[LAU] Best collaboration software...

Bent Bisballe Nyeng deva at aasimon.org
Mon Apr 6 18:46:24 CEST 2020


On 04/03/20 11:52, Will Godfrey wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 11:38:02 +0200
> Giso Grimm <gg3137 at vegri.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 03.04.20 10:27, rosea.grammostola wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/3/20 9:43 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:  
>>>> I'm sure there are many other workflows and related
>>>> platforms/software... :-)  
>>>
>>> On GNU/Linux is it worth to mention that the Non-Session-Manager [1]
>>> saves all your settings in one folder, which makes it more easy to share
>>> session between Linuxmusicians, might help when you use the same
>>> software (Kxstudio for instance).
>>>
>>> Netjack [2] comes to mind. Ardour [3] is crossplatform.  
>>
>> last week we successfully tried zita-njbridge to get a high quality
>> audio link between Norway and Germany. No audible dropouts, however, the
>> round trip latency without the sound cards 72 ms (measured with jdelay),
>> which was too much for a satisfactory jam session. We used the default
>> settings of zita-njbridge, no buffer tweaking, 24 bits/sample, 2
>> channels. On both ends we have a rather good internet connection.
> 
> Interesting and rather impressive!
> 
> I have a suggestion. Have one person sending a 'host' track to the other
> players, with an agreed pattern of 'slots' each player would solo. The players
> hear both the host track and their own work, but only send back their overlay.
> 
> These incoming tracks are recorded by the host separately, who can then make
> individual latency adjustments to get them all in sync.
> 
> It does of course miss out on the immediacy of a real jam session.
> 

I can highly recommend Jamulus for online jamming sessions.
It is Qt based ui, cross-platform, open source and the linux backend is
implemented with jack.
Audio is transported with the opus codec with very high quality and down
to 5ms latency.
Jack buffer size of 128 is working the best and make sure to have direct
monitoring of your own end so you do not have the latency on you own
instrument - which is really annoying. And also make sure to set up a
talk-back microphone to get the optimal experience. it does come with a
chat interface but nothing beats being able to talk to each other
between songs.

I have set up a local server and played with my own band in that way and
it worked almost as good as being in the rehearsal room with them.
A bonus is that the server can capture all the seperate streams in wav
files and chain them together in a reaper session file (I know, not
Ardour :( ... but at least it is there) so you can do a rough mix of the
session afterward.

Cheers // Bent


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