[music-dsp] Re: What's still to be done in this field?

[John Lazzaro]

 >  Andreas Falley writes:
 >
 >  What's still to be done in this field?

Musicians in different physical locations playing
together as if they were in the same room.

Given modern layer-2, the underlying nominal
latency between two broadband subscribers of
the same provider in the same metropolitan area
can support network musical performance -- see:

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/performdelay.pdf

for musical psychophysics to back up that
statement, and see:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/pdf/nossdav01.pdf

for a view from the network side.

However, a lot of work on a lot of different levels needs
to be done to turn that observation into a product/service --
a subscription offered by your provider, that lets you get
in extra rehearsal time without leaving the house.  People
have been working on this a long time, see:

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~jer/research/rtnm/history.html

for a history of the field.  But I think we're getting closer
to commercialization.  See:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/txt/current-rtp-midi.txt
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/txt/current-guide.txt

for standards work underway in the IETF.

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John Lazzaro
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