LightSpeed Audio recently launched a beta version of its Web-based music collaboration social networking site called JamNow, which is said to make available a virtual studio for artists in separate locations to play simultaneously in real time, making share of audio via the Internet. With the launch of JamNow, you are enabled to timetable and post a live jam session or get connected to a current session, brought into existence by another user.
Plus, you can get linked to jam sessions with your computer microphone or with your own pre-amp mixing board. You can also act as a team with others and hook up to create music in a new way online. The service is also aimed at enabling fans to listen in, with consent, so band can make virtual concerts happen.
Taking into account the existing condition of JamNow as a newly launched site, the process of building a jam session is rather complex for new users. The beta is restricted to geographic region that LightSpeed is calling the “Rock Triangle” — Boston in the north, Charlotte, NC in the south and Milwaukee, Wisc. to the west. Only users residing within that boundary are allowed take part in the beta.
The restraint is as a consequence of the issue of Internet latency, which results in a stoppage in Internet traffic while deriving servers and receivers service are positioned too far-flung apart. As LightSpeed makes a test of its technology, it will include other regions such as Los Angeles in the long run.
