Online band rehearsal

Teetonetal

Anyone got any experience with setting up a virtual band rehearsal?

Can't meet up due to covid 19 so thinking of other ways. Assume latency on zoom is ok for one on one lessons but not good enough for a jam.

spark240

Probably got no chance at the moment...broadband is already under pressure for the amount of use right now, you could try Hangouts or Zoom

stickyfiddle

Yeah, latency is going to be too high to make music live. It's the sort of thing you could use for discussing & planning arrangements, and agreeing who is doing what parts in vocal harmonies, if not actually making music together.

Teetonetal

Have come across sofa session and jam app... Will give it a go

Flanging_Fred

I was thinking along the same lines as the O.P.  I’m going to really miss having rehearsals each week.  

CeeJay

Have you tried JamKazam? Latency seems ok within the UK or near continent. Anything further afield is useless.
Be nice to set up a FB jam.

TheBigDipper

A mate of mine tried a 4-way session on Thirsday using Zoom and said it was unusable - too much latency, sounded like everyone was using a delay pedal. 

Danny1969

CeeJay said:

Have you tried JamKazam? Latency seems ok within the UK or near continent. Anything further afield is useless.
Be nice to set up a FB jam.

Interesting device, just had a read through the site but it's $299 and every band member need one 

CeeJay

Danny1969 said:

CeeJay said:

Have you tried JamKazam? Latency seems ok within the UK or near continent. Anything further afield is useless.
Be nice to set up a FB jam.

Interesting device, just had a read through the site but it's $299 and every band member need one 

It's free sign up.

https://www.jamkazam.com/signup

Danny1969

CeeJay said:

Danny1969 said:

CeeJay said:

Have you tried JamKazam? Latency seems ok within the UK or near continent. Anything further afield is useless.
Be nice to set up a FB jam.

Interesting device, just had a read through the site but it's $299 and every band member need one 

It's free sign up.

https://www.jamkazam.com/signup

The website is but you need their low latency interface at $299 to rehearse with low latency  ... scroll down on this page 
https://www.jamkazam.com/

CeeJay

Danny1969 said:

CeeJay said:

Danny1969 said:

CeeJay said:

Have you tried JamKazam? Latency seems ok within the UK or near continent. Anything further afield is useless.
Be nice to set up a FB jam.

Interesting device, just had a read through the site but it's $299 and every band member need one 

It's free sign up.

https://www.jamkazam.com/signup

The website is but you need their low latency interface at $299 to rehearse with low latency  ... scroll down on this page 
https://www.jamkazam.com/

I'm using my Focusrite Scarlett with no issues. Latency is ok as long as I stick to UK based groups. I've even managed to jam with a drummer from Switzerland with no issues.  USA is a not starter.

Danny1969

Ok, I'll give it a go but I'm assuming your ethernet connected because even the wifi latency would generally be too high for most people 

CeeJay

Danny1969 said:

Ok, I'll give it a go but I'm assuming your ethernet connected because even the wifi latency would generally be too high for most people 

Oh yes, definitely hard wired connection. Wifi a non starter. You might as well give it a go for free. I don't reckon their interface is any better than a Focusrite or similar.

p90fool

We have satellite correspondent-like latency in some of our real rehearsals, not much point in adding to it! 

PolarityMan

Is jamkazam free form, or do you have 2 people playing against a synchronised backing track? I cant see how it would work personally my raw ping to google.co.uk is 25ms. Add 5ms for my interface. So assuming that its not peer to peer and goes via a central server that going to be around 60ms of perceived latency by the time the sound from someone else reaches you. 

That seem pretty unusable to me. Thats like a 32nd note at 120bpm.

octatonic

On a technical level it has been done, you need a very wide pipe.
University of West London did a multimedia WAN converged data project a while ago, using Dante AOIP tech.

In practice forget it, unless you want to spend 100k+.

camf

Anyone with any updates on this? Any success stories? I’m guessing that in real world terms it’s still a no go.