JackTrip: Under the Hood of an Engine for Network Audio

Abstract The design of a platform for bi-directional musical performance using modern Wide area networks (WANs) poses several challenges that are different from related applications, e.g. synchronous local area network (LAN) studio systems or uni-directional WAN streaming. The need to minimize as much as possible audio latency and also maximize audio quality requires specific strategies which are informed, in part, by musical decisions. We present some of the key design elements of the JackTrip application which has evolved through several years of deployment in musical work over wide area networks.

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