If you've been reading this journal for a while, you probably know that
I've been taking singing lessons. (Comparatively few of you have heard me
sing recently; those who have say that the improvement has been
noticable.)
And even if you've only been reading for the last week, you'll know that
I've been "socially distancing" myself -- I'm in a high-risk category due
to my age, and not going out of the house for anything but medical
appointments and food. Singing lessons aren't "essential", so I've
stopped going -- and Nancy, my singing teacher, has a huge problem.
So I'm asking the lazy web for help finding a videoconferencing system
that can be used for singing lessons. I want Nancy to be able to play
something on a MIDI keyboard and hear me singing along with it. That
would require suppressing the normal simultaneous monitoring on the
teacher's end -- the MIDI should play only on my end, and get mixed with
my voice at that point. But when Nancy is using her microphone, the
return channel has to be muted. And if she wants to sing along with
something she's playing, she needs to hear the keyboard at her
end, without the round-trip delay.
I'm beginning to suspect that the only way to get all of this is to write
it myself, but I'd love to be proved wrong. Meanwhile, I'd settle for
something with extremely low transmission delay; that would mean
point-to-point rather than going through a server.
And if any of you are giving lessons remotely, I'd love to hear what works
for you.
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