Prodrooms and Discord Go Live
Screen sharing inside a voice channel, for an audience.
What Discord Go Live is for
Discord Go Live shares a window or a screen to the people in a voice channel, with the chat and the community Discord already has. It is where a lot of producers already hang out, and it is a fine way to show a session to friends.
The shape of the two
| Discord Go Live | Prodrooms | |
|---|---|---|
| The picture | A shared window or screen, for watching. | The DAW window, for watching and for reaching in. |
| Control | None: viewers watch. | Guests take turns at the host's real mouse and keyboard. |
| Sound | Application or system audio in the share. | The DAW alone, tuned for music rather than voice, in the same stream. |
| The other end installs | Discord, or the browser client. | Nothing. Guests join in a browser. |
| Where people find each other | Your server. | A board of live rooms, schedules, crews and profiles; a Discord server can still be the home of a crew. |
| Built for | Communities talking and watching. | Sessions where the room does something to the project. |
Prices, limits and features on the other side change without telling us; check them on that product's own site. Nothing here is a score.
Where Prodrooms fits. Prodrooms fits when watching is not enough: someone should be able to grab the controls for a bar or two, and the host should be able to take them straight back.
Where Discord Go Live fits. Discord Go Live fits when the point is showing a session to a community that already lives on Discord, with nobody else at the controls.