Play Music Live & In Sync With Others From Home

JamKazam makes the impossible possible. Play music with others in online sessions with high-quality audio, high-definition video, and the lowest latency (lag) in the industry, driven by our unique and patented technologies. Start band practice in 2 minutes from home rather than finding space, traveling, and setting up and tearing down gear. If you’re not in a band, find new friends with shared musical interests to play together using our social networking features, or hop into open jams anytime. You can even record your sessions and live broadcast your sessions to friends and fans through YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch. Click the button below to get started! Or scroll down to learn more.

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What Makes Our Online Play Platform Awesome?

Lowest Latency

Latency is the lag between the time another musician plays something and when you hear it. If latency is too high, you can’t play together. JamKazam is the only live music platform in the world that has implemented both peer-to-peer (p2p) and server-based audio streaming. About 60% of the time p2p streaming has the best latency, while server-based streaming is best 40% of the time. JamKazam automatically connects each pair of musicians in a session with the lowest latency option/path. JamKazam has also patented unique jitter queue management technology that keeps network jitter (a silent killer) from driving your latency up, while maintaining great audio quality. And finally, in sessions with higher latency, JamKazam has implemented a unique distributed metronome that helps you play in sync even when latency is higher than desirable.

Example of latency in a session where musicians are playing music together live and in sync online over the Internet

High-Quality Audio

Unlike Zoom and other conferencing apps, JamKazam uses the Opus codec to deliver high-quality audio suitable for music in sessions, while keeping latency minimized. You’ll be blown away by how good the session audio sounds.

High-Definition Video

JamKazam is also the only live music platform in the world with built-in video. This lets us safeguard audio quality and latency, while incorporating video into your sessions for more social connections. Integrated video is also critical for recording and broadcasting your sessions, as well as use cases like music lessons and instruction.

HD video screenshot from a session where musicians are playing music together live and in sync online over the Internet

Session Creation

Online session scheduling screenshot from a session where musicians are playing music together live and in sync online over the Internet

Set up private sessions for things like band practice when you don’t want to be heard or interrupted by others, or public sessions if you’d like other musicians on the platform to drop in for open jam sessions. You can create instant sessions that are active right away, or future sessions that give others time to RSVP and meet up at a specified date and time.

Session Features

When in sessions, each musician can adjust their own personal mix, with volume and pan controls for each other musician in the session, to hear the session just as you like it. You can invite others to join your session, eject disruptive musicians if necessary, and more.

Setting volume levels for session mix in a session where musicians are playing music together live and in sync online over the Internet

Make & Share Recordings

Making a recording in a session where musicians are playing music together live and in sync online over the Internet

Make audio-only or audio + video recordings of your sessions while playing to upload to YouTube and other video platforms, sharing your performances with family, friends, and followers.  

Live Broadcast Sessions

Live broadcast your session performances through live streaming platforms like YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook. You can even have someone control and cut between different video options during your live performance, featuring the entire group, or focusing on individual musicians.

Live broadcasting a session where musicians are playing music together live and in sync online over the Internet

Matchmaking

Searching musicians by latency, instrument played, proficiency, genre, and other musical interests to find others to play music together live and in sync online over the Internet

JamKazam offers an incredibly rich set of options to connect and play with others. Use our search feature to find musicians, filtered by shared musical interests, complementary instruments and proficiency, low latency connections, and more. Check out current and future sessions from our app or a browser. Join any of our curated, hosted events, featuring different genres (e.g. blues, jazz, country, etc.) and popular artists, and more.

Social Networking

Fill out your musician profile, and search and browse through others. Message other musicians with common interests, and send friend connection requests. See when your friends are online and in sessions on JamKazam.

Backing Tracks

If you don’t have a full band available, use our backing tracks to fill in the missing parts. Let’s say you play electric guitar and your friend plays bass. You can load up a backing track in session, mute the lead guitar and bass guitar parts, and let the track provide the drums, vocals, keys, and rhythm guitar parts, while you and your friend play along together.