Spout is a real time Cloud-based recording and collaboration platform for the professional music industry. Spout leverages the scalability and efficiency of cloud storage in order to bring the recording experience very close to real-time. Spout provides an easy-to-use recording interface, allowing people to collaborate wherever they are in the world. This service is hardware and software agnostic - enabling plug-and-play experiences without being bound to costly hardware or software.Cloud-based recording has been prized and pursued for a couple years. What Spout is doing that is critical is providing hardware and software agnostic professional recording tools for real time co-located collaboration and recording. Spout integrates a robust media server tool, ability to use all sound file types, and an easy to use digital audio workstation (DAW) that provides previously unrealized revenue for the professional recording industry - whether enterprise of home recording studio. No additional hardware or software to purchase or download, platform agnostic that allows all DAW solutions (ProTools, Logic, Cubase, etc) to collaborate together. By focusing on a commercial solution first, testing, vetting, and endorsement by industry professionals will provide additional opportunity upon engaging the consumer market.