eJamming Audiio P2P Music Collaboration Beta 14 Is Out
P2P is visibility gaining access to lots of sectors. While music industry goes on with its complaining about the phenomenon, p2p is being put to some good use musically speaking by people whom we can only call visionary. At CES 2008, Intel's Paul Otellini used eJamming Audiio, BigStage, and the band Smashmouth to let everyone see how a several of artists situated in different parts of the world could be brought together through P2P and actually play live using a virtual environment.
BetaNews reports that they tested the eJamming Audiio software back in 2008 and confirmed that while it prove useful at recording and working with others in a VoIP-enhanced environment, it failed to show functionality and accuracy when instruments were played live: “In using MIDI drums, a guitar and bass in three different locations in the United States, each musician found they had to get accustomed to latency in their own signal, and then the latency of the others as well. In the end, it was nearly impossible to play live,” the site says.
As of yesterday, things may tell a different with the launching of Beta 14 which presents a close to zero latency "Jam Mode" as the default. According to the development team a user's own instrument will now play back with nearly no delay, and audio streams from other musicians will be synched together to simplify live jamming.
The site is currently taking new beta testers, and if you want to give it a try you need to download the eJamming P2P client and then…just start playing.
