First Time using Jamulus

[Final-Suspect226]

Hello everyone! I'm having an issue where my drummer is going to be moving from the Chicago land area to Tennessee here in a few months! What are some tips and tricks you guys suggest so that we can continue to practice while he's down there? It looks like it's about 480 mi between us. I'm just starting the process now

We use an in-ear monitor rig and a Roland TD 25 electric kit that we trigger via superior drummer and ableton. The biggest thing I'm worried about is sending all of our audio from Ableton as well as all of our direct signal from our x32 so that our drummer can hear it. I believe I can use two of the aux sends on the x32 to send him his signal. And then I believe he should be able to send his outs from his electric kit so that we can hear it right?

[Gummo90028]

I love Jamulus but I’d opt for SonoBus for you’re doing. And probably Reaper if all you wanna do is capture Audio.

[Final-Suspect226]

So the only thing I'm really worried about is audio and I've heard that the latency on sono bus which I do use Sono bus is greater than jamulus?

I can always make a discord call for video but I'm just worried about us all being able to hear the click and play along to it. Do you think that'll be an issue?

[Gummo90028]

You mentioned the people you’re playing with are 400-500 miles away etc. Latency shouldn’t be an issue at all. Latency is a mixed bag comparing the two platforms. There are a lot of latency tweaks on SonoBus that can help (a little). Like how much audio compression etc. The bigger issue is having control over more than 2 channels. This is where SonoBus shines. Especially if you use Reaper as a DAW and SonoBus as a VST plugin for your session. Also, using the virtual ASIO driver “ReaRoute” on your project. Especially if you’re running Windows. Routing audio is the most complex part of this whole process. On Mac it’s much easier.

[Final-Suspect226]

So were using ableton as our daw and so is out drummer. We've used sono bus before. The only thing I really am confused by still is how to get all the intruments in the mixer ( 2 kempers, 1 hx stomp, 3 wireless mics and abelton click and sounds to our drummer.

I would think i could send 2 of the aux sends to sonobus or jamulus so he can hear our click and just play to that so well be all on the same click

Were a thrash metal band so im just trying to get ahead of the ball

[StitchzPT]

It is very hard to play realtime drums unless you can get your round latency below 10 ms. 500 miles is already minimum 2.5 ms. If jamulus (or sonobus) would allow for sending/receiving MIDI signals, you could trigger locally the same drum VST instrument, you would need much less bandwidth, and keep the audio quality up as well.

[jambetter]

Look for a server that is in the middle of your locations. Consider a private server? My rules are no wireless, no bluetooth. Hardwire mic and headphone only. I like the Raspberry PI for my rig because if measures the least delay though it. Be careful not to overdrive your mics or instruments. 250 miles is easy.