Show HN: VST plugin I developed that enables remote collaboration in any DAW
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Re: Show HN: VST plugin I developed that enables remote collaboration in any DAW
#2Having formed a new remote music collaboration during the pandemic, this is highly interesting to me. I can’t tell from the teaser: is this for premise loops or is this for midi bits or is this for recorded audio or something else?
PS: Looks like you use a Mac, judging by the teaser. How much effort to port to AudioUnit (I’m on Logic)?
No matter what, awesome concept!
Re: Show HN: VST plugin I developed that enables remote collaboration in any DAW
#3Having formed a new remote music collaboration during the pandemic, this is highly interesting to me. I can’t tell from the teaser: is this for premise loops or is this for midi bits or is this for recorded audio or something else? PS: Looks like you use a Mac, judging by the teaser. How much effort to port to AudioUnit (I’m on Logic)? No matter what, awesome concept!
BeatConnect is an effect that is placed on the master output and it will capture audio and place it in the shared sequencer window, sync'd with anyone else who's connected with you. Like google docs but for music. So its audio but this setup allows everyone to use their VSTs and instruments.
I've added some features that make it easy to quickly bring in pre-recorded material (like midi patterns or stuff in drum machines/step sequencers) so that you don't need to do an annoying stem render process.
Projects get saved to the cloud so they can be reloaded by anyone whenever, you don't necessarily have to be online at the same time to work on the track. Export to wav when finished, and you can drag samples from the plugin into your DAW as well if you want to do some special chopping or modifications. There's also a lot of silent treatment and processing of the audio to make sure no matter the gear people have, or the sample-rate they set, everyone hears the exact same audio without degradation.
Works with pretty much any DAW that supports VST3/AU, Logic/GB is fine as well as most of the big players on and pc and mac.
And yeah thanks, really excited to start sharing this and getting it out there, worked like a demon on this for almost a year now :)