Blend - Collaborate w/ musicians & producers to make music together

Hi @staringispolite, that's definitely not how Blend works. When you 'pull' a project, you get your own local copy in your Dropbox. Working on that won't affect any other copies other users have. When you publish your copy, that creates a fresh project on Blend, linked back to the user that you pulled from. This way, projects have a full lineage with attribution, and each artist's version can be pulled and updated independently. This is a cool project that went through multiple revisions from different people, with a full lineage that you can trace back to the source: https://blend.io/project/52a6e74... Hope that helps! - Christian Montoya, product manager, Blend

Ohhhh I see. So it's not really about collaboration on a single project, it's more like an "open source" publishing platform that encourages remixes and re-use of components?

@staringispolite that's a fair assessment. the way we link the projects together makes it all part of the same 'lineage,' but each update is a project in its own right. @lylemckeany we currently encourage musicians to publish projects in multiple formats if possible. The various DAWs don't really play together, but the project folders include all the stems, samples and MIDI data, so it is possible to transfer everything into your DAW of choice and work it. We have some projects already where musicians have done this. And we are working on more ways to streamline the workflow between different DAWs. - Christian Montoya, product manager, Blend

Awesome. Thanks @decktonic!

I discovered Blend during a mooc on Coursera, from berkeley music school, teacher was Erin barra. Here my link with my 3 first assignments from the course : https://blend.io/raseliche

I encourage any producer to engage into those free courses, not only you will eventually learn things, but it will give you the strength and the motivation to produce tracks for the assignments (with deadlines, peer reviews with other students an all, etc.), well this helpt me finding motivation and discovering Blend, a really good product.

Pros:

Backup projects, cool community giving help and advices, a nice interface with even an app. Platform for musicians, to share with musicians

Cons:

I only see pros using blend, never encountered any drawbacks