qTox VS ptcollab

If you go to https://github.com/qTox/qTox You will see the following: "Due to a lack of resources, qTox is no longer maintained. If someone with provable C++ experience and sufficient resources to maintain qTox wants to take over I'm happy to discuss that." So is someone going to "take over"? I really like qTox & would hate to see it go.

qTox https://qtox.github.io/ There is an android variant called aTox, not sure about mobile IOS.

Maybe something that uses the Tox network? Maybe qTox: https://qtox.github.io/

Qtox(p2p messaging?) failed: You can send files, but it looks like you can only open folders to look for files to send, not send folders themselves.

Tox (anonymous too, if routed through Tor) [clients like qTox might not be the "sexiest", but they are small and can be used almost anywhere]

What is Google? https://qtox.github.io/

Qtox does all that, even if screen sharing was a bit obscure years ago. Qtox won't work on iOS but there is an Android release. Big advantages: no server required, easy to use, secure, open source.

Cave Story OST is not made with PxTone, but with OrgMaker. But, there's a fork of PxTone called ptcollab that was recently updated to be MIDI kryboard compatible. And yes, the original PxTone Collage can read thr files made with ptcollab. Ptcollab is a much better experience overall.

ptcollab (pxtone collab) is a music editor where you can collaborate with friends.[0]

[0] https://yuxshao.github.io/ptcollab/

This is super exciting! I've been exploring this space of collaborative music editing too (and will shameless plug a multiplayer piano roll DAW I worked on [1]) and had some thoughts.

1. When collabing with friends it was slow for us to iterate because we (and a lot of people) just send files back and forth. It was hard to sketch things out without having some other kind of whiteboard. Of course others who can communicate musical ideas better through words probably would handle this a lot better.

2. Multiplayer editing was really fun in comparison. The magical moment is when you're working on some section and you listen to the song again and you realize someone else has added something on top of what you were doing earlier. It's like the song has taken on a life of its own.

3. Even with multiplayer it's still hard to coordinate and you can't get around planning even with rich tools. If the song was gonna be serious and not just doodles, we usually had to voice-chat to discuss what'll go in each section, then sorta divvy up parts. I guess the upshot is that even with the ability to be 'maximally' present with others, many people, myself included, work best with some amount of private creative freedom.

When I jammed in a bigger group, flows like relays or Monsquaz swap [2] that gave people that freedom, then at specific moments let them intermingle, seemed to work best for getting something out at the end. (If it was a free-for-all people usually ended up doing their own thing in some measures they staked for themselves out in the roll. Or otherwise people just spammed meme songs like Megalovania everywhere.)

[1] https://github.com/yuxshao/ptcollab