Coming Soon: Waves Stream - Remote Music Collaboration

[Larry Shelby]

What is Waves Stream? 

 Waves Stream is a service that allows you to share high-quality lossless audio from your DAW, with your friends, co-creators, and clients—in real-time and with one easy click. 

 With Waves Stream, you can easily collaborate on sessions and share your audio with producers, musicians and mixers working remotely, as if you were in the same room. You can learn more about the service here. 

 How do I get Waves Stream? 

 Towards the end of Q1 2024, Waves Stream will be released to all Waves users, in two ways: 1. On its own, as a monthly or annual service (separate from any other product or subscription), 2. Included in Waves Creative Access (Ultimate and Essential) subscriptions. 

Starting today: Early-Access Beta 

 Starting today, we are sharing Waves Stream in Early-Access Beta mode with our Waves Creative Access subscribers, in order to collect early feedback about the service and optimize it. After the Early-Access Beta period is over, Waves Stream will be released as a separate service to everyone, as described above. (If you wish, you can already try the Waves Stream beta by starting a Waves Ultimate or Waves Essential subscription here: the first week is free). 

 

https://www.waves.com/subscriptions

 We will notify you again towards the end of Q1, once the service is released separately. We hope you will find it useful and beneficial to your own collaborative projects once it’s out!

[User 905133]

 

[TheSteven]

oh boy! another subscription service! ?

Has anyone checked out Blue Cat's Fader Hub
https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_FaderHub/
that does the same thing for a fixed price ($99 MSRP)?
 

 

[TheSteven]

Correction:
Blue Cat Fader Hub is more like a DAW (as it can record as well) optimized for live streaming/collaboration with others. 
It can't be used directly as a plugin but can use plugins.
But if used with Blue Cat Connector (an affordable alternative to VSL's VEP)
https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_Connector/
then you can route tracks to any/all of your DAWs simultaneously.

Wave Stream has a couple of interesting features (such as sending 'live' audio to your phone) but as a collaboration tool it's a bit limited.
It is designed to send audio not simultaneously send & receive. So as their video says at 1:50 - you can send audio to other musicians so they can play along and then record their parts "locally in their DAW", no mention as to how you then get their parts back to your DAW. 

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 2024 by TheSteven
fixed typo

[Luc]

Satellite Sessions is another similar plugin (and completely free) https://mixedinkey.com/satellite/

I tried it for a while and it was a lot of fun.

Then I forgot I had it because I ran out of people to try it with ?

[Blue Cat]

On 2/19/2024 at 6:38 PM, TheSteven said:

Correction:
Blue Cat Fader Hub is more like a DAW (as it can record as well) optimized for live streaming/collaboration with others. 
It can't be used directly as a plugin but can use plugins.
But if used with Blue Cat Connector (an affordable alternative to VSL's VEP)
https://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_Connector/
then you can route tracks to any/all of your DAWs simultaneously.

Thanks for mentioning our plug-ins. Fader Hub is actually also available as a plug-in too. Connector is a point to point connection plug-in so it will let you stream to /receive from one other machine (even remotely thru the Internet), while Fader Hub can connect to multiple other machines at the same time to do real time collaboration.

When you want to share a session "live" with others, we now have Freeceiver that can be installed freely (no fee) as an app or plug-in on the destination machine, so that listeners do not need to acquire a license for either Connector or Fader Hub. I hope this clarifies. BWT all these tools use a direct peer-to-peer connection, so there is no server in-between.