what if with a broadband connection, you could jam with another scratchlive user over the net in realtime?

the reason why i thought of this is because last night i brought all my gear to my friends place to jam and we just started talking about being able to jam more times without having to travel far and lug all the equipment around.

i did a bit of a google search and found this 1 program called Ninjam (www.ninjam.com) which allows musicians to jam in what appears to be real time. i might see if it will work but - last night my friend and i just started to throw an idea around.

we only thought of 1 solution which doesnt require a stream of compressed audio to be sent over the net and that is to instead send MIDI messages.

this would require both users to have the same tracks (which in itself is probably a flaw/con of the idea) but for arguments sake, lets say you and a friend have a bunch of tracks which were ripped from the same source (or tracks from whitelabel/digiwaxx etc).

then i would imagine that you would need to somehow identify each track with a track id that you both have that will allow it to respond to MIDI messages.

Basically what Im imagining is that when User A plays a track, it converts the control signal to a MIDI message, then transmits this along with the track id to User B. User B's setup would then receive these messages, load up the track on a 3rd input (seperate from the 2 decks) based on the track id, then using the control signal (converted back from a MIDI message) manipulate the track the way User A manipulated it.

im gonna research more into whether there are other solutions which include actually transmitting audio but i thought i would mention here just in case anyone was interested in this and wanted to explore the idea further.