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Hey everybody.

I've been a long time performer user but I'm working on my first full scale album. We are recording the drums at the the drummers home studio and the guitars, bass, and vocals at mine. Both of us are using performer and I was wonder if anybody had any tricks for sharing the sessions in both locations without always running a hard drive back and forth.

Bascially I'll add a guitar track, here, she'll re-record the drums, I'll the vocals, she'll do some snare replacement ect. Other than putting the new audio files and the project file on dropbox or something is there a more efficient way to do this?

OMF or AAF files are your friends.

There are four of us doing the major work on our album, scattered around the country. Tom Stevens set us up with BitTorrent Sync after we realized Dropbox was not really going to work that well. We have a private torrent. I load a stereo drum mix and all the other tracks into the folder on my computer, it uploads to everyone's sync folder. They do their over dubs and add them to the song folder in the sync folder. I can add those back to the master project and everyone has them to add to their project. Doesn't matter what program we are using. It's just WAV files which should line up with no issues.

Gobbler is perfect for that. One of the main things it is designed for. It lets both of you see the current folder structure of the entire DP folder. I 'think' there is a little video about how to do it not he site.

But if not, it's pretty easy. You point to the desired drive needing scanned. After it's done, you send link to the other ones.

It also serves as an offline encrypted backup for you.

I'm curious to see what the new iCloud Drive feature (just announced today as part of the upcoming Yosemite OS) will offer in this area. Hopefully we are getting back to what we once enjoyed with iDisk!

Babz

Thanks for all the help. I'll defiantly try all of the above. Sorry i asked the question and then kinda vanished. Went on vacation for a week then had trouble with the day job which put the recording off. But gobbler sounds like a good match for us.

Again thanks.