I have had great success with Jamkazam up until recently.

But recently, I have had a serious problem.

Running JamKazam seems to reduce my download speed (as measured by speedtest.net using the centurylink server) which then causes audio from remote musicians to be very choppy and distorted. (This shows up inside JamKazam when I look at a remote musician’s statistics, I can see the Bw Rx (if I remember right) numbers go way down. But the problem is not actually with the remote musician but with my bandwidth. Note that this issue happens with multiple different remote musicians (each in one on one sessions with me).

I have CenturyLink Gigabit Fiber and normally download speeds are between 750 and 950 Mbps (same for upload speeds). Lately, when I am in a JamKazam session, my download speed goes down to as low as 20 Mbps (upload speed is not affected).

Other musicians can hear me just fine (I guess because my upload speed is not affected) but their sound comes in extremely choppy and distorted. Latency is not affected much so I can still play with others but it is about 97% less fun because they sound so bad.

I know it doesn’t seem like JamKazam could cause a reduction in download speed but this is the only time it happens. I wonder if it triggers some kind of throttling by the ISP? 

Does anyone have any explanation for this? Eventually, after I shut down Jamkazam, my download speed returns to normal, sometimes I have to reboot my router, and it may take several hours.

This is on a MacBook pro running Mojave (10.14.6) with several of the most recent versions of Jamkazam, most recently Build 2.00 - "1.0.3733".

If it was not for this problem I would definitely become a paid subscriber, but Jamkazam is not super useful for me because of this issue.

Not sure if this some kind of java/windows interaction, but task manager was showing a certain CPU % usage by jamkazam.  Before yesterday's update, it was around 25-30%.  When I opened an audio backing track, that CPU dropped by half or more.  ???   And there was still just one JK entry in taskmanager.

 I’m trying to set up my Electric Guitar input, using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. In Audio Gear setup when I'm on "Select & Test Audio Gear the guitar sounds fine (in only one channel). When I press next and go to the “Configure Tracks” page, the guitar is coming through both channels and is quite distorted (like a distortion box has been added). 
All of the levels on the 2i2 box or in JamKazam are set quite low and there's not clipping showing at all. No matter how low I turn the imput I get the distortion.
 If I proceed to step 5 (“turn off direct monitoring”), when I press play I hear the background tone clearly, but the guitar is still distorted.
 This is not happening with  other software. 
Any ideas?

Add a "Member since {date}" as a profile attribute. The # of friends they have gives a hint, it would be good to know how experienced people are with the platform. You could also include "Last seen on {date}" to reflect how active they are.

The ability to give recognition - a "like" or such - would be nice for a sense of community. Only positive ratings though! no need for thumbs down, if you don't like how they play or behave you will know not to play with them in the future.

Showing their level will also be useful to know in the new year.

A section on what gear they are using would also be good. It should include instruments & audio interface gear.

hello thank you in advance

everytime i create a scheduled session and start receiving rsvp
i go into session and accept those rsvp 
i then may leave JK or leave it running and either way when i go back into to create a sesion
for an unrelated session,, my scheduled session is gone,

this has happened every time and yesterday was my first time setting up scheduled session.
i read to remove the ( ) from my 'handle'  but made no difference

help need a session for this coming monday

mike

I changed my PreSonus AudioBoxiTwo sample rate from 16 to 64 in both Universal Control and Studio One 4, but as soon as I open Jamkazam, they reset at 16. Let me know what you think.

All kinds of connection and audio issues in regular session with 4 participants. Crackling coming and going, volumes going in and out, audio dropping completely was experienced by each player at different times.

We were all using 256kbs and frame size of 2.5ms (we each turned up framesize from lower settings in the hope it would help). All network path settings were default.

JK at this moment is definitely not ready for primetime. Things had been better for the past couple of weeks but I'm afraid of what the remainder of this week holds after tonight's bad experience.

Am not going to be happy when I pay for this service and get a crappy experience like this.

One of the more frustrating aspects of JK, for those of us who use the program for recording our sessions is the fact that the File Manager
isn't capable of much file management. A "simple" delete all feature would be terrific, to allow those of us who have taken everything we want from those recording sessions and would like to clear the deck for the next series of recording sessions.

As it is, I guess the only way to clear out months of backlogged discarded, missing, and/or forever pending session tracks is to close our Jamkazam account and start a new one. I have talked to more than a few JK users who do that fairly often. Seems almost like JK is asking people to reconsider their use of the program. Not a great marketing plan.

Hello

Re: Violin Sounds like a Guitar with a Distortion Pedal

I am looking for advice on the audio settings for a violin.

At the present the violin sounds like a guitar with a distortion pedal!

I would rather be able to make the violin sound like a violin although this might have been different in my teenage years!


Thank you in advance.


Kind Regards


Colin MacLeod
Edinburgh, Scotland

Good Afternoon.

A few of our band members just updated to the most recent Dec 8th build of JK.  
The client app running idle or in solo/private session is using way to much CPU.
33% to 40% now, last build was 5 to 7%.   

I'm running on an Intel® Core™ i5-7260U CPU @ 2.20GHz  2.21 GHz 16M
Presonus 24C. JK and UC only, no other services.
Fully capable. 

My collogues running i7 Gen8's, all having the same high CPU usage issues.

Please advise.

Thanks
dasp61

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