Interesting question!
and a great time to thank Papa and everyone who posts starters and keeps the VJR alive!!! Good work and much appreciated!!!!
1) Not "real" jam, but yeah- kinda, sometimes a post will trigger some kind of recall and playing a few notes to a familiar background, just feels good.
2) Don't practice what I'm posting to VJR, but sometimes I record it over and over until I'm sure it won't get any worse (my better efforts usually are from less effort).
3) Wouldn't know how to script out a solo. I'll leave that to others. I need my time to play.
4) single track yes, for recording. I do too much editing in Reaper (for my current skill set). Especially with an acoustic, I just can't stop until it sounds like a junk guitar in a big empty hall, so far. re-record, guilty as charged. Moving licks, mixing from different takes??? ha ha ha ha ha, I mean
!!!! You got Fred Flintstone driving a Lamborghini here. I am doing good to patch a track into the vjr without adversely affecting the pooch. I do make copies of my one track and pan it and do other magic stuff, EQ it until unequal and compress it mercilessly, add reverb, then limit it if the urge strikes. I really don't even know what a "tone patch" is, I don't think I have any. Unless the simulator settings on my superchamp 2 are patches.
I do enjoy hearing what other have done (not starting off of course) and recalling what I may have heard done in similar musical conditions and trying to enjoy the fantasy of playing guitar with a combo. I never played guitar with a group so this is a new view of what is sometimes an old road. I am still amazed at how recording, even in solitude, help me to play lousy. And in this regard the computer is a disappointing as it is with many other important tasks we allocate to them. Playing in a jam, the best fun I remember is the synergy, reacting to what another has done sure, you can do that with vjr.....they ain't gonna re-act back. So you get as close as you might get with a machine.
Still it is good fun and a chance for those who don't get out to play along.
and then ramblings from the wandering mind....
I wonder if we could swap segments, like call and response, between players in the vjr?
I wonder how long you guys "hold a track" while recording? I know when things are not really perking, or when Reaper is no being kind to me, time flies by. As soon as I think of the time, I really play and mix bad.
I wonder if you guys have any trouble with levels? some times the tracks are so hot I have a hard time getting audible without saturation (I know, learn more)
I assume when you do your addition to the vjr track everyone leaves what they download untouched except for their addition. Is that correct?