Woohoooo!!! I kid you not. The most amazing feature that audio has ever invented. And I just tried it for the first time today.
**TRUE REALTIME SYNC ACROSS MULTIPLE STUDIOS IN FULL HD QUALITY!!!
It works!
It works!!
OMG!! It works 
Price = FREE! Can you believe that?
Someone invite me and Iāll prove it!
Follow these steps, and your workflow will never be the same.
Woah! I saw mention of it at NAMM, but I didnāt actually get to check it out. I better get this going!!
Bryan, do you have ProTools?
I havenāt watched any demos of it, but if it does what I think it does, that would be awesome, and I would expect everyone else to follow along. Iāll have to upgrade PT and test it out.
Soā¦not exactly āfreeā but a feature of new pro tools?
Seems really cool. I would think that it would at least depend on your internet connection being fast enough though?
This would be amazing for remote-mixing opportunities. Instead of just offering mixing critiques and mixing advice, someone could actually offer real-time mixing lessons or help you fix up your mix in real time. Or if you paid someone to mix your tracks, but wanted to be there for the session, you could just be there remotely. I love the possibilities here.
If you have PT you can add on to the planā¦its an extra $5/month for 10 gigs. But if youāre only collaborating on a couple songs at a time, the basic cloud storage is included with your system ID. I think this started back in PT 11, but Iām just getting onboard now.
No not really. I have a very average speed internet. I was surprised at how fast it moved despite that. Compared to Dropbox, YouTransfer, or the Amazon Drive (which I think move decently fast), this thing is really quick.
Now those types of things are dang near instant. I was thinking about this all last night, and Iām gonna start using it to do mix-coaching. If Iām looking at your session, and make an EQ and compressor move on your DAW, that updates in seconds. My understanding is that it transfers the change-log, sort of like Apple Time Machine.
Hereās Avid Cloud in a nutshell. Lets say Jonathan is shooting a keyboard track for Cristina for the song Wasteland.
First Cristina needs to sign into Pro Tools using her Avid IDās (ProTools menu -> Sign in).
Instead of creating a PT āsessionā, Cristina opens Wasteland and re-saves Wasteland as a āProjectā.
When Cristina toggles āTrack Collaborationā the project buttons become visible and enabled on Cristinaās DAW.
Next, Jonathan sings in using his Avid ID (ProTools menu -> Sign in).
Then both of us open the chat window inside Protools (Window Menu -> Chat).
From this chat window, Cristina invites Jonathan to the project. Jonathan now accepts, then can open the project using his own PT HD rig, hardware, and mixing console.
Jonathan records his track and hits the green button next to the piano track. This SENDS the newly recorded track (or anything that was changed/updated) on that track to Cristinaās DAW. When Cristina makes a change, it will appear orange on Jonathans DAW to indicate a change was made. Jonathan hits the ādownā arrow RECEIVE an update on his PT per the changes that Cristina has just made on hers.
So its not true real-time like Source Connect. But its the next best thing. This is very very easy to set up. You simply sign in and share it. Thereās no server, IT, hardware peripheral, or HD subscription involved.
The other cool thing is that I use a plugin that Cristina doesnāt have, the plugin still appears on her DAW but is greyed out and inactive. So if I use a UAD Massive Passive on the vocal, she can see what plugin is sitting there.
