‘The Cloud’ is used to refer to any internet based storage solution. As internet upload and download speeds have increased, this type of service has become more and more useful.
Any kind of file can be stored in the cloud, as long as it can be uploaded via an internet connection.

As the files are accessed via the internet, they can be accessed from anywhere in the world that has a connection. This has revolutionised collaboration in many industries, for example a producer in London can upload a file to their cloud storage and share it with another producer in Los Angeles. Their co-producer can continue working on the file immediately, and can share it back when ready.

An added bonus is that the storage used by the Cloud service provider will almost certainly be backed up regularly. This means that if you lose a file, they will be able to help you recover it, in some cases almost instantly.

This makes long distance collaboration fast and effective.

However, even a very fast internet connection will not operate quickly enough to stream 24 tracks of high quality audio in real time. Therefore, all files must be downloaded to continue working on them. This can still cause a problem if one of the producer’s internet connections is slow.

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