Re: OT: NINJAM

[Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Am 25.06.2012 23:07, schrieb Ricky Graham:
> I remember reading on here that some of you use NINJAM. Can anyone
> offer a quick insight on how to set-up your own server on a Mac?
Used to use it (quite a lot) in the past, together with many list 
members (including Rick Walker, Krispen Hartung, Tony K, Jeff Duke, Os, 
Daryl Shawn, Per Boysen, Brian Good, ...) and I did ninjam-based events 
at some list-member-organized festivals (y2k6loopfest, Finloop 2008, 
BEMF3 - the last one was a blast especially, including killer sets by 
Hartung/McFaddin/Shawn/Good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c652w0v3IC8 
as well as Hay/Honda/Goodin/Romano, and I had a blast joining 
Hallock/Boysen/Bearpark).

There's even an album of some stuff:
http://moinlabs.de/index.php?id=272

Plus, Daryl Shawn and Jim Goodin had a project named Chinapainting based 
on that technology (they met, if I'm not mistaken, at my event at 
y2k6loopfest virtually and did an album together via ninjam: 
http://chinapaintingmusic.com/).

And yes, I also had a lot of fun with Jeff Duke ;).

So, what is it about?

First of all, the software seems to be somewhat dead code (i.e. hasn't 
been worked on since 2005, but the sources are available). It's 
integrated into the Reaper DAW, and Os has done a free plugin version as 
an Audio Unit: http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/ninjamplugin.html

Ok, got carried away a little - sorry, no knowhow about setting up on 
mac, but I'm sure Os in an expert on this ;). Sorry for the rant, but I 
just enjoyed remembering that stuff...

            Rainer