Network Tracking In Renoise

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I may have added my input on this idea to the wrong thread:

Multiplayer Renoise

Just curious here… as to how hard it would be to mirror song data in two Renoise instances over a network. Wouldn’t need to make the song play on both machines at the same time… just update the song as each person edits it. Could even add pattern check-out functions, or lock resources from editing… add a chat function, and some indication of what the other person is editing. I’m thinking 2-player… but more might be fun as well. This is just a theoretical feature idea… I’m interested in hearing …

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Allowing the users of the XRNS to use their own instruments, essentially creating multitudes of different songs. Which I see it as promising in itself.

Tracks themselves could be locked to specific users, control of the global mix may need to be locally lockable. Instructions like global song settings, dsp chains+parameters and pattern data freely sent in -pseudo-realtime similar to chatting.

some brainstorming for the instrument swapping.
Suggestions for a instrument swap to work upon network.

the 1st gen instrument user would need to okay the send of the instrument, the instrument containing the sample + instrument instructions and a unique identifier for sample slot and no confusion with sample + instruction versions.

this would be for testing samples locally before transmitting them to 2nd gen users. connection speed & user discretion is inherently implied for this situation as the instrument would need to be verified and approved by users.

For possible instrument editing.

-real-time verbose updates on users actions

All Users editing the instrument, what was 2nd gen instrument user instructions becomes 1st gen instructions to be sent to 2nd gen users.

Taking all this into account, a method for direction & cooperation or even topic of the song could be disregarded or implemented.

-Also, charts/stats for user interaction with songs could be privately or publicly viewed on the server, as it is logged.

It gets interesting with the server as the server also could be having a copy of renoise. possibility for constant rendering of blocks and thus playing them in the appropriate sequence as the song revolves. playing either non-realtime through js or streaming This song based on overall user approvals of the user sent data types.