15 Mar
2021
15 Mar
'21
8:47 p.m.
Brandon Hale <bthaleproductions(a)gmail.com> writes:
I have setup Jamulus servers at my institution, and I
think it is one
of the best for users of all operating systems. It is simple to setup
and get running, and has features like automatic recording of sessions
(it creates a DAW project file with stems!) It also gives users
control of personal mixes, which is a unique feature. It has decently
low latency and doesn't do any audio ducking like zoom does. Just make
sure users use headphones so they don't feedback. I have even gotten
good results on wifi (believe it or not)! Not to mention, it is easy
to compile on servers that don't have the recent version in their
repo.
It doesn't have video, but can be combined with something like
zoom. That is complicated, and doesn't work well with Windows, since
Jamulus needs Asio, and that takes over all audio on the system. I
don't know how zoom reacts to that, but that may take some additional
testing with Windows users.
It seems to be fairly common among Jamulus users to run a muted instance
of Jitsi (<https://meet.jit.si/whatever_you_want_to_call_your_room>) in
parallel. If your Internet connection is even slightly sketchy, that
may not be advisable regarding audio quality.
I held a (German) talk about Jamulus at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage
yesterday. Slides are linked from the talk site at
<https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2021/de/programm/beitrag/120>. The
video is not available yet from the conference site, but at least the
prerecorded bulk of the session (before the last slide and without Q&A)
can be seen at <https://youtu.be/Vn1f70IH-Es>.
And with echo compensation removing any feedback I did not realise that
the live part of the talk was too loud and clipped, and my session host
had such lousy audio equipment that he did not notice (or mind) either.
So I am not sure how bearable that part would be to listen to anyway.
Probably worth checking out the slides and if you think you can make
sense of those in spite of the language (or cannot make sense of those
in spite of the language), viewing the video might help.
--
David Kastrup