Make music with people who aren't in the room

No website to log into, no account for everyone, no monthly fee: in Cobander the song lives in a folder you already share, and everyone works on it from their own computer.

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Free — the whole app, every song, forever. Intel Mac? Intel Mac download.

Cobander in one minute.

How it works

Make a folder in Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud Drive or Dropbox and share it with your collaborators.
Point Cobander at that folder on each computer.
Make a song. Everyone sees it, opens it, and records, writes or comments on their own time.

No stepping on each other

Locks show who is editing a song or a track, and two people's changes are merged instead of one overwriting the other. Versions keep the history, so any earlier state of the song can come back.

Talk about the music, on the music

Leave a note on a bar, tag a collaborator, react to a take, vote on which take to keep. The feed shows what changed since you last looked.

Your files stay yours

There is no Cobander server. Songs are ordinary folders with the song's name and audio files inside, in storage you already pay for or get free. If you stop using Cobander tomorrow, your recordings are still sitting there.

Not a live jam

Cobander isn't real-time jamming over the internet — the internet is too slow for playing in time. It's for writing and recording songs together, each person adding their part when they can.

Your band levels up while you write

Every take, chord, lyric, note and practice minute earns XP. Everyone has 100 levels to climb, the band levels up as songs get finished, and a level-up takes over the whole screen, fanfare included. Achievements, song goals and a countdown to the next show keep the band moving between practices.

Questions

Does everyone need the same cloud service?

Everyone needs access to the same shared folder, so pick one service for the band.