that is at minimum a year away from an attempt I've got enough things to focus on right now, but its going on my sites to create list. It would be hard but I don't think impossible.
I mean other folks have attempted online jam sessions and not had good results.
Even with minimal lag, it will make it exceedingly difficult.
The lag between my headphones and what's introduced by the recording software was problematic, as an example. That's a very, very trivial amount of time - but the negative impact is audible. It was quite a feat to reduce it and required some pretty bizarre steps and fashioning a special cord to reduce it to a manageable level, or to where it's no longer audible to a casual listener.
I'm not sure it'll ever reach the point where it's truly realistic. Online 'jam' sessions are usually someone recording a track and another person adding their part over it - and then passing the file around until everyone has had their turn.
Well it could be something as simple as a site that makes passing that file around and adding to it simple, or someone could come up with an entirely new way to do it, I would have to believe you could do it somehow, I could be entirely wrong I’m open to that possibility but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try, I’ve tried lots of ideas that it turned out I was wrong about but I wouldn’t know that for sure unless I tried. Some times I even end up thinking up something new and crazy no one has tried before.
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