Muse is a collaboration platform for music creators. Think of it like Zoom for musicians. You can record, produce, and collaborate in real-time, just like you do in-person. Muse comes with plugins, audio drivers, and MIDI drivers that help you make music online with any DAW.
Each user’s internet speed and computer will have an effect on latency, making it difficult to play in sync over the Internet. However, if in the same location and connected to the same network, Muse is a great way to wirelessly connect everyone's devices, without the hassle of extra equipment. With fast enough internet, you can stream high quality audio or MIDI directly over the network with no audible latency.
Yes! When you follow a session invitation link, click "join as guest." You'll be able to join from select mobile browsers. Features will be limited but this is great to join a quick listening session.
There are a few reasons why you might hear an echo with Muse.
1. You're using external speakers to play audio, and it's coming back into your microphone.
2. Your microphone is set to a high quality option.
3. Other audio streams are sharing a Pro Audio option.
For each case, wearing headphones will fix the issue. You can also enable push-to-talk on your microphone (T button in the Muse sidebar) and use it like a talkback microphone.
Another solution is to only use Standard Audio quality options for every device. Standard audio has built-in noise reduction, but will stream lower quality audio.
If you are still running into issues, contact support here.
The more users you have in your session, the more work your computer will need to do. Each additional audio device you share will add more stress on your machine. Things will get busier if you share high quality audio, video, and share your screen all while using a heavy DAW to process your plugins and audio. For now, we don't recommend more than 4 collaborators in your session unless your computer can handle heavy loads. If you have 4 collaborators or less in your session and are still experiencing lag or notice your computer getting too slow, start by lowering the video quality settings in Muse's Video Settings, or turn off any video feeds being shared with the session. To optimize performance, we recommend only sharing devices as you need them, and to remove devices not being used.
Make sure that drift correction is enabled for the Muse Audio Share device if using Muse Multi-Output. You can see how to properly setup the Multi-Output device in the Advanced Audio Settings Tutorial here.
If you want to send MIDI to the session, select your MIDI device from the list of MIDI inputs in Muse's MIDI settings.
If you want to receive MIDI data, verify that the Muse MIDI Output device is enabled in your DAW’s MIDI settings, and that the MIDI indicator is visible in the sidebar under the user’s shared devices. You can follow the 'Playing/Recording MIDI' section of the Feature Overview Tutorial here.
To share files with the session, simply drag and drop the file onto the chatbox. To download, click the file within the chatbox. You can see where the file was downloaded on your machine, or simply drag it from the chat into your DAW/desired location. You can follow the 'Chat/File Sharing' section of the Feature Overview Tutorial here.
Yes! If you want to allow a user to control your screen, start by sharing a screen with the session. To request control of your screen, a user needs to click on your shared video feed and click "Request Control" and you can give them access. You can follow the 'Screen Sharing/Screen Control' section of the Feature Overview Tutorial here.
There are multiple ways to record audio. Follow the recording tutorials here.
There might be a few reasons why you don't see your microphone.
1. If you don't see your microphone in the input list, click the "Audio" tab in Muse's settings, then click "Show all audio devices" under Advanced Audio Settings. Once you do that, check to see if your microphone is now visible in the list, and that you can select it.
2. Make sure that your microphone permissions are enabled for Muse. You can do this by opening your Mac "System Preferences", selecting "Security & Privacy", and click into the "Privacy" tab. Click the lock icon at the bottom left to make changes, and in the list to the left, scroll down and click "Microphone" to see the permissions. Then in the list to the right, make sure Muse is selected so it has permissions.
If you are still running into problems detecting your microphone, contact support here.
Please submit all bug reports, suggestions, feedback, or feature requests here.
