Ninjam
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Ninjam is a collaborative musical jamming software system which has pioneered the concept of "virtual-time" jamming (as opposed to "real-time"). Groups using Ninjam connect to a common server, and as the jam goes on each user plays a measure. At the end of each measure, whatever each user has played is played to every other user's client, resulting in what some have described as "a mildly strange but engaging experience". Ninjam also boasts a small free web service for musicians to locate other users interested in a common genre or find someone who specializes at a particular instrument to join them in a jam session.
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Ninjam allows players to use a wide range of digital effects using the Jesusonic software that is built in the client. Musicians can control what they hear or transmit using the provided interface. Each musician can add multiple channels, to add synth effects or other instruments. Anyone can set up a server to play in. This requires a considerable amount of bandwidth. The audio streams are encoded with Ogg Vorbis. All the audio played through the software can be recorded on the local hard drive for post play mixing.
Ninjam is the brainchild of Brennan Underwood and Justin Frankel, with notable work by Tom Pepper, all of Nullsoft, Gnutella and Winamp fame.
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