IPFS and Cakewalk Audio Recording
140 IPFS and Cakewalk Audio Recording
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140 IPFS AND CAKEWALK AUDIO RECORDING
Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I wanted to talk a little bit today about some of the audio chain stuff that I’ve been trying to put together in the podcasting studio that I’ve been building, I guess, but it’s fun. It’s just going to open the different pieces together. I’ve been trying to use cakewalk sonar more. And actually, that’s what I’m recording right now, which is kind of cool. I like using the program. It’s kind of interesting to use it a bit. Oh, interesting. I see what I’m doing a little bit more. I just kind of checking out like how stuff sort of moves around in it. But yeah, now I’m seeing it’s over on this other track. And then if you hear that, that’s the keyboard coming in. So what I’m trying to figure out how to do is do some multi tracking stuff in sonar with the audio interface that I have. So I have a two input two output USB interface with age four. And so the school each friend you can take out you know, in the field and record anywhere with the batteries and stuff just done the SD card, we’re just I’ve been doing a bunch of stuff. But you can also use it with the XLR inputs to do a left right input into the computer is like a two track to track piece. So yeah, that’s kind of cool. You can just yeah, just had to put in and work out or you know, have it connected to a computer and then have it be the audio interface. I’ve also got this, this 25 key, m audio key 42 and gigwalk. Also some piano plugins, a warm pad or some of this of synth effect thing, right now trying to figure out some way to make like a cool soundboard or something like that be fun. It’s probably just annoying in the background. But that’s stuff that I have been working on in the studio thinking about mixers and arms control pads and stuff. But it’s kind of fun stuff. So I’ve been checking out the ipfs network. I’ve been talking about it a few times before here on the podcast. But it stands for interplanetary file system. It’s kind of a cool way of sort of creating a distributed hash table now around an hour. it’s it’s it’s something where it’s like a distributed network instead of having like a server system. So I’ve been trying to set that up. It’s pretty complicated, but you can go to Siberia’s and download a program called Orion. And that’s like a browser that you can use to upload and then download, you know, send files back and forth over the ipfs network, which is pretty cool. It’s kind of interesting. So I downloaded it on a couple of computers here at home. And I was trying to use this, this key to connect the two of the nodes together. So you could kind of create, like a direct connection in the network. And I was trying to do this with a couple other computers I had around the house to to do some stuff. But But yeah, the ipfs node is pretty interesting. I’m trying to put up some media stuff onto that over the last couple days. I’ve been using this site called D sounds got audio. And I’m trying to upload a bunch of mp3 files of my podcasts. And it’s just kinda interesting to check it out. But yeah, it’s it looks like a lot like SoundCloud or something when you use it. But instead of any of those files existing on a website’s server, they exist distributed across the world, United States, I don’t know how far it’s really distributed yet. But those files are distributed on different computers. So it can be reproduced from from different areas of the network. It’s interesting, I don’t know, I’m kind of curious how it works out. I’m also using this video program, or video website called de dot tube, which I think is what it is. It’s supposed to really just be like a YouTube clone. And it works pretty well. It’s it’s not, I think, the full resolution and flow that YouTube is, but really as it goes, it’s it’s quite far along for what you would think to do with it. I’ve also been checking outbid shoot, which is another sort of YouTube video competitor, but they do a lot more with ads and with paid content. And I think that the D tube stuff is it seems like a little more homegrown in some ways, when you look at the website, but but as I consider it, I think it’s, you know, it’s ad-free. It’s crypto, decentralized, it’s really it’s interesting, like when you log in, you don’t really even use your email address or anything like that. It’s just, it’s this cryptographic key that you log in with. And that’s like your account data and if no one has it, so if you lose it, then it’s gone. I think forever,
you know, So it’s kind of cool, check it out, you can go to your page, you can go to upload media like you would on YouTube or so that it’s a little slower though it seems like that’s that’s definitely something that I was noticing. I’m trying to make an upload right now. And it’s going fine. But I think it’s a little bit slower than maybe some of the other the other like YouTube or something like that if you’re uploading a 10 NDP video, it’d be more robust as a service. This is definitely like something, some some piece of the internet that’s being made by people like you and me. So it’s, it’s kind of cool that it works at all, really. But yeah, I think these, these D tube sites and the sounds, sights are going to be kind of interesting media players. And not players like, but just interesting kind of media side features that that I think are kind of interesting, as people are starting to maybe