1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:13,780 Welcome, everybody, to the Podcast Answers Podcast, the show where I help you start and 2 00:00:13,780 --> 00:00:18,760 grow your podcast, all while answering podcasting questions along the way. 3 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:25,960 And today is a special day. We are talking about Rode and RodeCaster and RodeCaster Pro 4 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:31,980 and Duo and the new virtual channels that are there that weren't there before. So this 5 00:00:31,980 --> 00:00:35,600 is something that's actually been a long time in the making. 6 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,400 And it is something that that Rode kind of hinted at, I don't know, like a year, five 7 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,680 years, I don't know, a long time ago. And they so essentially, the idea is you already 8 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:55,560 had three USB channels on the device, you had a USB main, you had a USB, one chat, and 9 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:01,360 a USB two, and those are all bi directional, they had inputs and outputs. So you could, 10 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:06,800 you could you could mix minus that. And you could do things like have a zoom call, have 11 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:14,400 a ECAMM live call, whatever, and not hit it, not not, you know, have the audio going one 12 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,440 way out and one way in using a mix minus. 13 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:22,140 And it was great for doing interviews and things like that. But the the streamers who 14 00:01:22,140 --> 00:01:27,640 do like live gaming and things like that, were crying for more virtual channels. And 15 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,460 to be honest, I didn't quite get that. Because I was like, Okay, so I have USB one, which 16 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:40,780 is my in and out for my ECAMM. I had USB chat, which I use for zoom. And then I had a free 17 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:46,640 USB, second second USB, which I still also had plugged into my computer. But I wasn't 18 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,800 even really using it a whole lot. I you know, I'm using loopback, which allows you to aggregate 19 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:56,740 device aggregate software into a virtual output. And, and I was using that to kind of bring 20 00:01:56,740 --> 00:02:02,920 whatever I wanted to bring virtually into that that third channel. But yesterday, wrote 21 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:10,740 announced on the beta program that there is new capabilities to have four additional inputs 22 00:02:10,740 --> 00:02:11,740 to your roadcaster. 23 00:02:11,740 --> 00:02:18,160 Now these are just inputs, these are not in and out. These are just inputs. And, and so 24 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:25,220 I do want to warn you, this is a beta version, beta, beta, beta, beta, beta. So again, if 25 00:02:25,220 --> 00:02:30,340 you're not cool with running beta programs, and the possibility of it having problems 26 00:02:30,340 --> 00:02:35,400 on your live stream, or your recording or your podcast or whatever, I would not do that 27 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,720 for this because this is something that that could crash. In fact, I right as I started 28 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:49,400 this this podcast episode, I ended up having it crash my the roadcaster pro to main multitrack 29 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:57,540 was not showing up. And so I had to unplug it and plug it back in and it showed up. So 30 00:02:57,540 --> 00:03:00,960 this is part of the beta program. So you do need to join the beta and you can find those 31 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,280 instructions on the internet to join the beta. 32 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,420 The one thing that I was a little bit disappointed though, was that they said this is at this 33 00:03:08,420 --> 00:03:13,200 time only for Windows. So you could get you could update the firmware, like I'm running 34 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:20,820 the beta firmware on my roadcaster here. And, and I could get that I could get the the software, 35 00:03:20,820 --> 00:03:28,660 the firmware for this device. But but I couldn't take use of it in my Mac because I'm using 36 00:03:28,660 --> 00:03:36,460 a Mac. And so I did find a hack about that will work, you do have to have some extra 37 00:03:36,460 --> 00:03:40,760 software, possibly maybe, maybe not. I mean, you may have some software that you can use. 38 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:47,800 But the idea of of how to use it for Windows was really kind of easy. So what you do is 39 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:54,000 you go ahead and to put your your roadcaster into this mode, you essentially go into the 40 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:01,620 once you've downloaded the firmware, you go into the settings and you go into outputs. 