Collaboration Bandlab

There are two ways I do it when I do it.
 
It's easy to export stems and import them into any DAW. This is usually my method. The Bandlab app hasn't actually caught on with me, mainly because I don't do a lot of collaboration. I can see where exchanging files through the app could be something other people like. I see the tech as similar to a simple Garageband kind of thing. Good enough to hash out ideas on I suppose. The one thing I don't know much about its the way The BL app lets multiple examples of the tune be changed by perfect strangers who can add anything they want. So I wouldn't put anything on there that you wouldn't want altered in a big way. 
What goes in won't be what comes out. That could be good or bad all depending. I know that sounds like an evasive answer but it's true.

It seems you might be looking for something a bit more real time. I'm so accustomed to working with people who have different daws that I had almost given up hope that anyone would actually be using the same daw . In one of my last collabs the OP had Reason.
 
If you don't need the mix to be in the cloud the way it is in the BL app you could simply use something like dropbox or similar and share the file with your collaborator as a .bun file. It's usually best to have one designated person who mixes, so if you were mixing you would eventually have a project with all of the tracks in it no efx or any other plugin, because, as you say, you probably wouldn't have or use the same plugins. 

Hi everybody,
have you already heard about Steinberg opening its plugin "VST Transit" for all DAWs?
I read it right before:
https://www.steinberg.net...s/vst/vst_transit.html
https://youtu.be/ii91BgRrHIE
Maybe this might be an interesting alternative for an end-to-end-collaboration?
But sorry, no App for iPhone, just iPad...
Best regards

bluebeat1313
Here is example. I have a friend. She has great voice. She is 150 miles away. We meet 2-3 times a year. If we are not distracted by things that life throws at us, we try to record something at my place. She does not do record on her own and she does not have time to learn DAW from scratch. If we have same DAW it would make things much easier as I can explain basic stuff to her. If we can share files efficient, user friendly way, through DAW plugin or some core feature it would make things even smoother. In this scenario, she would open my file with instrumentals and only have to remember 5-10 steps in Cakewalk to record her vocal takes and then share that project with me. 

Very interesting my friend:
I have the same issue but I do not think collaborative software will solve my problems, at least not between me and a non-studio owner, or someone with no studio access.

Here is my story.
I have been engineering music all my life, I hate singing. for me it's like going to the dentist. 
So I decided that I will write produce and Engineer but would rather other people sing my songs.

Based on what you just wrote, it could solve all of my issues when it comes to collaboration with singers but here is my problem. I recently met a girl on Bandlab, her voice blows me away but she knows nothing about professional recording, in fact, the song she posted was recorded on her phone and uploaded to Bandlab.

I could send her audio files assuming there was a streamline way to collaborate. This big issue is how do I get quality recordings of her? For example: I use a Neumann U87 and I would prefer she sing into that but regardless of software, she will need to go to a professional studio to record.

The best I can do is book her at a professional studio and do a voice over. This works but is expensive and not very fluent.

I think any collaborative software will require a hardware counterpart.

It makes no sense for me to record on an SSL Console and then send the files for a singer to sing in her phone or in her dinning room with the dog barking in the yard. 

But you are right, collaboration between two studio owners will greatly benefit from the existence of collaborative tools.

Nice thoughts, especially about "hardware counterpart"
I am sure there are more than 100 ways to colaborate with someone...
If you take music more or less seriously and just do not have the money for Neumann mic, you can always get Blue snowball USB mic for $50 or basic Irig instrument interface for about same amount. That will get you to the world of amatuer DAW recording. Professional....probably not, but I think it would be better than phone mic. 
 
So back to this topic, I think it might be interesting to have a sort of universal/ user friendly tool for colobaration with people who know little about DAW recording.  So that when you get their recorded stuff back, it falls in correct place in Cakewalk tracks. Sort of proper, user friendly file exchange, I guess. 

bluebeat1313
If you take music more or less seriously and just do not have the money for Neumann mic, you can always get Blue snowball USB mic for $50.

Unfortunately, I take music too seriously. 
But it is not just about Mic, I am talking about the environment. You get recording with dog barking and and Lawn Mower in the background.

On a lighter note, hopefully, my wife do not read this, I will have to explain the whole Neumann thing and the $50.00 mic. 

I will agree, collaborating with ideas is great, song writing, creating demos and so on but when it comes to the actual production, collaboration requires in-person work, unless both parties have access to adequate recording equipment and environment.

Tim,
It sounds like all somebody needs is a willing person with recording chops and a DAW local to the collab mate that has been using the Phone for a studio
If at all possible , get them to help you out ..who knows , it could be a win win  ...
The singer  ditches the phone and gets more comfortable under the red light . You may get a better track / performance . The local person w a DAW makes a new contact ( you  ) while getting some much needed experience ...
 
Kenny

Online collaboration works best if each of the individual participants can independently organise their own recording process. Otherwise, their communication gets focused on technical issues instead of musical ideas. It needs to be a musical collaboration rather than an engineering one.
 
And sharing the same software is an unnecessary restriction. If that was necessary then there would be a lot fewer collabs taking place in the world.

@Kenny, thanks for the suggestions man. It gets kinda complicated but she is from India and she is always traveling, plus I doubt she had the money to pay someone. It would have been cool if she would have had access to someone with a daw. The few tracks I made with her gained her enough interest that she could then dump me 
 
I like the way Kev999 said it, in many cases the discussions have been more about how we would do it than actually tracking.
This gets to be partially a male/female issue sometimes too all depending on the people involved. As you know a back and forth over a recording project can get to 50 emails in no time flat. Imagine her husband or boyfriend sees her phone with 50 email exchanges from me who sometimes asks her how she's doing.In one case the husband became protective/jealous and told her to stop working with me. I never said anything that should have made him think that. It was all business. With all of those emails flying back and forth it starts to look like a "thing". It's all really time consuming. You have a vocalist who only need to sing well...the rest of it is on you, the composition, making the words fit, mixing, everything. Can amount to a lot of time, especially if no money is involved.Sometimes a PITA TBH. I have been singing my own material.