Doug Hunt sums it up: ‘We feel like the infrastructure has matured to the point where we can think of this as a real thing.’ But now, a new generation of professionals is interested, and broadband speeds make ORM viable. There was ‘no business case, hardly any demand, and internet speed was not good enough,’ Christian Hoene of Soundjack told me. In the right conditions, this method gives low enough latency for real-time music.įor years, real-time music has been something of a niche interest. It just blindly fires data packets, not checking whether, or in what order, they arrive. Apps present a smooth experience by quietly compensating for packet loss, at the cost of latency. Maybe your data packet gets lost and has to be sent again, due to WiFi interference from your microwave. The data packets our computers send and receive battle for priority – your Zoom call against someone else’s Netflix stream. The internet is not a free-flowing superhighway. Conferencing apps have too much latency (or delay) for musicians. Next time you’re on a Zoom call, count a bar, ‘1, 2, 3, 4’ in time, and have the other person say the ‘1’ of the next bar.
My aim is simply to help musicians become ‘informed consumers’ of this software – most of which is free. Most software I’ll mention has documentation and YouTube tutorials, while my tutorial details common technical points. In this guide, I won’t advocate a particular app, or give a tutorial. Inspired by Dan Tepfer’s livestreamed duets, I recently produced a DIY tutorial on ORM with pianist Sam Leak and have since been researching this field further, and talking to some of the key players. Engineer Doug Hunt’s livestreamed recording of the band Mama’s Gun shows what is becoming possible through ORM software. Since the COVID-19 lockdown, there has been a flush of interest in applications allowing musicians to rehearse, record or livestream together, online, in real time. This is an edited version of an article to appear on John’s website. Williamson offers a guide to the world of online real-time music (ORM) software. Want to perform or record remotely with other musicians, in real time? Bassist John J.
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