[sdiy] OT: sequencing over the internet

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

Rocket Networks doesn't assume real-time response over the internet either.
You upload your midi or audio into their sequencer and it then plays the
material in sync with other material that's been loaded.

Another interesting application of this is Silophone, an installation in a
huge grain elevator that's been converted into a massive reverb chamber.
You send them an audio sample and the application plays the sound through
the Silophone.  For more details see

http://www.silophone.net/

I haven't seen a hardware device that does this, although a number of
embedded Karioke systems in Japan will download a song file with lyrics and
play it on a one time only basis, sort of "pay-per-play".

I've been having a lot of fun with USB lately, it could be everything that
ZIPI was supposed to be given the right protocol layer.   It seems to be
replacing a lot of busses these days, from SCSI to GPIB.  FireWire may be
overkill for MIDI.

Steve C

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> From: 	Kyn Si[SMTP:kynsi at boomboomclap.demon.nl]
> Reply To: 	kynsi at boomboomclap.demon.nl
> Sent: 	Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:36 PM
> To: 	synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl; Glen
> Subject: 	RE: [sdiy] OT: sequencing over the internet
> 
> Hi Glen,
> 
> I personally think that realtime midi-transmission via LAN/internet is 
> something for the future but at the moment impossible. The biggest problem
> 
> is latency. I have two computers connected to the internet via cable 
> (@home) and the ping-time between the two is 40ms. The ping-time to
> outside-
> computers is between 100ms and 1500ms. This is way to much for realtime 
> sequencing etc. I think it will take highspeed fibreglass or optical 
> wireless laser connections to reach acceptable latency-times. I remember 
> seeing an item on cnn about realtime music-composition over the internet 
> using laser-technology or fibre-cable with virtually no delay.
> 
> Maybe a completely different protocol is an option. Even the connection
> via 
> midi from my computer (mac g3) to my esi isn't fast enough for crispy, 
> tight percussion programming. I read things about ZIPI a while ago but I 
> think development has stopped. Maybe firewire is an option?
> 
> Adios,
> 
> Corneel.
> 
> 
> -->At 09:27 AM 3/14/01 , Dan Gendreau wrote:
> -->
> -->This topic makes me wonder if it would be practical to write some sort
> of
> -->MIDI drivers which would send MIDI info over a LAN, instead of MIDI 
> -->cables,
> -->at higher speeds than standard MIDI? For example, I'm thinking of
> having
> -->sequencer software on one computer and soft synths on the other
> computer/
> -->s.
> 
> 
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