other you have to solve questions like what happens if on both sides the users try to edit the same control, or even record different things to the same clip slot at the same time? What should be done with a new recording? Should it be transferred automatically to the other machine after recording it locally? What happens if machine number one is far more powerful than machine number two - and one of the machines just can't play that project? And now someone freezes a track on his machine, but the collaboration partner still can edit on his side? What to do now, force him into the track freeze? How to handle different Ableton content like several sample libraries some people might own or not? Or third party libraries and VSTs? How to handle midi sync or even ReWire during a collaboration?
"The more you think about how exactly such a function should behave, the more questions arise. It is definitely an interesting way to go and to explore in the future and there are already several projects out there approaching this topic but personally i think nobody got it right yet. It will be interesting to see, what Ableton might come up with some day."
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