Linking Mulitple Computers

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GoldenFox

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I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this or the point of it.

I do experimental electronic on Macbook Pro running Logic, and had an idea of linking like 10 of them together all running Logic. and somehow creating weird music from it into a mother computer.
 
Logic has an AU called "NetSend" for using the network over ethernet to send audio busses between computers. It adds noticeable latency.

Ableton created a technology called LINK which syncs multiple computers, iphones, ipads, etc.
 
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Ableton Link is dead easy, but it's largely iOS-centric still - Live itself and Reason are the only desktop DAWs supported as of now. Traditional MIDI sync & routing the audio through a mixer (for example) would probably be the simplest way to achieve this.

Whether or not there's a point to it is another matter - back in the day it wasn't super rare to use another computer to lessen the plugin load on your main DAW via plugins like FxTeleport and Wormhole, but these haven't been supported for years afaik. Computers got pretty fast pretty quick, and usually modern computers can handle more than enough processing on their own. Then again, if you want to have 10 people jamming on different computers at the same time, maybe there is a point :)
 
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