Groovesetter uses direct peer-to-peer uncompressed sound. For this reason, the latency between groovers located roughly 400 miles apart can be as low as ten milliseconds when using reliable high-speed internet, allowing for real-time online performances.
The initial established peer-to-peer connection between groovers includes a default added peer-to-peer jitter buffer to compensate for any network connection irregularities. These default peer-to-peer settings are optimized for remote recording.
If you would like to optimize for real-time remote jamming or rehearsal, follow the below steps:
OPTIMIZING GROOVESETTER P2P CONNECTIONS FOR REAL-TIME JAMMING.
The session creator can control the latency settings for each Groover in the P2P Connection settings window.
Once a successful connection with other groovers has been established, the session creator can click the refine button next to the connected Groover’s stage name to open the Groove-link P2P connection settings window.
The P2P Connection Settings window offers several additional options available, which include:
The number of channels that can be established between the connected Groover and the session host.
The audio bit rate resolution.
The redundancy of the signal exchanged between the Groover and the session host.
The sound quality remote buffer processing for both the Groover and the session host. This jitter buffer setting directly affects the quality and latency the two groves experience while connected. By selecting a lower jitter buffer value, you can lower the latency to the lowest possible value.
It is important to note that if the internet connection is unstable, or the groovers are connected over WiFi instead of a wired ethernet connection, lowering the jitter buffer may result in audio crackling pops and dropouts.
When using a stable internet connection, we recommend trying different values until the optimal setting is reached. Usually, when both groovers have a stable connection, using a value of 6 or 8 for the jitter buffer will result in a clear uncompressed audio connection at the lowest possible latency.
If you are experiencing audio connection issues, please refer to this helpful article about troubleshooting connection issues.
If you are experiencing an unstable internet connection, we suggest trying one or all of the following:
- increasing the jitter buffer;
- refining each peer-to-peer connection by reducing the number of channels per groover connection
- doubling the packet redundancy