The Sessionwire Receive plugin brings other people's HQ Audio into your DAW, where you can hear it, process it and record it. Before you set it up, it's worth knowing the best way to record someone remotely.

Record on the performer's side when you can

The best recording comes from the performer's own DAW. They record locally while you listen through Sessionwire and give notes, then they send you the files.

• Their recording is at full quality, straight from their interface, with nothing lost over the internet.
• It's in time with the track they played to, so it drops straight into your project.
• A dropout in the connection affects what you hear, not what gets recorded.

To work this way, both of you send HQ Audio with the Send plugin, and you turn on their HQ Audio so you can hear them.

If the performer would rather just play, you can drive their DAW for them with Remote Desktop Control: arm tracks, punch in and save, while they stay hands-free and focus on the performance. See Remote Desktop Control. See Hear a Guest's HQ Audio.

Recording with the Receive plugin

Recording on your side with the Receive plugin works, and it's handy for podcasts, voiceover and quick ideas. But know what you're recording:

• It arrives late. Your track travels to the performer, they play along, and their audio travels back to you. What you record is behind your track by that whole round trip, so you'll need to slide it back into place.
• It's what came over the internet. Any glitch or dropout in the connection is in the recording.
• Everyone is mixed together. The Receive plugin gets all the HQ Audio in the Studio mixed to one stereo feed. You can't record two people onto separate tracks this way.

Set up the Receive plugin

1. Turn on your Guest's HQ Audio in the Mixer.
2. In your DAW, create a stereo track and put the Sessionwire Receive plugin on it. Set the track's output to your speakers or headphones, so you can hear it.
3. In your Studio, set HQ Audio Destination to the Sessionwire Receive Plugin.
4. To record, send the Receive track to a new stereo audio track through an unused bus, and record-arm the new track.

REAPER is the only DAW that can record the Receive plugin's audio on the same track the plugin is on. See Use Sessionwire with REAPER.

Keep it out of your Send

If you're sending HQ Audio as well, make sure the Receive track doesn't feed the Send plugin. If it does, people hear themselves come back with a delay. The easy way is to put the Send plugin on its own cue mix bus instead of your main output. See Send your mix with the Send plugin.

Your DAW's setup guide in this category has the exact steps for your DAW.