Missing plugins
Your account knows which audio plugins you have, so a studio session or a track shows who is missing a plugin its project uses, with a link to go get it.
What it is
A project only opens properly when you have every plugin it uses. Aden knows which plugins you have, so when you work on a track or join a studio session it tells you, before anyone opens the project, who is missing which plugin.
Plugins everyone has are never listed. Only the gaps show, as a warning: "Jay is missing Serum". Each missing plugin is a link that searches the web for it, so you land on the page to buy it or download it free.
Using it
- Your plugins fill in by themselves. Open the Aden desktop app on each computer you make music on. It reads the plugins installed there (AU, VST, VST3, CLAP, AAX) and keeps your account up to date. A plugin on any of your computers counts as yours.
- Add one by hand. Go to Account > Skills & gear > Plugins and type its name. Paste several at once, separated by commas. Remove one with the x beside it.
- In a studio session, look under the session's tracks on the right. If someone in the session is missing a plugin one of those tracks' projects uses, a warning row names them. Open it to see the plugins.
- On a track, open Files > Project files. A project someone is missing a plugin for shows a warning button beside its play button.
People who never shared their plugins (no desktop app, nothing added) are not flagged: Aden doesn't know, so it doesn't guess.
DAW project previews
Reads a synced project file (FL Studio, Ableton Live, REAPER, DAWproject from Studio One, Cubase or Bitwig, Studio One, Bitwig, Logic Pro, GarageBand) and shows what is inside it, plays and edits its arrangement in the browser with everyone who has it open, records vocal takes into it, and swaps its drum sounds for ones made in the drum tools, without anyone opening the DAW.
Invite from the open project
The desktop app sees which DAW project is open and lets you invite someone to its track from the menu bar popover, the menu bar menu or the home screen. They get the project to download before they have an account, and signing up links them to the track.