Now, another mate had told me about ninjam.com - a system, that actually adds latency, rounding up to the next bar, so every thing is in sync - it's just delayed by a bar
You set the tempo in the program, and it automatically calculates the delay, provides a click and and also gives you a quick mixer (volume, pan)SweetJesus is in Australia, I'm in Denmark, yet the shit actually works! Good quality sound as well! Given, we didn't produce anything remotely meaningful, but it was all good fun, and I could see myself doing full productions/collab jams using this system - maybe even using Shoutcast to forward the jam to the internet.
For non-realtime producer/artist action the Digital Musician plugin is pretty cool, but Ninjam is the shizzle for real-time jams! They're even providing free servers for now, you can set up your own server, invite as many collaborators as your upstream server connection can handle, and you're golden! Basic asio/directSound functionality is also there and it can record the session either as a compressed ogg/mp3 (can't remember which) or wave stream, either the complete mix or individual streams, for mixing later.
www.ninjam.com
I'll be looking to collaborate with some more people during the next couple of weeks! It was a lot of damned fun.
Andreas