[HN Gopher] Ninjam is open source software to allow people to ma...
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Ninjam is open source software to allow people to make real music
together
Author : Tomte
Score : 68 points
Date : 2022-04-13 18:48 UTC (1 days ago)
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| LichenStone wrote:
| Reaper is easily my favourite software project out there, been
| using it for years. Still not got around to trying Ninjam though.
|
| Realearn is an essential extension if you like to use Reaper with
| control surfaces.
| krnlpnc wrote:
| I highly recommend installing jamtaba (a ninjam client) which
| supports running as a vst plugin within DAWs like reaper.
|
| This way you can sync the DAW and any outboard gear to the
| jamtaba/ninjam clock, and route your pre-existing setup into
| jamtaba/ninjam.
|
| Personally I'm using Ableton, and it works great
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| sheinsheish wrote:
| I use the delay (wet 100%) on my keyboard to force myself to play
| more accurately. Also it's nice to try to "pre-hear" the note
| before you actually press the key. I go between 50-150ms. When i
| gradually decrease it to zero, often I feel my fingers like
| flying.
|
| I haven't tried playing with a bar delay yet. It's a very
| interesting idea!
| krnlpnc wrote:
| It works exceptionally well, you don't feel any delay locally
| since everyone is playing to the same clock but hearing the
| other jammers delayed by 1 bar.
|
| Starting/stopping and big changes in songs can be interesting,
| but are doable.
|
| Basically you choose the shortest bar length that works well
| for all players, usually between 8-16 beats.
| krnlpnc wrote:
| Worth mentioning Jamtaba (http://jamtaba.com) as well.
|
| Jamtaba is a free (and open source) software to connect in ninjam
| servers
|
| I find its UI is user friendly when getting started with jamming
| via ninjam, especially when inviting less technical friends to
| jam.
| BHSPitMonkey wrote:
| > I find its UI is user friendly when getting started with
| jamming via ninjam, especially when inviting less technical
| friends to jam.
|
| I made another (somewhat functional!) NINJAM client[1] a few
| years back as a Chrome App with this motivation in mind.
| Eventually added a standalone Electron release to work around
| Chrome's deprecation of Chrome Apps, and sadly ended up
| abandoning it. I'd love to see a future for it as a PWA if the
| server software could be updated to handle WebSocket
| connections (rather than only TCP).
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| [1] https://github.com/BHSPitMonkey/ninjam-js
| ZoomZoomZoom wrote:
| Ninjam is very cool and mature software with a nice community.
| However, not everyone can get used to the idea of playing one bar
| behind everybody else. While it can provide almost no-latency
| experience, some people just can't wrap their head around it.
| And, of course, it prevents rhythmic development and severely
| limits freedom of improvisation. For static beats and repetitive
| harmony it works great, though.
|
| If you'd like to try jamming completely simultaneously, try
| Jamulus (federated client-server architecture) or Sonobus (p2p).
| Both are free software and work very well, at least as well as
| physics allow. In-city jams are hindrance-free, close cities and
| even close countries are usually painless, as long as everyone's
| on Ethernet, of course.
|
| https://jamulus.io/
|
| https://www.sonobus.net/
| boomskats wrote:
| Woo we're talking Justin Frankel things again! In the last one of
| these threads I was fawning over Reaper and someone in the same
| thread mentioned LICEcap which changed my world a bit. So here's
| me doing it again. LICEcap is amazing, and you can export your
| captures and edit them in Reaper!
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