Indabamusic Web Based Professional Recording
I found this new service.
It sounds very interesting. It offers a browser based multi track recording and allows musicians across the world to work on the same session.
I wonder though whether bandwidth will be an issue and whether there is a talk-back facility via the web too.
Some of the major music software companies for some time have been keen to integrate some kind of online collaboration within their software. Ableton Live has Live Share. Protools have an online service which may cost extra. And even Garageband apples bundled recording software has an online collaboration angle.
Then I found this website Kompoz which looks interesting as musicians work and record using the software they own at home and then assuming the musicians you collaborate with have the same software they can add tracks to the recording session. Mixmatchmusic offers a similar but slightly different service. So too does Studiotraxx it’s a global musician for hire site where you pay musicians to work on your tracks.
Professional musicians and studios are always a bit suspicious of such web sites but it’s only a matter of time before a company offers a service like this and the technology exists to allow it to take off …
Maybe with the Indabamusic service and the others that time is coming closer.
I wonder who owns the masters though …