Jam with people via MIDI over Internet...

Anyone already doing this? Seems so crazy obvious I'm a bit surprized everyone everyone hasn't done this already. I never have. I just did a quick Google search & found this:

https://jammr.net

anyone know anything about that or other options?

Couldn't we Skype with our DAW recording and plug the Skype feed directly into an input jack on our interface and record as we go?

Sure, what I'm thinkin' of is different. I just got the Jupiter 8 from Arturia & Jim & I were shooting the shit about it & I got to thinkin'...

If we can play video games with people all over the world no problem, why the fuck can't I say, "invite" Jim into a joint session so he could trigger, etc. whatever I've got loaded up? MIDI is tiny by comparison!

It kept nagging at me cuz it seemed like something obvious. Like imagine a session like this-

Jim, you, & I decide we wanna jam together at X o'clock. Without getting too technical- why couldn't one of us "invite" the rest in & we all play in unison? I'm thinking of a super basic structure for the sake of this example-like say me laying down a beat & building on it, you're knocking out a baseline & Jim is playing a lead part- & we could all record it so we could build on it later.

So in theory, Jim could be say- triggering all the MIDI on an instance I have up of the Jupiter 8, I could be triggering your drum samples/sampler, & you could be playing Jim's synths for the bass parts.

There is a lot of other considerations of course-like who's clock is the master, DAW compatability, & getting everything to sync- but if people can play Call Of Duty how could this be that hard? Like the manufacturer would handle the heavy lifting & the user tweaks it for a sessions needs.

All I could come up with was it could seriously shake up the plugin market.

TELL ME THAT WOULDN'T BE AWESOME!

This needs to happen.

this is really interesting and I downloaded it.... I like that I can you use my MIDI controller on VSTs (including other people's VSTs) or even put a microphone in front of one of my amplifiers and play the guitar or use a hardware synth or whatever. I'm actually taking my son to the beach for the week with my parents and my uncle's family, but after that we should mess around with this.

Dood. Right? How is this not already everywhere?

maybe its not well implemented yet, but we are tying this in July man, it is so happenin'!

Really!? Awesome! I'll maybe get a chance to look at it tomorrow or Tuesday.

Hell yeah!

I'm excited because I am in a real guitar mood and it emans I can also jam on guitar AND I don't have to use mdoellers I can throw up a microphone and playone of my amps which deserve to get turned on more

Wait, what? You can? That's more than I even was expecting! You can include real intrumenation & even the chatecter of your choice of mics & placement?!

Is it just me or is next level shit?

How is this not something everyone knows about & uses?!

Even allows vocals from what I saw. The only concern I have (and I know it is primitive thinking) is that all of your sessions... be they public or private are stated as being recorded and available for download...

What costs are here, and because we are then downloading from this site, are we, in effect, agreeing that whatever we supply to this platform becomes THEIR intellectual property, and we become end product users of THEIR songs?

Suspicions abound, and I know my musical playing and opinions are not high theft risk, But i still happily entertain the ideal that MY ideas are MINE and I share with who i choose.

I will look into it a bit further, but this got the ol' spider senses tingling...

that doesn't sound primitive.... that's worrisome

Woah, that's creapy. I've been thinking more broadly on the concept cuz I haven't had anytime where I could actually look at that site/service.

I was at the beach w/ some engineer buddies (not muical) so I was picking brains on this idea until I just had to do a quick google search. I figured SOMEONE must have sorted it out-

That was just one of the results.

Yer spidey senses are on point, I deffinately wanna dig in & get the skinny.

Tomorrow I'll get the time to dig in & finally help figure this or something else like it out.

Sorry gang, I took some last minute bookings so I have't had any time to dig further yet. Been all tracking and fucking file management here. I'm obsessed tho so it's gonna get done.

Jim-did you do an actual install already? Like a demo or somethin'?

I Dled an isntaller but didn't install it yet, I will this weekend

Sweet, I'm psyched to catch up with ya when you do. 1 day of tracking turned into 3- always a good thing but now I'm way behind on researching this. Now the parents are in town so this weekend is just about when I'll be able to dig back into this stuff.

gotta make time for your folks, especially at our age.... god knows how long you have with them

Okay, so i dunno if you guys had the same result but outside of that one I linked in the 1st post I didn't see much else out there that looked legit...and even that one doesn't sound super legit...

Good news tho-

I was at a show last night and I ran into my computer tech- he built my calender/promo/press for booking shows/tours/studio stuff but he can write just about any code you can think of. Anyway-

I talked to him about building something like what we've been talkin' about & he's into it. He's got a full plate at the moment but it's on the calender so to speak.

So I'm collecting my wish lists for this idea to present to him when we get to it & if you guys have any thoughts- wish lists or concerns I should present him with drop them here.

We might just be able to will this into reality yet...

It should allow and incorporate live instrumentation, it should recognise anything fed through the interface but my midi controller keys are usb into pc direct...