A new audio mixing paradigm: evaluation from professional practitioners’ perspectives

Commercial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic have challenged creative industries to transform service delivery from inter-personal online operations. Existing music and audio production collaboration platforms cloud storage cannot replicate intrinsic in-studio interactions between an engineer clients in a professional post-production mixing environment. We developed DAW Collaboration Framework that transitions practitioners real-time, internet-linked This paper documents our evaluation framework’s performance through real-world practitioners’ perspectives, having participated scenarios. Our attests facilitation new paradigm, where remote participants work synchronously collaborative, professional, DAW-based environment, similar traditional settings. Every participant monitors high-resolution files while accessing complete synchronised control shared project. Identified benefits include time savings, increased productivity, engaging, collaborative mixing. paradigm empowers contribute projects, promoting global reach business opportunities for engineers. identify impediments widespread adoption this thereby posing future research directions. Ultimately, pandemic-impacted era disruptions travel restrictions, framework presents viable alternative in-person, studio-based