v10,v1o wrote:I just don't see how this will work. If I record a guitar part on my end. It's going to generate large wav files which will take minutes for the other users on the project to receive. Most home connections are still bottlenecked with low upload bandwidth. I don't see how people can work collaboratively on a track, if you are constantly out of sync with each other while those big wav files are being transferred.
In anycase what if 2 or maybe even 4 people make changes to the exact same parameter at the same time when collaborating. Whose edits take priority?
Let me add my speculation to all the others. It is collaborative, but not real-time. A new part would be in the project, available to all, once it has been processed by the server.
As for synching among several users, that problem has been solved for years by PIM's like Outlook, which can sync large amounts of email, calendaring and contact data among many simoultaneous users. A simple time-stamp could be used to give the current user priority. Also, I think there will be a way to real-time chat with others in the group? If not, we have tons of chat programs for that.
It seems a lot of the problems people propose are the same ones we encounter in real-time face-to-face bands. They all get solved, one way or another.
I haven't seen anything in this discussion that makes me doubt Ohm can offer a really nice app to do something many of us would love to see.
I am, of course, a little taken back by the "fee-per-note" aspect, especially if they insist on charging for false notes.
(adds a MIDI track instantly for me, or a simple right-click Add Audio/MIDI, seems as fast as EnergyXT2 in this regard)
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