It would be nice to have friends to jam with, the bummer on that one is I don't really have any friends I have devoted myself to work for so long I don't really know how to have friends, poal is the most hobby type thing I have done in over a decade really. I am doing this because I want to learn better how to do things that are not work, learn to do things for fun again. Life doesn't have to be all work I am pretty sure there is room there for fun, I'm pretty good at family or at least I would like to think I am. So I am picking this up as my first real hobby, I'm pretty sure it'll be fun who knows maybe along the way I'll find some people too jam with. Honestly now that I think about it that could be a good site to start, an online jam session website. You could probably develop hardware specific for it and set up virtual rooms for people to jam in. Well there I go again. Now I have to add another thing to my list of sites I want to create.
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.
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