An update to 37-year-old MIDI
Is there any reason why music production in the cloud isn't the standard yet?<p>High-quality VSTs requiree a lot of CPU power. Even my 16-inch MBP easily heats up once I add some more advanced VSTs.<p>I would rather pay X$ per month and have my music production work station in the cloud and interact with it from any old device with a fast internet connection.<p>Working with a buffer size of 512 samples, I currently have a latency of 11.6ms in Ableton. Adding another 10ms latency through the internet connection wouldn't be a drama for me.<p>Working in the cloud would allow me to easily upgrade or downgrade my system based on my needs, better collaboration with others, automatic backups, one-click access to new VSTs and samples, etc.<p>This set up would probably be less ideal for people who actually have to record a lot of 'real' instruments but a lot of music is only created in the box today with VSTs.<p>But I'm surely missing something here. Why hasn't this been a trend yet?