[sferoze]

Even when jamming in my personal studio anything above 5ms latency on my electric drum set can be noticed. I have to lower the IO buffer size to about 64 samples to get above 5ms latency.

I would love to be able to jam with friends over long distances. For this to actually be enjoyable without frustration the latency would have to be no more than 5-10ms.

I wonder how much latency a local telephone call would use? Then maybe it is possible to set something up where you jam over the telephone line and each musician can hear each other just fine.

[e12e]

I wonder if this would change if you were never allowed to play an instrument with less than 100ms lag (ie: from the time you started practising)?

[I realize that such instruments as table tops and cutlery are readily available, but I wonder if restricting regular practice to an electronic instrument with artificial lag would counter this. Possibly the music would only be enjoyable to others who practised similarly..]

[rhubarbquid]

The sound quality of land line voice connections is terrible for anything but speech. IIRC it's something like 8 bit 3 KHz

[jchrisa]

One way to do this is to jam based on a loop, so everyone can be off by one bar. I think there are some services that do this.

[turnip1979]

Specific pointers? I'm curious how this would work in practice.