Let me introduce myself first before I'll just spew my guts all over you ;)

I've been busy the last 15 years with both programming, designing and creating music at the same time. This has given me some neat ideas overtime about combining technology with music. I've opted for a computerless studio to be able to perform live but also to keep the rendundancy of my studio at all times high.

My PC has crashed (and burned!) a few times now and I've been loosing some nice gems I've had programmed, sampled or drawn. We can say the word "backup" already but if that one failed too you're nowhere! Next to that, tactical feedback is very important to me, which a PC screen (with midi-controller) could never offer, just like a real sequencer under my hands, where I know the limitations by reading the manual and using imagination with waveforms by the use of my hands...

Although, I've had a MOTU interface 8x8 ports; I've switched back to my old Roland A880 patchbay which still works best; but sadly not for sale anymore like they used to make those. The MOTU worked great, if the software was presently working and if the computer was free and not in update or anything like that. I'm a technologist, but hey, please relax! Technology should make my life easier not more difficult troubleshooting all the time!

Still, I've bought myself a smaller 2x2 midibox, better in price and better in size too; which brought me to the idea; how about connecting studio's together being able to record over the Internet, using MIDI, being able to do remote performance on the fly? I know there will be problems to solve like latency but those could be managed by using compression a/o format conversion on the fly to lower bitrates; a kind of "network for studios"...

Call me crazy, I don't care; I've got this idea for some years now in my head and now I've fixed my studio back to working form I'm sure willing to do a few things with it within the reach of my capacity. Maybe there are Open Source projects or pointers available which might point me to the right direction with this or if you got any comments, always welcome to share!

I've been thinking MIDI could be complex; although by sharing one to two channel(s) per user, by accepting normal non-exclusive messages to start with, there could be some nice 8-to-16-user-fun to be made...

With regards,
Freaking Wildchild

update: Interesting tidbits found ...

In reply to Connecting music studio rigs with Perl? by freakingwildchild

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