Ok, I just signed up earlier, and looking around the site, I don't see anything on how the collaboration thingy works, do I just upload a track, and make a new post in the forums? If so, I don't see anywhere to attach a project, or? (shrugs). Do I also upload seps/stems?
You can either upload a sketch and say it is open for collab. Likewise, you can message a particular artist you would like to collaborate with. After that, you can exchange files, stems or even projects (granted you both are using the same daw or formats) there isn’t a modality, yet, that allows you to do so internally. If you are looking for that it would be a good forum post under suggestions
Unfortunately, project files can be huge, so that would rack up my bandwidth and storage charges. So for now, members just decide how they want to do it. I just did a collaboration where we used Dropbox, and that went quite well. At some point, it would be nice to have all the collaboration tools built into the site, but that's down the road a ways.
i've used Dropbox to do collabs. there is plenty of storage and bandwidth available for free there. we didn't share project files, just .aif files and text files.
I convert all the individual WAV parts to mp3
320 kbps/44.1kHz. That way I can send them as email attachments and only super dog would know the difference.
If you post a song or a request in this Collaborations forum, you can ask for people to contribute (guitar, keys, drums, other instruments, vocals, lyrics, mixing, etc). Then depending on the collaboration and people involved, you might be able to share a project file (protools, cakewalk, reaper, garageband, etc) to work on together. I usually just send people WAV or mp3 tracks in the format they like, and count on their help to mix :) To share large WAV/mp3/project files, as others have pointed out, you can use email, dropbox, onedrive, gdrive, wetransfer, and a number of other file transfer/sharing tools to do that. Hope that helps!
