Wayv
An app to help facilitate songwriters, producers, and music industry folks improve collaboration
A hub for all of your songwriting projects
Being a collaborative songwriter can be a sort of versioning and file repo nightmare. Whether its as an artist working on your own releases, or as a producer or songwriter-for-hire collaborating with artists, industry stakeholders, and A&Rs. Creating a central hub for all of your bounced audio and it's feedback would create a much needed clarity in an already frenetic, file heavy workflow.
Feedback and Iteration
One of the most common ways producers, bandmates, or collaborating songwriters have given feedback in the past has been pretty rudimentary. You send a text or hosted-file link to a mix or idea of a song — and then thru painstaking back and forth call out individual things you'd like to tweak. The snare at 2:00 in the middle of the chorus is hitting too loud, or the synth later during an intro needs to be adjusted. Instead of referencing text messages, digging up emails or having to create a personal note of feedback, a collaborative place to comment on specific parts of an audio file would create a fast and easy to reference place with all current song feedback.
Permissions Based Sharing
Leaks have always been a thorn in the music industry's side. They usually happen in the iteration phase, where demos and versions are getting passed back and forth. Permissions based sharing and collaboration would allow you to keep the reins tight on who is seeing what and which version of a track. Demo not ready for mastering? Granular permissions would allow even version controlled versions of songs to be shared to those on your team, when they're ready to be shared.
Song Banks & Version History
Quickly be able to reference bounce history without a huge file repo, and lower the risk of cool ideas getting lost in the fray. Tab thru and listen to all past iterations of a track and its notes without having to dig thru swathes of files on your drive.
The Player
Seamlessly play and expand feedback on all versions of your songs from anywhere within the app.
Passing the "Car Test"
Mobile functionality is an absolutely vital piece of the songwriting, producing, and mixing workflow. Listen to and test your mix versions on any device, anywhere. No more airdropping, texting wav files, or digging thru your email to listen to your 8th round of mix notes on your car speakers.
*It was a personal goal and pain-point for me as a songwriter to be able to fluidly playlist your tracks to auto play thru a song selection as if you're listening to a record for the listener's perspective, and all of the current tools on the marketplace either do not offer this, or offer clunky experiences that leave you super frustrated. I wanted to be able to get into my car, and jam thru all the versions of a mix.
Industry collaboration, files, and additional tools
Having a hub doesn't have to end with just song files and mix notes. Collaborate on artwork versions with industry team members and labels, assign band member tasks, and store related files and midi, and keep track of songwriting documents and splits all within individual song banks. A single source of reference for each release.
Additional Tools and QOL
Robust status and labeling to keep tabs on your mixes and easily let your team know the current status and version of a song you're working on.
