Making music together near and far
Mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff, Winner of the 2024 Opus Klassik New Talent of the Year award, and pianist Elenora Pertz rehearse live between New York City and Dresden, 4000 miles apart. They had about 55ms of latency at this distance, and still were able to rehearse beautifully in this style of music. Here they perform Clara Schumann’s German art song — or “Lied” — “Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen”. Btw, that lovely reverb you hear on Valerie’s voice is our new built-in reverb, introduced in FarPlay 1.3 (free download here).
Ahead of their duo gig at Mezzrow Jazz Club, Dayna Stephens and our very own Dan Tepfer rehearsed live over the internet using FarPlay. They had 15ms of latency between Brooklyn and New Jersey, equivalent to playing with someone 15ft away from you in a room. This is Dayna’s beautiful tune “Radio-Active Earworm”.
Garbled audio? Echo? Let’s fix that.
Sometimes changing a setting outside of FarPlay fixes audio for our ultra-low-latency audio app FarPlay and regular communications apps like Zoom at the same time. We’ve recently shared two examples.
Do you have a voice student who sounds distorted when they sing online using their Windows PC? Maybe their audio is garbled and their high notes cut out. Fix the problem by turning off signal processing using the video below and this blog post.
Do other people in your calls complain about an echo of themselves when you join with your USB mixer? We explained the fix at FarPlay’s monthly support session Saturday October 26th, 2024. Visit our blog post for details.
Podcast invitation: Accelerate pop vocal coaching with FarPlay
“Radical” Vocal Coach Brad Chapman has worked with platinum artists including Anita Baker, REO Speedwagon, and Whitesnake. Why does Brad teach his students to monitor their singing in headphones in FarPlay? And why do his students use FarPlay with a DAW? To learn why FarPlay is Brad’s secret weapon for getting students studio-ready, join the audience for Brad’s free podcast on Saturday December 7th 11:30am Los Angeles time (2:30pm New York time). Sign up here.
Get in touch
We’ve been loving featuring our amazing users. If you’d like to be included — whether you use FarPlay for lessons, rehearsals, jam sessions, or conversations — we’d love to talk to you. You can let us know by emailing us at contact@farplay.io.
Need help right away? Check out our FAQ & Troubleshooting Guide, which you can open from the Help menu in the latest version of FarPlay. If you haven’t already, upgrade free to the latest version.
If you’d like to ask tech-support questions, our forum is the fastest way to reach us. If you need to reach us privately, email us at support@farplay.io — we’re happy to help!
We hope you’ve been enjoying FarPlay 1.3!
—David Liao & the FarPlay team