Collaboration

Editing one track with other people in real time, with live presence and no save conflicts.

Jam Club tracks can be edited by several people at once. Everyone works on the same live document: notes, knob movements, mixer changes and modulation edits all appear for everybody as they happen. Someone else can turn your LFO's rate while you play.

Inviting someone

Send them the track link. When a signed-in visitor opens it, they are added as an editor automatically and land straight in the session.

Anonymous visitors are stopped at a sign-in gate: they see the track's title and a prompt, and nothing more. The document itself is never sent to a browser that is not signed in.

Presence

Collaborators currently in the session appear as coloured chips, with badges showing which instrument each person is working on. This matters more than it sounds — knowing someone is inside the bassline stops two people editing the same part at once.

How edits merge

Collaboration does not work by locking parts or by last-write-wins. The track is a conflict-free replicated document, which means concurrent edits from different people merge automatically into a consistent result. There is no "someone else saved over your changes" failure mode, and there is nothing to resolve by hand.

It also means editing works offline: changes you make with a dropped connection are merged in when you reconnect.

Roles

  • Owner — the person who created the track. Can rename it, change its visibility, and delete it for everyone.
  • Editor — anyone who has joined. Can make any musical change, and can leave at any time.

Collaboration vs. visibility

These are separate systems and it is worth keeping them straight. Visibility decides who can open a track. Collaboration membership decides who is editing it with you. A public track is readable by the world but is not an open editing free-for-all.

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