[rdtennent]

"No dedicated hardware"; but for best results you'll need a wired ethernet connection, wired headphones, a good microphone and an audio interface, and on Windows an ASIO driver.

"For the lowest possible latency, FarPlay establishes peer-to-peer connections between users": Except when the peers are on different ISP networks and the packets are forced to travel to some distant node, introducing latency at every node along the way. In my experience with this issue using Jamulus, having a server in the cloud at a suitable location reduces latency. Minimizing "the distance travelled" isn't important if there are few nodes introducing latency. The speed of light along wires is orders of magnitude faster than the speed of sound through air.

"the faster your connection, the better your results will be"; Misleading; it's latency not bandwidth that's critical and a "fast" connection normally refers to bandwidth.

Anyone interested in audio over the internet should check out Jamulus at https://jamulus.io/

[WatchDog]

Are there any products in this space using "smart routing" services like argo, or AWS global accelerator?

I've seen really impressive latency improvements, just for HTTP based services, but this is the kind of use case where I would think they would really shine.

[hansel_der]

> it's latency not bandwidth that's critical and a "fast" connection normally refers to bandwidth.

the lack of distinction in this regard is part of the problem.

i.e. an airplane is faster (latency) than a containership, althou the ship has higher bandwidth (capacity).

[bcook]

The better word is "quicker". Faster = bandwidth. Quicker = latency. 56k connections can have good latency, depending on packet size.

[Wowfunhappy]

I don't think that helps much, fast and quick are interchangeable in common parlance.

[CapsAdmin]

this has been the main reason as to why i don't understand the hype behind 5g on phones

[tekstar]

Agree on jamulus. I re-joined my highschool band during the pandemic, despite us all living in different cities. Jamulus jams were an important part of us getting back together, along with zoom calls and passing recordings back and forth. Best thing that happened for me out of the pandemic.

[gavinray]

If anyone is looking for realtime collaboration tools, there's a free (proprietary) one that has live video + audio chat and a shared project workspace for building songs.

https://beatconnect.com/

The homepage does a pretty poor job of showing what it is, so it'll probably make more sense if you just see it:

https://youtu.be/r9gyup4nzoQ?t=14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44n_8oXJYD0