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You are mostly correct. At the current level of technology there is no way for musicians to play together in sync over the internet. This is primarily because of latency.

Latency is the time it takes to convert performance to a digital signal and then send that signal to your collaborator. There are many variables in this chain of events and some of the variables are moving targets.

Internet speed for example is not a constant, it changes, faster and slower over time. Then there is the constant of distance. The further away each musician is the longer the delay. That has to do with physics and the speed of light.

Jamming with someone perfectly in sync over the internet in your home town has less delay than jamming with someone in another country. The goal is to get this delay to something that is un-noticeable, generally less than 20 milliseconds.

You would need incredibly fast internet for all of the musicians involved and even still you would be dealing with physical distances. There are lots of services that provide a place to jam with others on-line but the key to these is that you can jam along to what you are hearing

but if you could hear all of the sources together everyone is actually out of sync with each other. These experiences can be fun but an in sync real time virtual band practice is still something for the future. Wow Long Answer. RS #AskCBCMusic