Tue 28 Feb 2006
Christian Schaller has a post about Jokosher, a cool new multitrack audio editor.
Many musicians I know, in order to get around lugging equipment to some studio or apartment, have resorted to passing around mp3 files when writing songs. Each musician would “hold” the mp3 for a day, recording tracks over it and posting a couple of versions at the end of the day. The next musician would then take one of the recordings and layer over it, starting the process over again. In the end a song is created that is then brought to the studio and recorded in the traditional way.
What would be cool would be for this collaboration to happen in semi-realtime with each track being exported by jokosher via Fluendo’s Flumotion server or just posted to a known location. Each artist can make their own mixdown and share it as soon as it is finished, or even while it is in progress. Quality is not an issue at this point because it is just about getting ideas down when they are fresh. At the end, when parts are set, each track can be recorded by the individuals at a higher quality with the mixdown already set and in need of only minor tweaking. Final recording can happen anywhere since it essentially would be another node on this musical social network (all be it, a node with superior sound equipment and acoustic qualities).
I could even see the Creative Commons setting up a site for uploading tracks directly as they are done. Ok, so this is all a pipe dream right now with jokosher just gaining momentum, trying to become a useful multitrack recorder, but I see no harm in getting peoples creative juices flowing.
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February 28th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
That’s an interesting idea; I’ve certianly always wanted there to be an easy way to collaborate on music over the internet (though of course it is always nicer in person). It’s definitely something I’ll have a play with implementing when things are a bit more finished (if someone else doesn’t have a go at it first
).
March 1st, 2006 at 9:53 am
extending that idea to realtime collaborative peer2peer sharing, like it is done for text with
things like http://gobby.0×539.de/ or the sharing feature in incscape based on jabber, it would be nice to see those ideas happening in multimedia applications like sound and video editors too.
not only sharing the resulting mixdown, but the edl and the raw samples(possibly in a lower quality, which can be replace by higher quality later).
March 1st, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Ya, the mixdown is just another data stream. Each track would also be a data stream that could be local or remote (cached localy).