+1 please!
On 10/5/2021 4:32 PM, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> i'd love to see some detail around:
>
> - the launch-scripts that you've set up for folks, and
>
> - the way you're doing local mixing.
>
> both of those sound like great innovations.
>
> mike
>
>> On Oct 5, 2021, at 2:54 PM, 'TJGigs' via jacktrip-users
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>> My thoughts on this and switching to Jacktrip and running my own hub
>> server.
>> I'm not sure the scale of what you want to achieve... but I did not
>> have to go to nearly the extent as it seems you describe.
>> Me and my band mates used Jamkazam with pretty good results over the
>> past year or so, especially with JK's ongoing focus on continuous SW
>> improvement. But we still had latency and connection inconstancy and
>> sound quality issue at time.
>> I decided to research Jacktrip after watching Christian McBride's NPR
>> video explaining that's what he used. Much research, trial and error
>> later this is what I settled on. It ended up being very simple and
>> works great.
>>
>> * Ruled out any remote server HR (aws etc) and/or Jacktrip server
>> subscription services Latency is just too great. Even for servers
>> here in LA. From the Jamkazam latency experience we wanted to get
>> as close to or under 20ms as possible
>> * I thought I would need dedicated HW just for the hub mode (-S) so
>> set up my windows desktop with that and my windows laptop as local
>> client (-C) _BUT _that was total over kill. I just needed to run
>> hub mode on my laptop (Intel I5)
>> * We are running 2 mac clients, 2 windows clients and me as Jacktrip
>> admin . The sound quality is much better and more consistent than
>> JamKazam and the latency is pretty much undetectable
>> * I spent a lot of time with all the Jacktrip parms (q, r,
>> --bufstrategy, etc ) to get the best results. We did
>> metronomes/sync count tests with each participate to help
>> determine latency impacts from all the settings.
>> * Then standardized every one's config/setup on jackd, jacktrip,
>> qjackctl and session launch with scripts.
>> * Then implemented independent channel mixing for each participant
>> to control locally on their client. (Windows using voicementer,
>> Mac with blackhole and local AWS)
>> * Got the patch bay to work automatically with qjacktrl (requires
>> some manual xml tweaks) So you don't even have to reconnect all
>> the spaghetti (we call it) in the connect window of qjacktrl
>> * Now we just all click 1 shortcut icon (me first because I run in
>> server mode) to start the session. We are all within 20 miles but
>> the bass player 70 miles. Imperceptible latency.
>> * Low latency audio interface, wired Ethernet, and fast ISP upload
>> speed, and physical distance are they key to any successful online
>> playing. More so than what software (jacktrip, Jamkazam,
>> soundjack, sonobus, etc) you are using
>>
>> I did all this with no expense for me or bandmates and we have at
>> least 2 standing sessions a week. It just sounds like we are all to
>> together with headphones in a recording studio,
>> I can post details (screen shots, scripts etc) if you are interested
>> T
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