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AW: about ninjam



It is...keep waiting for a recording of a ninjam jam I'm about to put 
online
which includes a tempo change which worked for some reason I do not
understand. 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: mark sottilaro [mailto:zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com] 
> Gesendet: Samstag, 15. April 2006 01:06
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Betreff: Re: about ninjam
> 
> Hm, I thought your tempo was kind of "locked" due to the 
> nature of Ninjam.  It works because the latency is extended 
> to a logical quantize point: a measure.  For it to work you'd 
> have to define the exact length of that measure and therefore 
> the bmp, no?  So why not be synced?  Being free is nice if 
> the people with you can react in real time.  If you're 
> listening to me a measure ago and I'm changing my tempo it's 
> going to be a car crash.  Of course, the musical version of a 
> car crash might be fun.
> 
> --- Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:
> 
> > For me, the most beneficial feature of Nijmam is that many 
> people can 
> > steam through the same server. That's a beautful thing.
> > Sure, you can sync, but
> > it's not in real time. You still have the time delay (it's just 
> > packaged up in a synced way), so the performance is not two or more 
> > people playing together in real-time in the strict sense of 
> the term, 
> > like what is the case when playing in person. So, if you 
> are fine with 
> > playing over someone's part that has been played 15-30 seconds 
> > beforehand (or whatever it happens to be), that's cool. I 
> guess if you 
> > are syncing local software, that is a different matter, but I 
> > personally dislike that sort of collaboration...I don't 
> like a machine 
> > correcting or defning my meter for me. It's annoying and 
> unnatural for 
> > me. I like to keep things freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
> > 
> > Kris
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andreas Wetterberg"
> > <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk>
> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: about ninjam
> > 
> > 
> > > You *can* choose to ignore the midi clock, but
> > then you lose the whole
> > > point of ninjam, namely that you can actually play
> > in sync with others
> > > online.
> > >
> > > For what it's worth we managed to keep two ableton
> > Live computer in sync
> > > over Ninjam for about an hour... a bit of nudging
> > here, a bit of fiddling
> > > there...
> > >
> > >
> > > Doug Cox wrote:
> > >> Kris - I saw your message on the Ninjam forums -
> > interested in hearing if
> > >> you ever managed to get Ninjam to run on your
> > hosted server.
> > >>
> > >> Also, have you had any luck with synch issues? It
> > seems like Ninjam
> > >> forces a BPM on you, and of course, without that
> > BPM being translated to
> > >> a MIDI clock or similar it seems like your loops
> > would eventually fall
> > >> out of synch with Ninjam. Or maybe you're just
> > working with very ambient
> > >> pieces and ignoring the Ninjam clock?
> > >>
> > >> I'd love to know how to synch Ninjam's BPM with
> > my looping via MIDI clock
> > >> :(
> > >>
> > >> Anyone?
> > >>
> > >> Krispen Hartung wrote:
> > >>> You install the software and then you go to 
> > >>> http://www.ninjam.com/jamfarm/index.php - pick a
> > server and plug in the
> > >>> data into the Ninjam software you
> > installed...then wait for the people
> > >>> to flock to you like moths to a flame.
> > >>> Kris
> > >>>
> > >>>     ----- Original Message -----
> > >>>     *From:* romain sido
> > <mailto:romainsido44@hotmail.com>
> > >>>     *To:* info@krispenhartung.com
> > <mailto:info@krispenhartung.com>
> > >>>     *Sent:* Friday, April 07, 2006 8:26 AM
> > >>>     *Subject:* about ninjam
> > >>>
> > >>>     hi
> > >>>
> > >>>     im a guitar player and i heard about ninjam.
> > Ive downloaded it but
> > >>>     i have no idea of how to use this software.
> > Can you please help
> > >>>     me, tell me how ninjam works.
> > >>>
> > >>>     thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>>     bye
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>     **
> > >>>
> > >>>    
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> > >>
> > >> .
> > >>
> > >
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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