In this strange time of self-isolation I am probably not the only one looking for ways to make live music with others over the internet. I have never found a good way to do this due to problems like latency, glitches, etc. A normal 'jam' seems pretty much impossible but I wondered if there might be some possibilities for things like looping midi with HH/BrainModular that might be interesting.
The first idea that occurs to me is exploiting the Piano Roll array output - if this array could be sent over the internet to someone running a setup with a Piano Roll set to receive an array, with the same arrangement going back the other way, then two (or more) people could work on a sequence together (perhaps with the same midi data triggering entirely different sounds for each person). The array could be sent every bar and as it arrives with its own abstract time data it would not be spoilt by latency issues.
I've made a start on this but I don't know how to get the array into a format that can be output from HH/BM to travel via something like the Mac Network MIDI handler. I've tried to encapsulate the array as sysex data but so far it doesn't work.
Anyone else interested in finding a way of doing this sort of thing?Statistics: Posted by bmartin — 25 Mar 2020, 16:43
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