Recordside Rooms
In development, planned for Phase 1
Practice is better when you can share it.
Rooms is being built so a musician can open their Recordside Practice workspace to a teacher, a bandmate, or a fellow musician. The guest joins through a browser, without installing Recordside or creating an account, and the music stays at the centre of the conversation.
Nothing on this page is available to use yet. It describes the intended experience so you can tell us whether it is the right one.
The intended workflow
What a Rooms session is meant to feel like.
The point is to remove the setup that usually sits between two musicians and the passage they want to work on.
01
The host opens a practice workspace
A teacher or bandmate starts Recordside as they would for any other session, with the recording and the mix they want to work from.
02
The guest joins from a browser
No installation, no account, no setup call. The guest opens a link and waits to be let in.
03
The host admits them
Admission stays with the host. Nothing is shared with anyone who has not been accepted into the room.
04
Both people hear the same music
The shared recording and stem mix are what both people hear, so the conversation is about the same passage at the same tempo.
05
They work on the passage together
Discuss a phrase, demonstrate a technique, slow a section down, or run through a lesson while the music stays central.
06
The session ends and nothing lingers
The room closes. Your library, Takes, and history stay where they always were, on the host’s machine.
Planned capabilities
What Rooms is being designed to do.
These are the capabilities under development. Some may change as the feature is built and tested.
- A live shared Practice workspace
- Shared recording and stem-mix audio
- Host microphone
- Optional camera
- A guest who joins through a browser
- Guest microphone and camera
- Host admission before anyone joins
- Lesson-style and rehearsal-style collaboration
The intended use
A teacher and a student share the same passage, at the same tempo, with the student’s own recording in the room. The teacher slows it down, points at the transition, and the student plays it back without either of them changing what they are looking at.
Two musicians, one recording, one workspace.
Being clear about it
What Rooms is not.
It is easier to decide whether you want something when the limits are stated up front.
- It is not a low-latency jamming service. Rooms is for working through music together, not for playing a set in perfect sync across a city.
- It is not a broadcast or streaming platform. A room is for the people in it, and the host decides who that is.
- It does not need a Recordside installation on the guest’s side, and it does not require an account from them.
- It is not available today. There is no date, and nothing here is a promise of a release window.
Further ahead
Recordside Classroom.
Classroom is a possible future extension of the same idea, aimed at teaching rather than one-to-one sharing. It is not being built yet and nothing about it is decided. We mention it only so the direction is not a surprise later.
Where the ideas sit
Recordside
In development. The desktop practice system.
Recordside Rooms
Planned for Phase 1. Live shared practice sessions.
Recordside Classroom
Future direction only. No design, no date, no commitment.
Updates
Follow the development of Recordside.
Recordside is being built to bring the whole practice process together, from playing alongside the original recording to reviewing your performance and planning what comes next.
- Development milestones as the product takes shape
- Product previews, without promising dates we cannot keep
- Availability news, including the Windows release