New to Jacktrip and want to take a learning test drive.Quality70s rock and homemade prog. Like a lot of genres open minded and fairly competent player after 50 years.Most of my latency is self generated. 
Interested in serious fun and experimentation with almost any instrumentation.Electric or acoustic.
Houston,TX.,Mac,Fiber,Hardwired,Scarlett 2i2
dont read music,can’t play jazz and wont play KISS
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Welcome @jimbone ! Classic Rock of the 1970’s is one of my favorite genres. So many talented artists making ageless music and songs. Looks like you have a good setup too with fiber and Scarlett 2i2.
I got the joke about your own latency 
and want to suggest that it would be helpful to know the closest city within 300-500 miles from you so that potential collaborators can decide if the latency (the time it takes for audio to be transmitted across the network and back) will be manageable.
In your case, wanting to play known songs, the distance between you will be important to help determine if the latency will be manageable. That said, I just jammed with someone 10,000 miles from me and we had 80 ms latency, but we were improvising, which is way more forgiving of latency. Still, we had a lot of fun.
Good luck and please keep us posted on your progress!
Hey, jimbone – I’m here in Houston, too. Would be willing to try a little JackTripping with you. Can’t help you much with the old rock tunes, but my alto sax and clarinet might work with your acoustic material. Let me know if you have an interest.
– Steve
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Welcome and thanks for your post. I hope you find some folks to jam acoustically on your sax and clarinet!
Thank you, Synthia.
So… I guess I should be looking for other musicians within a 500-mile radius of Houston. Is that what you would recommend for lowest latency?
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yes, if you want to play songs that are known to both of you, the lowest latency is ideal. However, a lot of JackTrippers improvise and that approach would be more forgiving of latency considerations. Good luck @debitspread !
In Central Montana, so not close to anything, but I’d try it out! Looking to jam on jazz, funk, rock etc. Keys player, time flexible… John T
Synthia – In this thread, you’ll see a post from JohnTomlinson2026. He’s in Central Montana; I’m in Houston, Texas. So, here’s the obvious question: Can JackTrip handle a distance of approximately 1500 miles?
Thanks, John. Check out my question for Synthia.
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Thanks for your question. I’m glad to see this conversation. I encourage both of you to give it a whirl. On the free plan you can start a studio and play for 30 minutes.
With a distance of 1500 miles there is bound to be some latency so if the sync is unacceptable just play spontaneously and see where you can create a musical connection.
I’m excited for you to try! Let us know your progress.
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P.S. Latency is a matter of physics: speed of light and the time it takes for data to travel across the network and back to you.
Yes, there are ways to optimize speed and quality and Jacktrip developers are pioneers of those techniques, however, Big Mama Nature has rules to follow.
We can just sit on the sidelines and not play with those at a distance to far to play our favorite tunes or we can tap into source and use our skills to play with what we hear. 
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Bravo! Well-put.
So, John: I will try to reach you via private mail.
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@johndtomlinson2026 and @debitspread - try a server in Denver - that’s about half way between Houston and Montana. Good Luck!