consider moving away from centralized services like Facebook, and Microsoft, and apple and Amazon, and all that. So yeah, it’s gonna be Google. Yeah, YouTube, and Google and all that, but, but it’s cool, try to check out the ipfs stuff. And get it connected, I was trying to upload some videos that I have on my YouTube page right now. And trying to download a bunch of YouTube videos. Also, like I watch the YouTube videos that I have, there’s, there’s a couple different features out there, there’s like maybe one that you’ve heard before we put s s before the YouTube domain name. And that’ll send you over to a website called I think it’s like save form or something like that. And then you can, you can download sort of a lower resolution version of that, that file, which saved me a couple of things I helped me out a couple times, it was, you know, audio and video of it, you can download it, I think it was ad-free, that it’s as a website that kind of, you know, pushes you to buy stuff a lot, though, to think of the way the service works, as opposed to trying to check out this thing called the YouTube dash DLL, which was like a youtube downloader. So I was trying to go through and download some of the videos that I had on YouTube, but that I don’t really have like the same same clips from on my computer. So it’s cool to go through and check it out. too, but and was it D sounds distributed sounds. Distributed audio, it’s kind of cool. checking it out. So I’m uploading a video in the background right now on my laptop. It’s like a screen capture video working in Lightroom. And going through the editing of a photo. So I’m throwing that up there on the two, which is like, probably gonna take forever to upload, it’s kind of a larger, I think it’s like more than 10 minutes or something like that’s one gigabyte. So it’s like a bigger file for that network to take. So I think it takes like a little bit more time is cool, I’m trying it out. And I guess we’ll kind of see how it goes. It’s also cool, too, I guess you can just you can publish websites to the ipfs hash tables. Also, like if you write like a static HTML site, or an HTML CSS site, I guess you can package that and then upload that. And you will have a web link to go to that HTML site, and it will pull up like it was pulled up on a server, which is pretty interesting. I haven’t really learned quite enough about it yet. I’m trying to figure it out a little bit more, I want to try and get like some kind of distributed, distributed blog website up or you know, something where you can kind of update it a couple times, I think there’s another one called steep shot dot i O. That was this, this photo-sharing website that I was checking out, which is kind of cool. It’s still all these are still in alpha. I was having a hard time actually getting stuff to upload when I was using it. So it was kind of interesting, but I think it’s stuff that it kind of comes and goes as you’re sort of an early adopter of some of the services. But I’m gonna try and try and use steep shot.io to continue doing some stuff too. That’s another distributed photo-sharing site, which is kind of cool uses the, I think I think when you post a photo, it posts it to the blockchain ledger is still sort of something that’s out of my depth, it seems to me, but I think it’s kind of cool that you’re able to do stuff like that. And yeah, but put stuff up on the web and download it from the web without ever really going through a centralized service. So it’s kind of fun stuff. But in addition to that, I’ve been working on podcasting stuff I’ve been working here in the studio trying to get things going. I’ve been trying to get the the the keyboard rolling, I think I’ve got it kind of figured out now. So I’ve got the keyboard and MIDI controller rolling. And I’ve got my audio interface set up with the two channels, which is kind of cool. Trying to record into sonar right now, instead of Adobe Audition, which is interesting. I’m applying a couple live effects in the effects rack which is kind of cool are just kind of interesting, like get checkout
and stuff is you know, like how different services and stuff work and and yeah, it’s cool. cakewalk Lightroom was definitely built out to be a really capable multitrack recorder. I used it years ago, Stephen Scott and I were doing Scott and Robert. Were doing the studio audio studio stuff, trying to record and do like multitrack band recording and stuff that was really fun, really interesting, but we all use sonar for that, to kind of do the multi-tracking for podcast recording, it’s probably a lot of overkill, you know, like, a whole bunch of different different tracks set up to record, you know, eight or 16 tracks of a band for for just recording one track of audio for a podcast and then maybe putting some some music that underneath it. I think it’s, it’s working pretty well for that system right now. But yeah, it’s cool. Trying to get into the audio stuff, getting a computer set up with it, having the keyboard setup is pretty fun, too. I also trying to look at audio, or what is it like studio furniture seven trying to like get the studio set up. And it’s cool to get the door guy, let’s go one of my bangs, but I’m trying to, like go around and I was looking at Yeah, like pictures on Google of different console desks, you’d probably look that up like audio console desk or audio studio console, or something like that. And you’ll get pictures of just these seems like really, really cool furniture desks, you know, like