Playing Trevor's Wurlitzer in Michigan Over The Internet

See the video response too, shown below. This is what was happening at Trevor's house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnQUluP-d8

This started out as wondering if such a thing could work.

Playing Trevor's Wurlitzer Style EX theatre organ over 120 miles away in Michigan. All local stop tab changes, expression shoe positions and even 2nd touch were mirrored and playing live on his Wurlitzer.

We were on Skype audio and video during the test. I could see the shades and tabs move at Trevor's house. Audio of the Wurlitzer could be heard but there was about a 0.5 - 1 second delay over Skype. Made it a little hard to play so I had organ sounds on Hauptwerk (Neil Jensen 3/11 Theatre Organ) playing locally to hear something. HW is heard in this video.

Hauptwerk was my relay and Trevor used jOrgan and MidiBox connected to his Wurlitzer.

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[RonRizzy]

Okay - techie question...I know obviously audio/video can be sent over Skype, but how did you send the MIDI signals to his machine? Was this done via some remote desktop function?

[kiwiplant]

We used the MIDI network driver that comes with OS X on macs. Might try NetJack2 in the future to handle both MIDI and audio.

[caddyorganist]

What's the little keyboard at the top that I see you using to change stops?

[kiwiplant]

Korg nanoKey keyboard. Sometimes one of the keys falls off. They are like laptop computer keys.

[AMVVir]

Great idea!

[56Packman]

great job playing Paul. Nice arrangement.

the technical end of this is amazing.

[HD7100]

Thats really neat!

[shorttim77]

Great Performance and what innovation!! Who would have thought!!!!???? Maybe there is still a chance that I could play the Radio City Organ from my home?? :)

Bob

Philly