Resources: Virtual Jamming

You live in San Francisco and play the guitar, your bassist lives in Reno, and your drummer lives in Vancouver. To rehearse or even just get together and jam from so far away you need a way to meet in the same virtual performance room. The main problem is lag, the delay between the sounding of a note at one end of a circuit and its reception at the other end. Musigy, based in San Francisco, helps to cut lag down to a manageable size. Right now, Musigy just comes in an invitation-only beta version. The commercial version will probably offer a two-tier pricing structure. Another tack called ejamming is used to cut lag by compressing data.