How to collaborate with another Waveform user on-line?

[metrognome]

Can somebody point me to the best way to do this?
Or a brief point by point description.
I'm not sure we share the same plugins.
We have less than 12 clips per project to share.
We have a shared dropbox.

[bobsyouruncle]

i'm trying to do the same thing with a friend right now as well.

what we've found so far is that we need to use the same plug ins or go mostly with recorded tracks that are pre processed wav files opposed to using plugins like synths or guitar amp modeling plugins.

i think the best way to send the projects back and forth might be to save it as an "archive" which i think is like a zipped version of the file where everything is included and it's easier to open up on another computer and not have all the pathways for files in the project broken.

other ideas we have had:

don't use the same plugins but freeze them or render as waveforms before you send over.

or just created a mix down or stem of what you last have recorded and send that to your friend who then can add tracks and send them back to you as individual tracks. i think you need to make these broadcast waveforms or export them so that they are easy to place in the timeline for the person receiving your added tracks. meaning if you add just a harmony on the chorus, the wave file should start at 0:0:0 with the rest of the song and just have silence until you reach that harmony recorded for that chorus.

we are deciding to use the same plug ins so are using free ones like amplitude 4 and all the waveform demo ones since it's all free for 90 days.

[metrognome]

Thanks for the thoughts bob.
As near as I can make out from looking thru the user manual, archiving seems to be the way.
Yes, we've concluded that we either have the same plugins or render prior to sending.
I hadn't thought of sending just one track at a time to be added the project at the receiving end.

[Cheve]

I think freeze don't store the wav file into the project directory.
I have used dropbox between my windows and linux pcs... and works. You need to copy every sound to the project folder and open the project in turns.
Be careful with backups and imported audio... it gets heavy for the hard drive.