it’s a built out desk that in the middle of it is sort of lowered so you can slide in this big 32 channel, console mixer into it. And then on either side, you have all your control panels and stuff, you have your shelf with your computer monitor or whatever above. And then you have all of your control racks, your studio monitors like your big studio monitor speakers up on the sides kind of raised up against it. But it was cool. Yeah, kind of going through and seeing like the different kind of outboard gear that people put into their studios and stuff. And I thought it was kind of interesting, you know, when I was looking at Radio studios to and even back in my time of working in a radio station, aka LDR. It was an it was just interesting. Like they really radio stations don’t have a lot going on. It’s cool if they had a little bit of money and they were able to buy out like a studio or have a couple of production rooms or something like that. But really, man, a lot of the time when I look at some of the studio equipment, it’s just sort of a felt-covered desk with you know, some electronics box looks sort of like an amplifier. And then a headphone and a microphone coming out of it with like a yellow legal pad and just a couple of cables on and off the side of a desk. But it just looks like you know, it’s in some some fluorescent-lit room with you know, just just had I don’t know, there’s like a guy doing a remote. I remember back in the day, radio remotes used to be sort of like a big deal. You know, you do it for the marketing of it. And I was at an event a couple was maybe two years ago now. Wow. Yeah, two years ago, I was at one of the football events. And they had a radio remote there. I was doing like a photo thing at a booth there, and they told me like oh yeah, like this, this radio stations coming in to do a radio demo. They’re going to be set up right behind us like Oh, cool. That’ll be like a thing you know, I remember doing radio remotes how to do sticker stops, right so I had a van had like a big you know, colored branded wrapped a van with like a orange light on it that would drive around and give out free Dutch Bros or something like that to people driving around. There’s just sort of a radio promotion thing. You know, you park it the light on in and out stuff. You know, it’s kind of like an marketing implementation. And this was just like it was an old guy at an old guy, I think his wife at a table with their iPhone. And they had like, I’m serious. I think they just had their like headphones like they just their white iPod headphones in and they’d called the station and they were just they were just talking and that was it. Not as fun as it used to be Yeah. So radio remotes are nowhere, I guess, what they used to be, or you know, radio stations and all that even podcast TVs and stuff, and you look around at some of those. It’s all had a podcast equipment, a lot of podcast, production stuff is I guess pretty limited in what they’re able to do and a lot of people are using like audacity, maybe this h4 n that I’m using to that’s that’s one of the common common audio recorder interface pieces but it’s cool. I like I like running it just to the SD card that works really well and I’m also finding out that I like it a lot to run in running the audio into the computer as an interface you know that to USB interface. I think it’s working better than I thought it was. So I was going to talk about right now. Well right now it’s 3:55am. I’ve been up for a while.
And it’s kind of become like a standard schedule on those for me kind of waking up maybe around three or four in the morning. Maybe Getting back to bed around six but but really probably a lot of time, it’s just getting ready for work and sort of starting to get on with the day. So it’s kind of interesting, waking up super early. But it’s nice to there’s, you know, nothing going on right now to distract me from doing some recording and some podcasting stuff, which is kind of fun to do about gas, but I was trying to figure out some other stuff. So I’ve been get back into the photo stuff, which I haven’t really talked about much other than just audio recording and setting up and network. That’s exciting photo news. So as the photo stuff goes, have been been busy been working a lot, I just finished up a wedding this last week finished up some other client work, which I’m pretty busy with most of the time, but I’m not doing as much I guess, like personal photo stuff as I want to do right now. So I want to try and get out of my camera and kind of fit in some, just some fun trips out, you know, like, kind of go over to the there’s a river area that I want to check out. And there’s also like a couple kind of hiking areas that I want to go over to and check out to do some I just kind of simple photo stuff, but really is like the bigger like higher scale photo stuff goes. I really want to get out of town headed toward like Eastern Oregon, and I’ve been trying to set up some plans to do some camping stuff. It’s already like probably like mid summer now. Yeah, so we’ve been in it for a little while getting through the summer experience. But I want to try and do some more camping stuff. And that’s like a big push for big push for August this year, August, September, and probably October too. I want to try and get out and do as much as much outdoor stuff as I can. Yeah, okay, cool. So I got got August coming up, and the rest of the Indian summer so there might have after that check out. So that’ll probably wrap up