Since I wont see clients for a while but still have to do some mixing I would like to do online mix revisions.
My usual workflow is, that I first make the mixes on my own and then send it to the clients (In my case bands with several members).
Then we meet for a day or two in the studio to finetune the mix, so everyone is happy.
I have found this way more efficient than everyone writing a separate email to me and going back and forth a million times because band members don’t talk to each other
I’m looking for a solution that would allow me to stream good quality audio in real time to several clients at the same time so I could have my same workflow going, but keep the social distance that is required these days.
Since I use RME hardware I can use the loopback function to route my DAW output back into the system and use this for streaming. I have tried Zoom and Skype but it wont work with music since it is optimised for voice only.
VST connect does not work as well since it can only connect to one other person at a time and you have to start the whole thing over again once you open a new project.
I would prefer a solution where I just send a (private) link to my clients and then the sound comes from their browser.
I’m sure there is a solution for this, but I cant find it. All I have found so far are services, that will stream to something like twitch.
The other problem is, that I am connected to fibre optic and don’t have a public IPv4 address, so it has to go over some kind of server that handles the connection.
Maybe there is even a VST plugin, that can provide such service.
… personally i use GitHub - Iunusov/ShoutVST: v. 2.1.18 (Streaming VST plugin) - which is an encoder / frontend for an icecast2 server. Fortunately for me i have the infrastructure in the studio to run the Icecast2 server on a separate linux machine, but i suppose it’s possible to run it all on the DAW machine - or have the vst streaming into an icecast2 service on the web.
The end-result of all this is a live mp3 stream (up to 320kbit) which any number of people can connect to, subject to bandwidth available.
I wish there was a turnkey solution; i imagine a lot of people have this problem / requirement - but so far (besides studio-pass which as you mention is single-client only) the options seem to be limited.
Excellent, glad to hear, you’re welcome and thanks for confirming it did the job for you. I’ve been on the listener end of several sessions now and impressed too.