Live collaboration on Soundtrap is currently in beta and requires users to opt-in for it manually. Once enabled, two or more artists can remotely work on the same project in real-time. Whether you are making a new music track or a podcast, you can have your friends chime in with their valuable tips. Any changes made to the project will be effective for all immediately. Of course, your friends will also need to manually enable the live collaboration feature before they can work with you. With auto-save, artists also no longer have to bother manually saving changes made by any member of the team. This feature has been long overdue on Soundtrap. Thankfully, Spotify is now adding it. Auto-save is also an optional beta feature, though. So, for the time being, you will have to manually enable it before changes start saving automatically. The music streaming giant says both of these features will be available in the stable channel later this year. Comments, meanwhile, are now available to everyone. Artists can now leave notes on various parts of the track to guide remote collaborators. According to TechCrunch, who first reported the new Soundtrap features, comments work similarly to Google Docs.
Spotify gives Soundtrap a much-needed boost
Spotify acquired Soundtrap in November 2017. The company has since added several features to the DAW platform. In May 2019, the platform gained a cloud-based podcast studio called Soundtrap for Storytellers. It followed up with collaborative voice notes for songwriters in October 2020. Spotify also launched a Soundtrap-powered musical playbox in the online platform game Roblox earlier this year. All these features have made Soundtrap one of the best DAWs out there. But it still lacked some features that some of its competitors offered. Soundation, for example, has had a live online collaboration feature since April 2020, a time when pretty much everything was happening remotely. Spotify’s Soundtrap is finally joining the party. While both Soundtrap and Soundation start at $10 a month, the former is $8 per month if paid yearly but the latter only costs $5 a month if billed annually. The base plan of the former gives you unlimited projects but Soundation limits you to just 10 projects. If you want more, you’ll have to upgrade to the $15 per month plan ($10 a month if paid yearly).
