05-07-2020, 03:32 PM
I've been looking at jamkazam for this reason - can we set-up a way to play (classical) music as an orchestra online? At first I was sad to have sold my viola as playing would be really fun to try through here, and I feel useless as an orchestral conductor these days. But all your descriptions actually fit very closely to my experience as a conductor: a group of musicians will slow down to a crawl if they only wait to hear the other, and the conductor rescues the situation by gesturing ahead of the sound. Bad/inexperienced conductors start only to listen and because of the latency (some orchestra's will play more then a full second behind your beat!) lose tempo. And in my previous life as an orchestral player have learned that in some instances you should not listen to your colleagues and in other instances you must.
My questions: is the total latency of the group's sound a sum of all the player's latencies or is the slowest in the group the one that determines the latency? And has anyone tried working with a conductor (visual leader)?
My questions: is the total latency of the group's sound a sum of all the player's latencies or is the slowest in the group the one that determines the latency? And has anyone tried working with a conductor (visual leader)?