[News] Ninjam, le skype des musiciens

Citation :
NINJAM is a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his liking.
NINJAM uses compressed audio which allows it to work with any instrument or combination of instruments. You can sing, play a real piano, play a real saxophone, play a real guitar with whatever effects and guitar amplifier you want, anything. If your computer can record it, then you can jam with it (as opposed to MIDI-only systems that automatically preclude any kind of natural audio collaboration1).

Since the inherent latency of the Internet prevents true realtime synchronization of the jam2, and playing with latency is weird (and often uncomfortable), NINJAM provides a solution by making latency (and the weirdness) much longer.

Latency in Ninjam is measured in measures, and that's what makes it interesting.

The Ninjam client records and streams synchronized intervals of music between participants. Just as the interval finishes recording, it begins playing on everyone else's client. So when you play through an interval, you're playing along with the previous interval of everybody else, and they're playing along with your previous interval. If this sounds pretty bizarre, it sort of is, until you get used to it, then it becomes pretty natural.

Although it has many flexible and powerful features, NINJAM is designed with an emphasis on musical experimentation, rather than production.

(NINJAM might stand for Novel Interval-based Network Jamming Architecture for Music[ians].)

How does NINJAM work?
NINJAM uses OGG Vorbis audio compression to compress audio, then streams it to a NINJAM server, which can then stream it to the other people in your jam. This architecture requires a server with adequate bandwidth, but has no firewall or NAT issues. OGG Vorbis is utilized for its great low bitrate characteristics and performance.
NINJAM can also save all of the original uncompressed source material, for doing full quality remixes after the fact.

Citation : si le logiciel continue de se développer la latence devreait réduire.

Citation : Peut-être qu'avec une mesure "à vide" (et non pas avide) pour lancer le truc, tout le monde se retrouve sur la même ligne temporelle ....? Donc, les impros seraient synchro