How to Collaborate On-line

Break the misconception that once you have a home recording studio, you can do it all yourself. I perform in a band, and benefit from the expertise of my other group members...

Like the saying goes, "The result is greater than the sum of all of the parts"...

There are several methods to collaborate online with other users using Ardour and Ninjam...

Using Ardour session-exchange

The problem with collaborating online with Ardour is that the files that are generated when you record an auditory product are very LARGE. For example, if you decide to create a zipped tarball (a method to build a single file from a group of directories/files and then compress or "zip" that file to save space) a simple 5 minute song with just percussion and bass guitar could take up somewhere between 90 Mb to 120 Mb of hard disk space... Imagine posting that file on the cloud, or making available on a distribution server!

If you are not concerned with collaborating simultaneously on a project, there is a python script (program) that will will allow the user to visually share ongoing Ardour projects for collaboration with other online users of Ardour. The name of this program is called session-exchange, and it has been around for several years...

The advantage of session-exchange is that the user can allow for uploading and downloading of files to other users, and only have the musicians work on the most recent edits of the auditory product (i.e. "songs"). Ardour uses the term snapshot to

Using Ninjam

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