- Title
- "Come together, right now…”: Making remote multiparty in-the-box audio mixing a reality
- Creator
- Stickland, Scott; Scott, Nathan; Athauda, Rukshan
- Relation
- Innovation in Music: Cultures and Contexts p. 117-136
- Relation
- Perspectives on Music Production
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003462101
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- Professional studio-based recorded audio mixing is an innately collaborative process characterised by interpersonal transactions crucial to the ultimate mix outcome. While the in-studio environment was once the gold standard, remote collaboration audio mixing modes and practices are highly desirable. However, the increased reliance on existing collaboration platforms has required stakeholders to adapt to a virtual studio environment, relinquishing some of the intrinsic characteristics of face-to-face in-studio interactions. Our research addressed this problem by developing a novel application and infrastructure that interfaces with an existing professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) platform and delivers several critical audio mixing and music production characteristics. Our DAW Collaboration Framework (DCF) provides synchronous mixing operation of multiple DAW instantiations through the transmission and reception of MIDI control data over the Internet. It facilitates real-time high-resolution monitoring, circumventing latency and quality issues inherent in audio streaming. The DCF scales to many users, allowing for real-time control of audio mixing operations while providing synchronous communication and interaction through videoconferencing and text-based chat features. Deployment of the DCF in real-world audio mixing contexts with professional mixing engineers demonstrated successful operation in one-on-one and group environments, enthusiasm for the DCF’s novel audio mixing practices and new business opportunities.
- Subject
- music production; audio mixing; Digital Audio Workstation (DAW); collaborative design
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1502644
- Identifier
- uon:55256
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781003462101
- Language
- eng
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