EJamming

About a week ago I picked up an XM radio. A pretty cool device. The one downside that i see is that there are still commercials. Not as many as there are on normal FM radio, but commercials still the same. One of the commercials that caught my attention was for a service called EJamming. Seems like a neat concept. It states that all you do is “Just plug any MIDI-enabled instrument into your computer, fire up the eJamming™ Station and you’re connected to your friends, making music together over the internet in real time – no matter if they live a thousand miles away.”

About a week ago I picked up an XM radio. A pretty cool device. The one downside that i see is that there are still commercials. Not as many as there are on normal FM radio, but commercials still the same. One of the commercials that caught my attention was for a service called EJamming. Seems like a neat concept. It states that all you do is “Just plug any MIDI-enabled instrument into your computer, fire up the eJamming™ Station and you’re connected to your friends, making music together over the internet in real time – no matter if they live a thousand miles away.”

Has any one else heard of this service?

9 thoughts on “EJamming”

  1. That does sound kind of

    That does sound kind of nifty… I’m surprised I haven’t heard the commercial before (Proud XM user myself). My one concern is that it says plug in a MIDI-enabled instrument… does that mean that the output you and your friends hear as you jam is in Midi format? Because maybe I’m just a total snob when it comes to sound quality, but wouldn’t that sound, like, really crappy?

    Arthur Rowan Brother Katana of Reasoned Discussion Rebel Leader and Overseer of Acoustic Integrity for the Unitarian Jihad

    1. soft synths

      I dunno, I use a USB MIDI controller all the time patched to software synthesizers which play in almost-real-time. Latency’s about 3 milliseconds, which is less than the threshold the human ear can detect. I can make some amazingly phat sounds, only limited by my CPU’s capacity to carry the data and create stuff. And by my limited musical ability 😉

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      Matthew P. Barnson

    2. Ejamming Program

      The software and concept for ejamming is amazing. I am a college student with very little money, but I invested $12,500 of my own money into ejamming because I am very confident that it will succeed. I also have a degree in music, and have worked with many music technologies, so I have a great deal of experience. The sound quality is as great as the samples that you create for MIDI. Many MIDI programs also have great sound samples that come stock.

      visit http://www.ejamming.com for more info

      Here is a message from the President of ejamming about lag time…

      Hi guys, Alan Glueckman from eJamming, Inc. here. Just wanted to let you know that the lag times are surprisingly less than you think they’ll be, and you’ll find you’ll accommodate much quicker to the latencies than you think you will. Here’s why: eJamming’s patented algorithms delay the sounding of your instrument until you receive data from your fellow eJammers. So from the time you hit your keyboard, strum a guitar string or strike a drum skin, the time it takes to hear that note and those of the other players on your stage varies from 15mS (milliseconds) within a city, 25-40mS within a 1500 mile jam and 40-50mS cross country. eJamming has even connected musicians from NYC to London at 49mS.

      Musicians who’ve tested eJamming (and there’ve been a lot of them) accommodated very quickly to these local delays (surprisingly quickly), and many musicians have found they can even accommodate to the 50-60mS inherent in eJamming from the East Coast of the US to Europe.

  3. eJamming Beta for the Mac’s available now

    Hey Moose – Alan Glueckman from eJamming here. Just wanted to let you know eJamming’s available for the Mac now (PC version will go up in mid-September). http://www.ejamming.com

    This is the Early Adopter Test version, so expect some bugs and some features aren’t fully functional yet. But you can sign up for a Free Trial and check it out.

    Hope you like it.

    1. How’d You Get $12.5K from a College Student?

      Alan,

      How’d you get a college student to fork over $12,500 of his tuition money to invest in your company? If you have any other ingenious ideas for parting college students with their money, please advise. I live close enough to the University of Minnesota where I can put it to good use.

      1. How I got the money to invest

        I was able to make the money that I have by saving wisely, and making smart investments into companies like eJamming. When eJamming goes public, I can afford to stay in college for the rest of my life.

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