Comment by throaway45425

I just don't think the economics of this work. Software synths are just such cutthroat competition that there is no profit margin.

I have a Pittsburgh Modular TAIGA that cost $800. How much am I willing to pay for a software synth doing analog modeling? Basically nothing.

To get everyone a piece of the pie to make it worth it for this, it would cost the end user so much for the pie that no one would bother.

My experience with music collaboration is that the technical challenges have been minimal for a long time now. The challenges of collaboration are social and being on the same page musically. Even in the 90s, it wasn't hard to find people to make rock music with locally. The problem was always what was meant by "rock music" to begin with.

It is exactly the opposite problem of video games. It would be like the economics of video games if the goal was to team up to play video games no one else was playing.

I think this would only work if every musician's goal was to be Taylor Swift.