Une architecture pour le jeu musical virtuel réparti avec jMax et RTP

International audienceWith the growth of multimedia streaming on Internet such as conferencing and IP telephony, we expect to provide a tool making remote musicians play together in real-time and across the Internet. However, the latency and jitter introduced by the network prevent instantaneous listening of the complete song.If we want to ensure an identical feed back for each musician, each of them will hear itself with a constant delay, causing a change on the instrumental practice. However, introducing a delay on the local music is not always necessary. Indeed, the musicians sometimes do refer only on the conductor. Considering the network, we can thus introduce another kind of synchronization which completely hides the latency : the conductor synchronisation. Therefore, we propose an architecture which allows to apply a simple musical synchronization with the help of the RTP protocol. In addition, it is based on the different kind of interactions among musicians