Have you tried Kompoz or ProCollab?

have you tried being less of a d :)

Hmmm..... I wonder if it's viable to build such a thing like Ohm Studio. If you don't mind me asking, can you give me a ballpark figure of how much $$ you spent on it during your time using it?

@Dr_J when I used Ohm Studio, I was a paid member and even though there was 2 versions, a free and paid version, it was still very much active even between the paid and free accounts, and I used to spend around $45 a month for the Pro version. Ohm Studio was not just a website based or browser based DAW, there was a desktop client, that was actually a combination of DAW and chat, it would connect to a central server where there was public and private projects stored, and also, there was automatic snapshots taken when the client is closed, or there was an option to create the snapshot manually. It had not just the public live chat (members only), on it's home screen, but also a private chat system inside the DAW, The DAW side can also use any VST2 effects or instruments as well as the one built in, but the problem there, is if you use any of your own VST's then the other party that's joining the session would also have to have the same VST's otherwise they couldn't hear it, but away round that was to 'freeze' the track which would create a separate audio track which included the VST audio. As for the price of building such a beast, I have no idea, but what I do know though, when some of it was reverse engineered, it contacts a central server on Amazon AWS, but how it did that only the French team that built it know, as the coder that was wanting to buy it only reverse engineers the portion that had the GPL license, but the proprietary side he left alone, but if I was him, I would have reverse engineered the entire thing to get an idea how it really works and it would give me an idea how how to build a new system similar, but when I suggested that to him,. he didn't want to do that either. The DAW side of the client was great in that say I laid down 3 tracks, drum, bass and rhythm guitar, then someone joins my project (joining is by sending an invite link through the members public chat on the client home screen), he/she would then play the entire project, listen to it, then arm a new track, and as soon as he hits the record button, the other person would see a new track created with a red box next to the track name, which tells the original person that someone is recording a new track, now he won't be able to hear anything, but as soon as the other person stops recording, the track returns to white, then either the track can be played or the entire mix, and each person can also text chat live from within the DAW section, and, I 'm not sure, but I didn't use it, but I think there was also voice chat too within the DAW section but not on the members public chat. So, if something like that could be built, then it would draw in more musicians than seeing a naked mermaid.

I found a video on YouTube where a guy was demonstrating it. I have to say, it was quite a feat of engineering to build such a thing. So much so, that you'd have to charge users in order to pay your software developers, because it would have been quite time-consuming. I wonder why it failed. Were there not enough paying users to pay for the salaries of the software developers? It's a neat idea. I'm just a guy who works a day job, and I do this in my spare time. I don't know how I would even take on such a project like Ohm Studio. I'd have to quit my job to have enough time to work on it. I'd also have to hire people and be able to pay them. How in the world would I do that? I have no idea. But it's a very cool idea.

@Dr_J Sorry for the late response, I don't get 'blog' notifications, and I even forgot I had started a blog, but anyway, the makers of Ohm Studio was also making VST plugins for other hosts, and as I mentioned, there was a paid version. I was in contact with the coder that wanted to buy Ohm Studio for some time, and with permission from the developers, her was allowed to modify some of it, and the coder tried to create his own hosting system, but failed dismally, because he was unable to find out how the rest of the program worked. From what I found out, the main reason why Ohm Studio failed was greed, you see, Ohm Studio had been running for many years, so if there was a problem with finances in the running of it, then it would have had troubles along the way. Ohm Studio gained a huge user base, then suddenly the developers decided it wasn't making enough money, and shut it down. The coder that wanted to buy it had inside information that said the program was not suffering any financial problems and that it was making more than enough to sustain itself, it was the developers that had a huge argument and one of them wanted a lot more money, so the main developer that created it, shut it down.

@Toveco Yes I tried both Kompoz and ProCollabs. It seems that they are all now being over run by hiphop, EDM, (c)rap, RnB, DnB, and there's nothing for real music.