Q: Any tool to collaborate remotely with your bandmates supporting annotations?

[zorrow]

Hi there!

Our “band” is composed of three members currently living in different locations —I’m in Florida (USA); the other guitarist, bassist and kb player is in Montreal (Canada), and the drummer is in Madrid (Spain).

To collaborate on songwriting and on our arrangements, we’re using Session Studio.

This application is pretty good, but it’s lacking a major feature: being able to annotate the sound files on their timelines.

We would like to annotate the songs at precise points, adding our comments —for example, “this note sounds too shrilly”, “I don’t hear the bass here”…

Is there any music collaboration tool that can do this?

Thanks in advance!

Edited July 9, 2025 by zorrow
Fixed typo

[Teh]

I don't have experience with this one personally, but a friend in Canada has been using it for a while and always talks it up when we get together.

JamKazam (https://jamkazam.com/) is an online tool that purportedly allows you to connect and play together online with the lowest latency possible. 

I'd be interested to hear how it works for you if you decide to give it a try!

Edited July 9, 2025 by Teh
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[zorrow]

18 hours ago, Teh said:

I don't have experience with this one personally, but a friend in Canada has been using it for a while and always talks it up when we get together.

JamKazam (https://jamkazam.com/) is an online tool that purportedly allows you to connect and play together online with the lowest latency possible. 

I'd be interested to hear how it works for you if you decide to give it a try!

That’s more like to jam live remotely, which is awesome. We’ll give it a try. Thank you!!!

But we’re still looking for a platform supporting annotations on sound files. 🙏

[geoff_hartwell]

I use Logic as a DAW, but if the one you’re using is based on PT, GB, Logic, etc it’ll have similar features;

If you’re sharing files (in a Dropbox or just back and forth) you can make notes in the notes sections for tracks or overall in the project, and obviously section markers. In Logic at top left and on top of the timeline you can make notes “verse, chorus, bridge” or you can use the same thing just for the comments you mentioned.

[zorrow]

14 hours ago, geoff_hartwell said:

I use Logic as a DAW, but if the one you’re using is based on PT, GB, Logic, etc it’ll have similar features;

If you’re sharing files (in a Dropbox or just back and forth) you can make notes in the notes sections for tracks or overall in the project, and obviously section markers. In Logic at top left and on top of the timeline you can make notes “verse, chorus, bridge” or you can use the same thing just for the comments you mentioned.

Ha! One of the problems we have is that we don’t use the same DAW. I use Live on Mac, while the guy in Montreal uses Sonar on Windows. The drummer learns the songs and records at a friend’s studio, and then he sends us the drums stems. No idea if the studio has ProTools or whatever.

Ideally, we need something like Session Studio, but with annotations. 

[zorrow]

Ah, just asked ChatGPT. Here’s its answer:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6870ecde-6964-8005-937d-324d3eb87d50

We got some homework to do now, but what’s written there sounds promising.

Thanks for all the replies!