Hand it on. Nothing missing.
You've tracked the vocal through the studio's opto and a plate. The mix engineer doesn't own either, so the usual answer is to print it and throw away everything adjustable. With a shared session, the next engineer opens the stems with the chains you used on them, hears exactly what you heard, and can still turn every knob.
How each unit reaches the next engineer
Session Check: 24 stems, all the same length and rate
The handover is where records lose time and sound.
Today
- "They don't have my plugins", so stems are printed and nothing can be changed
- Stems arrive at different lengths and sample rates, mislabelled, clipped or silent
- No rough mix, no tempo, no idea what the producer meant
- Mastering gets a WAV and an email, and asks for the instrumental later
- Hours of the next engineer's day spent fixing the session instead of mixing it
With DigMusiK
- Stems arrive with the chains used on them, every control still adjustable
- Session Check catches problems before anything is sent
- Rough mix, tempo, key and notes travel with the stems
- Mastering gets one pack: mix, alternates, bus chain, details and notes
- The next engineer starts working the moment they open it
How you'd use it.
- End of tracking
Save each chain in one click
In the DigMusiK plugin, save the chain on each track: the captured hardware and DigMusiK plugins in order, at your settings. Export the stems and the rough mix as you normally would.
- Upload
Session Check looks at every stem
As each stem uploads, it's checked in your browser: the same length and sample rate as the others, nothing silent or clipped, names that mean something, the rough mix there, tempo and key set, sidechain key tracks included. Fix anything it flags before the next engineer ever sees it.
- Invite
Send it to the mix engineer
Invite them by email. They need a free DigMusiK account and nothing else: no matching gear, no matching plugins. They see the same Session Check you did.
- Mixing
They open exactly what you heard
They put the stems on tracks in their own DAW, open DigMusiK and load each chain. Hardware captures and DigMusiK plugins are exactly as you had them; plugins they also own open as they are; anything else is matched by ear and clearly labelled, with an exact render through your real chain one click away.
- Mastering
A pack, not a WAV and an email
From the signed-off mix, one private link for the mastering engineer: the mix, its alternates, your bus chain at its settings, the technical details, your notes and the client's, the agreed credits and splits. No account needed, and they can leave notes back.
Every unit arrives one of three ways.
The same
Hardware captures and the DigMusiK plugins open exactly as you had them, with every control. That's why our plugins are free: so a chain built from them plays the same for everyone.
The same, if they own it
A unit made from a software plugin opens as it is for a collaborator who confirms they own a licence for that plugin. Most engineers share the big bundles.
Similar, and labelled
Otherwise DigMusiK listens to that stem and finds the closest plugins and settings, clearly marked as a match. Exact renders through your real chain come from our servers in one click.
Questions engineers ask.
Does the mix engineer need DigMusiK?
A free account and the free plugin, nothing more. They don't need your hardware or your plugins.
Which DAWs?
Any DAW that runs VST3 or AU plugins, on Mac or Windows. Stems are ordinary audio files, so the session itself is built in whatever DAW the next engineer uses.
Can they see my plugin settings?
They get the chain at your settings so they can work with it; that's the point of a handover. Captures you've made of software plugins only open as themselves for someone who confirms they own a licence for that plugin.
How long does a shared session last?
While it's open. To keep a song for years, send it to the Session Vault.
Join any session free. Start them with Pro.
Collaborators need a free account. Pro starts up to 20 shared sessions at a time, with mastering packs.