Here’s the timeline for my final project:
Week 6
Thought for possibilities
Week 7
Final idea
Week 8
Execution
Week 9
Execution
Week 10
Execution
Week 11
Updating blog
Week 12
Finish blog and project
Timeline
Thoughts about ‘Online Jamming’ project
Hellow World,
For the past couple of weeks, I have been having the thoughts of utilising online jamming and presenting it as a project.
I have tried several programmes and softwares from Ninjam, Jam2Jam, Skype and eJamming.
Ninjam’s website was not available for several days and there were several speculations that the site is closed.
Jam2Jam is an Australian based company which promotes easy online music composition. The thing that I do not like about Jam2Jam is that instead of jamming with real instruments, they use midi functions instead. Jam2Jam is also more focused to school children so that they can enjoy the sense of ‘jamming’ without needing the ability to master any instruments or music theory.
I also tried Skype but there seems to be a huge problem with time lag. Jamming through Skype can never be really ‘real-time’ as there are split seconds of time lag in between the process of recording one person’s activity to the screening at the other end of the communication. People also have different internet speed and that makes it even harder to rely on Skype for jamming as the time lag may worsen.
eJamming would be the most developed programme for online jamming however it’s not very popular yet and that undermines the number of users online and available to having a jam. I personally have not tried doing jamming via eJamming though I already have it installed. I am still having problem in using the software and again, perhaps only about 7 persons were online at the time I was and that makes communication hard.
Any ideas in ways to do online jamming better?
