Exciting times ahead! Plugin developer Ohm Force (known for their plugins like effects Ohm Boys and Frohmage) recently tease an upcoming collaborative host. It looks like the sort of thing Apple could have done, but hasn't (when you see the video you'll know what I mean.. especially the whole "time machine" similarity... as well as the GarageBand-style MIDI and audio editing pane, etc. etc.).
It's an interesting - if not great - idea... one I think we'll see more of as connected applications become more popular. Ableton had promised something like this with Share, and then fell off the radar. Imagine-Line had a collaborative tool called Collab for its FL Studio, then abandoned it. The most significant competition comes from tools like Indaba. Indaba's edge comes from being powered by Web tech, allowing users to do all their editing right in the browser; serious users can then keep using their host of choice and just bounce out audio. While Indaba has an offline editor too, the addition of plugins in Ohm Studio is a big change. Read on.......
The real future here is collaborate editing in the "cloud" - sessions are uploaded to a server, which keeps track of versioning. The changes are realtime, though usually the trick to allowing international collaboration over the internet is to make things delayed enough that everyone stays in sync.
There's also an accompanying Web community for connecting with collaborators. Everything else about the product - detailed features, pricing, and specifics of how it all fits together - is as yet unknown. Mac and Windows are both supported.
http://www.ohmstudio.com/
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