OWNER’S MANUAL

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Jamtaba.

JAMTABA is a software that allows anyone with a computer

and an internet connection to be able to play music online
with other all around the world.

What does JamTaba mean?

Quick History :

JamTaba development was started in Brazil by Elieser A. de

Jesus
and ... the first Brazil inhabitants were Indians.

In the language of some Indians the word “oca” means house,

and the word ”taba” means a group/bundle of houses.
 In JamTaba you can choose between several rooms/homes to jam,

So you can think that you are in a taba (group of houses/rooms)

dedicated to jam sessions,

And thus you entered in a ... ?

JamTaba !

As simple as that !

This manual is meant to help you to configure Jamtaba and use

it “as you want to“.

Jamtaba is highly configurable , so let’s start by having a look

to the different parts that you will be able to configure or
tweak. .
 OVERVIEW

In this section you will learn what’s in the primary screen of

Jamtaba.

It’s important you know how each control is named so you can
communicate with others in the same language.

Green textbox mean you can click. Red textbox means you can
drag.

Jam Room: Enter

Button:
You can view here Listen Button: Press to
who’s playing and
join a room
the country where Press this button and start
the musician is lo- to listen in real playing.
cated. time to the Jam.

Pan:

Click and drag to move

the sound from left to
right.

Fader:

Click and drag

to adjust the
volume of the
channel.

Mute and Solo:

Press Mute to turn off

the signal completely.
Push again to unmute.

Press Solo to listen

ONLY to this channel.

Input:

Here you select what

type of signal is going
into the channel.
 JOINING A ROOM

Joining a Room is very easy. Just click the ENTER Button of the
Room you want to join. If you’re not sure what kind of music is
being played inside, then before entering, press LISTEN to know if
the jam suits your style and skill.

Once you click the ENTER button Jamtaba will ask is to type a name for
others to identify you while you play.

Now you’re ready to play. The following image shows inside the JAM
ROOM once you join. Jamtaba changes to the following screen. Here you
can see the other players in detail.

The CHAT window

allows realtime
Each track has indi- co-munication
vidual volume Faders, with other players
Metronome:
Pan Knob, Name and
country.
 Jammin’ in a ninjam room

Now that you are familiarized with the overall structure of the
software, here we will explain in detail everything that can be
done with each control, so your enhance the jaming experence.

DEV note “ Here we can explain the ninjam interval concept, it’s
not real time, etc.” Elieser

Jammin’ in a ninjam room is a unique experience .

It would be hard to explain it better than the author of this con-

cept , so i invite you to read the page in the cockos web site that
describe it pretty well : http://www.cockos.com/ninjam/

But i can extract from this page the minimum required to prepare
your brain :

...Since the inherent latency of the Internet prevents true realtime

synchronization of the jam, and playing with latency is weird (and
often uncomfortable), NINJAM provides a solution by making
latency (and the weirdness) much longer.

Latency in NINJAM is measured in measures, and that’s what

makes it interesting.

The NINJAM client records and streams synchronized intervals of

music between participants. Just as the interval finishes recording,
it begins playing on everyone else’s client. So when you play
through an interval, you’re playing along with the previous interval
of everybody else, and they’re playing along with your previous
interval. If this sounds pretty bizarre, it sort of is, until you get
used to it, then it becomes pretty natural. In many ways, it can be
more forgiving than a normal jam, because mistakes propagate
differently.