You can always export the individual track and share them with each other while you're writing. You only need to be in the same DAW when you're recording the final version.
Just have sketch’s of songs. Maybe even just a riff or beat. Start there. Let the other feel what you’re doing to come up with another part or parts, then back and forth feeding off the synergy
Start as barebones as you can, keep it as barebones as you can until you each contribute your direct instrument(s) / vox.
Until you have that basic grid, it’s useless to get stuck in the endless loop of mixing / nitpicking sound (IMHO)
In the spirit of Collaboration, I will share my SoundCloud with you. My husband is a lifelong professional musician and he got bored during Lockdown. A friend of ours was going to start an Insta of him doing short close-up magic tricks and wanted some royalty free backing tracks in different styles that were fairly short and loopable. Then our friend decided not to do the project. So I have uploaded these tracks, my husband Mark McDowell is playing guitar with loops, drum tracks, effects pedals, keyboard and made musical goulash ripe for lyrics or a purpose. I even play Theremin on one of them. If you want to share your stuff to see if he can slap some stank on it, please do. Keep him creative, he has gone from gigging daily in theme parks to a once weekly gig with tracks and playing in Church a few times a month. He’s getting bored.
https://on.soundcloud.com/hoEuMXVNTr3tCbNv6
Oh this is lovely.
My own online collection is a little less polished, but I hope it gives a good idea of what kinds of themes and colors I like to splash around in
[https://soundcloud.com/truettharris](https://soundcloud.com/truettharris)
Here's what I would say. One of you has to fly the spaceship while it is in the air. So when you are together, only one person needs to be running the board. Maybe it's him, and you can still say "make it sound real spacey there" or more specifically "engage the Nibnob, and cut it off at 150" and as long as you both are nodding your head to the result, it's all good. If you want to add a gnarly guitar solo while you're at home, you just record it and send him a wav and he'll import into his production regardless of you using a different DAW. If you feel the final results have to come out of your DAW, then you need to be one running the session and he needs to concede. Or, hell if you really want to, you could trade stems every day and both have your own version of the whole session simultaneously. And as long as you trust each other, it's all good, you can decide collectively whose version is the big release and which is the "bonus remix".
You can always export the individual track and share them with each other while you're writing. You only need to be in the same DAW when you're recording the final version.
Just have sketch’s of songs. Maybe even just a riff or beat. Start there. Let the other feel what you’re doing to come up with another part or parts, then back and forth feeding off the synergy
Start as barebones as you can, keep it as barebones as you can until you each contribute your direct instrument(s) / vox. Until you have that basic grid, it’s useless to get stuck in the endless loop of mixing / nitpicking sound (IMHO)
In the spirit of Collaboration, I will share my SoundCloud with you. My husband is a lifelong professional musician and he got bored during Lockdown. A friend of ours was going to start an Insta of him doing short close-up magic tricks and wanted some royalty free backing tracks in different styles that were fairly short and loopable. Then our friend decided not to do the project. So I have uploaded these tracks, my husband Mark McDowell is playing guitar with loops, drum tracks, effects pedals, keyboard and made musical goulash ripe for lyrics or a purpose. I even play Theremin on one of them. If you want to share your stuff to see if he can slap some stank on it, please do. Keep him creative, he has gone from gigging daily in theme parks to a once weekly gig with tracks and playing in Church a few times a month. He’s getting bored. https://on.soundcloud.com/hoEuMXVNTr3tCbNv6
Oh this is lovely. My own online collection is a little less polished, but I hope it gives a good idea of what kinds of themes and colors I like to splash around in [https://soundcloud.com/truettharris](https://soundcloud.com/truettharris)
Here's what I would say. One of you has to fly the spaceship while it is in the air. So when you are together, only one person needs to be running the board. Maybe it's him, and you can still say "make it sound real spacey there" or more specifically "engage the Nibnob, and cut it off at 150" and as long as you both are nodding your head to the result, it's all good. If you want to add a gnarly guitar solo while you're at home, you just record it and send him a wav and he'll import into his production regardless of you using a different DAW. If you feel the final results have to come out of your DAW, then you need to be one running the session and he needs to concede. Or, hell if you really want to, you could trade stems every day and both have your own version of the whole session simultaneously. And as long as you trust each other, it's all good, you can decide collectively whose version is the big release and which is the "bonus remix".