Da stuff…

This is a collection of downloads to Jacktrip and other systems that have Jacktrip heritage, either direct or indirect.  In all cases there is a strong focus on managing latency and sound quality.  Thus, these are aimed performing musicians who strive to play/rehearse/perform in real time.  All of these systems are evolving rapidly during the Covid era.

• • • Jacktrip – official open-source site at Stanford’s CCRMA –  click HERE.
      [ Google group — Slack group ]   Download Mac and Windows installers, and Linux binaries, from the GitHub “latest release” link HERE.  The latest Jacktrip release on GitHub as of this very instant is Version 1.5.1
      
    • Quacktrip, Netty McNetface and music101 – Jacktrip, peer to peer and server, built in Pd – click HERE
    • QuaxTrip – QuackTrip built in Max – click HERE  
    • Sonobus – cross-platform peer to peer app, built in Juce – click HERE
      [ Facebook group — Google group ]
    • Soundjack – peer to peer and large-group server, web UI – click HERE
      [ Facebook group ]

Setup guides – for other stuff

• • • Excellent University of Minnesota guide to sharing audio through Zoom — an easy way to share a Jacktrip session through Zoom (a concert or recital for example).
    • Ian Howell’s – excellent documentation for Soundjack — but also excellent overall discussion of fundamentals of online music in general — highly recommended for all audiences.
    • Omar Costa Hamido – Music101 server on AWS EC2
    • Miller Puckette’s tip on how to install Pd on a linux server – “the Pd community site has “deb” files here:  https://puredata.info/downloads/pure-data/releases/0.51-1 – so you don’t really have to compile pd on flavors of linux that use apt-get for installing software.  I think this is thanks to Iohannes Zmoelnig.  To install Pd, just download the “deb” file and run:  apt-get install <filename> “

Tips and techniques

• • • A series of 5 short videos introducing and demonstrating Jacktrip – click here (Michael Dessen)
    • A comprehensive Jacktrip video series with a Mac focus – click here (Jan Stoltenberg)
    • Jacktrip Startup Guide — helpful tips when QjackCtl is throwing error messages.  Jacktrip startup sequence v3 (PDF – Mike O’Connor)
    • Configuring, starting and running a multi-client Jacktrip server with per-channel mixing – click here (Mike O’Connor)
    • A Pretty Good Jacktrip Toolkit (PGJTT).  Instructions, scripts and templates to set up Jacktrip, JMess, Qjackctl and Ardour on a Linode GUI-interface server.  (Mike O’Connor)
    • Routing Jacktrip Audio using Loopback (Mike O’Connor)
    • Juan-Pablo Caceres & Chris Chafe – “Jacktrip: Under the hood of an engine for network audio“
    • “Operation” page from a now-defunct Jacktrip documentation project.

Background and reference material

• • • Ian Howell’s – excellent documentation for Soundjack — but also excellent overall discussion of fundamentals of online music in general — highly recommended for all audiences.
    • Jacktrip material prepared by Chris Chafe’s class group and now part of Matt Wright’s documentation tree for CCRMA.
      https://ccrma.stanford.edu/docs/common/IETF.html
      https://ccrma.stanford.edu/docs/common/JACK.html
    • Online Jamming and Concert Technology Course by Dr. Chris Chafe on Kadenze: https://www.kadenze.com/courses/online-jamming-and-concert-technology-x/info
    • Slides by Chris Chafe with links to Jacktrip technical information: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cc/deck.js/153winterSemester2019
    • More Jacktrip slides by Chris Chafe: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~cc/deck.js/153bSpring2020