Ableton Forum

I think a lot of artists in the electronic music genre like to collaborate, and I think Ableton Live appeals more to this crowd than any other demographic.
Just look at the number of electronic artists that do remixes, vs, and feat. tracks.

I personally write music with a collaborator, and we put our Ableton project folders on Google Drive, and share them. But, when we work on the track, we have to text/email/call eachother to make sure the other person is not editing - otherwise you end up with two branches of the project and consolidating the changes becomes a headache.

It would be amazing if the Ableton Live project could be shared and opened simultaneously, like a google document, so that two artists could make edit, and even talk to eachother while working remotely on the same project. Ableton could be the first DAW to offer this service, and it would also revolutionize the process by which people get educated, where an instructor could be in a collaborative session with the student, and physically show them how to do it, and then watch them do it themselves - rather than watching a youtube video tutorial (and there are millions of those).

I think Ableton attempted this before, but abandoned it. Dont give up!

We also used to share our documents on DropBox, and it functions essentially the same.
What is also great is that you can bounce track progress to a bounces folder and use your iPhone app to listen to your track throughout the day to think about where to go next, then you can capture ideas and when you are back home, you are ready to start making adjustments and changes.


If the original attempt to create a collaborative feature failed due to the lack of funds to build an Ableton server-farm or something, that issue can easily be resolved by having users take advantage of free 5gb google drive or drop box account.

Darkecho wrote:If the original attempt to create a collaborative feature failed due to the lack of funds to build an Ableton server-farm or something, that issue can easily be resolved by having users take advantage of free 5gb google drive or drop box account.

wouldn't it be better running client/serverfunctions within Live itself on your own machine, instead of using an external serverfarm.

Yes, I am suggesting ableton do nothing fancier than make their sets behave like a shared document. Then it's up to the artist to decide whether to share over LAN, google drive, Dropbox, or some other means.

It could even be like a game where someone hosts it and another artist "joins" the live set for editing.

The problem is that I want to edit the same live set while my fellow collaborator edits it from their studio.

Has there been any progress on this idea? I recently had this exact same thought.