Re: BEMF4 and Virutal Performers in Audio-Video

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Stefan Tiedje wrote:

> No way to use skype for the audio. You need to route and mix in a 
> quality made for this kind of stuff. Ninjam works fine and is easy to 
> setup. Only thinking about using skype is already a nightmare... They 
> want the lowest possible bandwidth but optimized for speech, but what 
> does that mean?
> High quality phone requirements: mono, frequency range max 8 kHz... 
> Still valid quality, 4 kHz...
> Using two lines will for sure kill all phase relationships between 
> stereo pairs. They will have several ms different latency. The latency 
> can vary while talking etc...

Being a Skype user I'd agree with Stefan, and I'd add that the latency
is much more than that.
It's always enough to make conversation just a little bit awkward, and
can go up to several seconds.
(Matthias Grob and I have even had feedback loops running ;-)

andy butler