Streaming DAW Sharing - LIke a Teams meeting for dorks like us.

[WhiskeyJack]

Currently collaborating on a little cover song and and we're emailing our thoughts back and forth on some mix stuff and it hit me that there must be a better way to do something like this and sure enough after some digging around i found some cool little trinkets. I only just came across this all a couple days ago and we haven't really pulled the trigger on which one we might like to use. So far i have shortlisted my findings to two things.

A waves plugin called stream and tool from LISTENTO that looks promising.

Has anyone else toyed around something like this? Looking at @Tadpui and @vomitHatSteve ?

There isn't anything wrong with the classic render a .wav and share it around but sometimes i think there are communication break downs that could easily be solved if you were sitting there together listening and you could provide some production guidance to the person steering the daw. You know?

ANd it is entirely possible something like zoom could also effectively do this i don't know. I would worry though with something like zoom there would be some compression, conversion to mono, or data saving reduction voodoo applied to the audio. So something like that might not be ideal but it could work.

Still waiting to see if the other dude is on board with it.

[vomitHatSteve]

I airgap my recording computer, so there's not really a practical way for me to use these tools, but I have read up on them a little.

Tho honestly, half the people I collaborate with are protools users, so streaming via OBS or whatever is probably the most practical solution. Of course, that is one-way

[WhiskeyJack]

I airgap my recording computer, so there's not really a practical way for me to use these tools, but I have read up on them a little.

Tho honestly, half the people I collaborate with are protools users, so streaming via OBS or whatever is probably the most practical solution. Of course, that is one-way

like the OBS video software?

[musicturtle]

I airgap my recording computer, so there's not really a practical way for me to use these tools, but I have read up on them a little.

Tho honestly, half the people I collaborate with are protools users, so streaming via OBS or whatever is probably the most practical solution. Of course, that is one-way

like the OBS video software?

OBS(Open Broadcaster Software) is an open source broadcasting software where you can set up scenes and audio using different sources. I use when teaching online to go back and forth between images, videos and live feeds.

I think Zoom would probably work. They have a setting that is meant to be unaltered for musical performance. No compression or noise reduction.

You can also share your screen to show what you are doing in the DAW. So one person can be editing while the other observes but can critique and comment in real-time.

I think the trickiest part if you want someone you are on Zoom with is getting the audio signal from your DAW to go directly into the streaming audio.

I seem to remember trying that once and it wasn't as simple as I thought it should be, but maybe things have gotten better.

Apparently there is an open source software called NINJAM and a plugin called ReaNINJAM that will allow real-time music recording collaboration over the internet.

Sounds like a rabbit hole I would go down at some point

[vomitHatSteve]

Apparently there is an open source software called NINJAM and a plugin called ReaNINJAM that will allow real-time music recording collaboration over the internet.

Sounds like a rabbit hole I would go down at some point

I don't know if NINJAM has updated it since then, but when it first debuted, part of the point of NINJAM was that it specifically set the latency to match the beat. They said "We can't get rid of all latency, so we'll instead add more latency so you can predict it and work it into your groove"