Time-aligned additive recording

A computer program product comprising computer executable code embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:

• providing control over first audio content at a digital audio workstation of a first user;
• establishing a connection, over a data network, between the digital audio workstation of the first user and a computing device of a second user;
• prior to and in-between individual additive recordings, inserting one or more first watermarks within first data configured for transmission from the digital audio workstation of the first user to the computing device of the second user, the first data corresponding to the first audio content, wherein the first audio content includes lossless audio;
• transmitting the first data corresponding to the first audio content, with the one or more first watermarks, to the computing device of the second user;
• detecting the one or more first watermarks at the computing device of the second user and replicating one or more watermarks in second audio content from the second user, each of the one or more watermarks embedded within the second audio content at a temporal location corresponding to the temporal location of a first watermark embedded within the first data of the first audio content, wherein the second audio content includes lossless audio;
• receiving the second audio content at the digital audio workstation of the first user with the one or more replicated watermarks;
• during creation of each additive recording, facilitating time-aligned monitoring by the first user of the first audio content relative to the second audio content by, upon the first user initiating an additive recording, immediately initiating local playback of the first audio content at the digital audio workstation of the first user at a point earlier in time relative to a temporal position of the first audio content as transmitted to the second user, wherein a difference in temporal positions of the local playback and the temporal position of the first audio content as transmitted to the second user includes at least a round-trip time difference between transmission of at least one of the first watermarks within the first audio content to the second user and reception of a corresponding replicated second watermark within the second audio content at the digital audio workstation of the first user from a play/record temporal location in the digital audio workstation of the first user;
• and
• aligning the one or more watermarks in the second audio content with corresponding first watermarks inserted within the first audio content resulting in a time-aligned additive recording comprising both the first audio content and the second audio content.

A method for time-aligned additive recording, the method comprising:

• providing control over first audio content at a digital audio workstation of a first user;
• establishing a connection, over a data network, between the digital audio workstation of the first user and a computing device of a second user;
• prior to and in-between individual additive recordings, inserting one or more first watermarks within first data configured for transmission from the digital audio workstation of the first user to the computing device of the second user, the first data corresponding to the first audio content;
• transmitting the first data corresponding to the first audio content, with the one or more first watermarks, to the computing device of the second user;
• detecting the one or more first watermarks at the computing device of the second user and replicating one or more watermarks in second audio content from the second user, each of the one or more watermarks embedded within the second audio content at a temporal location corresponding to the temporal location of a first watermark embedded within the first data of the first audio content;
• receiving the second audio content at the digital audio workstation of the first user with the one or more replicated watermarks;
• during creation of each additive recording, facilitating time-aligned monitoring by the first user of the first audio content relative to the second audio content by, upon the first user initiating an additive recording, facilitating time-aligned monitoring of the first audio content by the first user relative to the second user by performing one or more of:
• immediately initiating local playback of the first audio content at the digital audio workstation of the first user at a point earlier in time relative to a temporal position of the first audio content as transmitted to the second user, such difference in temporal position resulting from subtracting at least a round-trip time difference between transmission of at least one of the first watermarks within the first audio content to the second user and reception of a corresponding replicated second watermark within the second audio content at the digital audio workstation of the first user from a play/record temporal location in the digital audio workstation of the first user,
• applying a monitor delay equal to at least a round-trip time difference between transmission of at least one of the first watermarks within the first audio content to the second user and reception of a corresponding replicated second watermark within the second audio content at the digital audio workstation of the first user during the additive recording, and
• adding at least a round-trip time difference between transmission of at least one of the first watermarks within the first audio content to the second user and reception of a corresponding replicated second watermark within the second audio content at the digital audio workstation to a play/record temporal location in the digital audio workstation as the temporal position of for the first audio content as transmitted to the second user;
• and
• aligning the one or more watermarks in the second audio content with corresponding first watermarks inserted within the first audio content resulting in a time-aligned additive recording comprising both the first audio content and the second audio content.