More about connection problems
Introduction to connections Solocontutti almost always works really well and with great quality and latency, but sometimes there are problems and when that happens there are loads of tools to solve it. This post follows up from the previous post to take a deep dive into what causes problems and how they can be resolved. Just a quick warning - this does not cover the process of establishing a connection, that's a whole other topic. This post is aimed at people who don't already have an understanding of digital audio and internet routing, but are willing to dig technically a bit deeper. What is going on? What exactly is going om when Solocontutti sends and receives audio? You may think that this is just the same as, for example, Zoom works but this is less than half true. The fundamental reason that apps like Solocontutti exist is that realtime collaborative online performance (meaning playing together online, which I will now abbreviate to RCOP) requires a latency of around 30m...