How to make music remotely

Use the cloud to collaborate with your musical buddies

REQUIRES

Splice Studio (free), macOS 10.14 or later

YOU WILL LEARN

How to collaborate remotely using Logic or other apps

IT WILL TAKE

30 minutes IF YOU’VE EVER tried to play along with another musician in a Zoom call, you’ll know that the lag in video apps makes real-time collaboration painful. But that doesn’t mean you can’t all work remotely on the same track when you can’t all be in the same room. Simply share your project with your collaborators, and it will automatically update and sync when anybody adds to it.

For remote music making, you need everyone to have three things. One, decent internet access. Two, a music app — ideally the same one you have. And three, an interface that they can use to connect their instrument to their computer, such as a USB guitar, microphone, or MIDI interface.

When you have all of those things, you can use cloud storage to share and sync your project, but what if your bandmates don’t use the same apps or, whisper it, don’t even have Macs? As we’ll discover, there’s an elegant solution, and it’s called Splice Studio. CARRIE MARSHALL