[filoleg]

What about the performance being backed by a beefy server machine, and web just being the (potentially collaborative) front-end for it?

Everyone works with the exact same environment. Accessible from any machine. The only concern is latency, and that will be a hard one to solve. But once it is solved, it could imo become the next big step forward for DAWs that completely changes the game.

[spaceman_2020]

Latency would be a huge problem. Anything over 30ms results in your timing being slightly off. Go above 60ms and recording audio becomes impossible.

On my desktop with Ryzen 5700x, 32GB Ram and a dedicated audio interface, I still get 11ms I/O latency (22ms combined) in Ableton. If I had to send this signal through a web browser to a server, I can’t see any scenario where I could keep this under 30ms. Beyond 30ms, the lag becomes noticeable.

It can work if you’re only working with MIDI tracks but any audio work requires absolutely the lowest possible latency