hello everyone, so a collaboration that may have been asked before, but is there ways to collaborate with another person(s) with own projects?, the scenario i mean is let's suppose i am working on a new song, and i want to screen share my session with someone and they can look at my session and participate online and vice versa..i know some years back pro tools had a program called "glass" or "glass room" i think where that was possible...if you paid for it!! can you do this on skype? there is a program calle voice meeter where you can share audio from a session through skype but that is all i have found up to know...any ideas please!!!!
regards Peter

There are a few web sites out there that allow a person to directly link up with another user online and trade audio tracks. The technology is all dependent on the speed of each internet connection. This is supposed to have the feel of a real time session.
 
In reality it seemed a bit clunky to me. Maybe I didn't dig deep enough. I really don't know more than that. Maybe someone else can answer. At the time I checked this out I thought it wasn't technically far enough along to be practical. Still doesn't seem as good as simply trading tracks using Google Drive or Drop Box.  

what are the names of the programs you tested please?

I'll throw out a suggestion here as a workaround. Send your collaborator the tracks via dropbox, and then Skype once they have it loaded into their DAW. Due to varying internet speeds, realtime collaboration is not really viable yet in my experience.
 
What has worked for me on occasion is sending or receiving tracks, then talking on the phone with each other and discussing ideas about the tracks. Making notes ahead of the calls can help remember ideas or suggestions.

One that actually works pretty well is JamKazam.
 
https://www.jamkazam.com/
 

 I have collaborated with a few people over the web. Used Dropbox mostly - I always send with dropbox - sending wav files. Don't think anyone else was using Sonar, but especially due to the size of a bundle file, I think I would still be inclined to send wav files over bun files. You can send a mix if you want someone to add a part then they can send you the part as a wav (obviously all wav's should start at the same point and include the entire song start to finish for ease of alignment).
 I had a guy send me three tracks recently - two droning synth-y tracks and a simple percussion "metronome" track. I recorded a drum part onto 8 separate tracks (kick, snare etc.) and 2 fretless bass tracks. I sent him the individual drum tracks as well as 2 mixes of those drum tracks, dry and with effects. Plus the two bass tracks. I also sent a spoken word track I put together with some found internet speeches, unasked for and probably won't be used. I made a mix of everything for myself and gave him a copy of that, too. Not sure what he's doing/done with it all, if anything. Will be interesting to see/hear.

+1 to Dropbox. Audio over internet is poor in general, and latency will preclude "real time." Sending wav files so they can listen/contribute from their preferred setup is ideal (for all parties).

great information shared here..it seems the consensus is with current technology as it stands the best option is via google drive/drop box but i would wager in the very near future real time collaboration will be possible..it would be great to be able to do a session with someone else as if you where actually in there home sitting next to each other except "they" are in USA and you are in UK as an example
regards Peter (who sits at home in tiny Denmark)! 

well i looked at jamkazam, it's not bad at all but not quite what i had in mind i was thinking more in terms off being able to directly access another persons cakewalk session from there comp, as if it was on there own computer, like adding a audio/midi track or adjusting plugins, editing tracks that sort of thing on a screen share basis for example i have a session going and the other person is looking at my session on there computer and decides it needs a better bass track, so he suggests that he deletes the current bass track and records the bass part from his computer on to my session or vice versa now that would be a cool collaboration...?? is this possible in this day and age
regards Peter 

I share files with folks using Dropbox all the time, and I will almost always send an MP3 mix of the project, that the other(s) can import into whatever recording software they happen to use, then they record whatever track(s) needed, then they would export each individual track that they recorded as a Broadcast Wave file, so that it/they can be imported by me back into the original Sonar project.
 
Since I already have each track that went into my exported MP3 file, as separate tracks in my master project in Sonar, there is no need to send them anything other than something for them to listen to while recording their actual parts.  Then, when I import each broadcast wave file for each track they recorded, importing them into my project will put them in the correct location.
 
Saves a lot of bandwidth doing as above.  
 
Bob Bone