41 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:04,820 And I'm not able to do it now because I'm actually recording but multitrack and then 42 00:04:04,820 --> 00:04:12,100 you say USB one output. And you can turn extra, I'm sorry, inputs and you can turn extra inputs 43 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:17,500 on under the multitrack once you once you've installed this, this beta firmware. And so 44 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:24,540 essentially, for Windows, what you end up doing is you use turn that on and then you 45 00:04:24,540 --> 00:04:31,660 download a driver for Windows and then you you assign it to so you assign the virtual 46 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:37,780 devices to a channel. So for instance, here under this channel here, I have the A one 47 00:04:37,780 --> 00:04:41,900 and you can go into again, I can't do it because I'm actually recording right now. But what 48 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:46,700 you do is you assign that to a fader. So I've assigned as you can see, I've assigned a to 49 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:51,480 this will not that fader sorry, this fader here, this is a and so you essentially you 50 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:56,340 have four virtual channels and the one is going to be they're called that doesn't really 51 00:04:56,340 --> 00:05:00,100 matter what you do with them because they're they're all the same. They're all inputs, 52 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:05,580 they have a be gaming and music. And so if you can see here, they I've got like a music 53 00:05:05,580 --> 00:05:11,860 icon, a game icon, an A and a B. Those are the new four virtual channels that exist on 54 00:05:11,860 --> 00:05:15,820 on the new road caster. And so once you've assigned up to a fader, whether it be virtual 55 00:05:15,820 --> 00:05:21,380 or fader or physical fader, for Windows, you go in and you use it, you essentially go into 56 00:05:21,380 --> 00:05:27,580 the the sound panels and do advanced settings after you've installed the driver. And then 57 00:05:27,580 --> 00:05:33,220 you you can it lists all of your software that's running out and you can tell it what 58 00:05:33,220 --> 00:05:39,300 output to use for that specific one. So if you want to for your game, assign your game 59 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:48,020 to have its output be the road caster game, then it will it will do that. But what it 60 00:05:48,020 --> 00:05:54,700 can't. So you know, you can assign the things like that. But for for Mac, we don't have 61 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:58,660 the ability to do that. They don't have the new updated driver. But what I did notice 62 00:05:58,660 --> 00:06:02,780 and I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and kind of get a little bit geeky here. So I 63 00:06:02,780 --> 00:06:09,180 I'm running the software called. Hold on a second. I messed that video up when I when 64 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:17,260 I did that somehow I. Did something wrong. OK, hold on. We're going to get there eventually. 65 00:06:17,260 --> 00:06:26,420 OK, here we go. No, no, I can't see my screen. This is the process of doing this all live. 66 00:06:26,420 --> 00:06:32,300 It it is is a little bit of a problem, but we'll get it there eventually. It's the wrong 67 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:38,180 thing. Wrong thing. Wrong thing. There we go. All right. So there we go. You get to 68 00:06:38,180 --> 00:06:43,100 see behind the scenes. So this is so I'm using a software called Loopback. And the reason 69 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:47,740 I use Loopback before was to kind of aggregate different devices together, create virtual 70 00:06:47,740 --> 00:06:53,700 devices. But what I did notice. So essentially, you can have inputs and output like a virtual 71 00:06:53,700 --> 00:07:01,140 output, then you can monitor it. So what I did is I added the RODECaster Pro main multitrack 72 00:07:01,140 --> 00:07:06,220 to it. And before I updated to the newest firmware, it just had a left and a right channel 73 00:07:06,220 --> 00:07:07,220 output. 74 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:14,580 But now it actually had input to it. But now it actually has 10 different channels. And 75 00:07:14,580 --> 00:07:21,060 so what I what I I've been able to do is I've been able to figure out what those channels 76 00:07:21,060 --> 00:07:28,220 are. So what I've done is I've created a loopback device called RODECaster virtual channels. 77 00:07:28,220 --> 00:07:32,340 And then I've done things like music and I map that through to channel five and six and 78 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:39,420 I map that out to five and six on the RODECaster and that ends up coming into the music channel. 79 00:07:39,420 --> 00:07:43,980 So I can use those channels again. I had to have the RODECaster software, sorry, the loopback 80 00:07:43,980 --> 00:07:49,100 software because I didn't I wasn't able to do it just natively like you can in Windows 81 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:53,300 yet. But with the loopback software, I was able to essentially take any inputs. 82 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:57,420 So let's say, for instance, so here's the mapping. So one and two are the same. The 83 00:07:57,420 --> 00:08:02,860 main multi track that we've always had three and four are the game left and right. Five 84 00:08:02,860 --> 00:08:07,840 and six are the music left and right. Seven and eight are the A left and right and nine 85 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:12,280 and 10 are the B left and right. So let's just say that I wanted to take and I wanted 86 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:20,420 to put Firefox into a channel, let's say B. So what I would do is I would delete the mappings 87 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:25,260 that it automatically maps. And I'm going to say B, so that's nine and 10. So what I'm 88 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:33,640 doing is I go nine and 10. And now when I play something through Firefox, it goes out 89 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:39,220 virtual channel nine and 10 and into the RODECaster virtual or nine and 10, which also shows up 90 00:08:39,220 --> 00:08:44,420 as the B. So that's the way I can control different software going to different places 91 00:08:44,420 --> 00:08:51,940 with with with the Mac. Again, you have to have loopback and loopback is a paid program, 92 00:08:51,940 --> 00:08:56,400 but it is definitely worth it because you can you can use this update now. What the 93 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,360 other thing you can do too is any software that you have that has the channel mapping 94 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,940 on it, you can use it too. So not every software allows you to choose what channels but like 95 00:09:04,940 --> 00:09:13,660 something like Ferrari, Ferrago, I can choose the main multi track RODECaster. And then 96 00:09:13,660 --> 00:09:17,340 I can choose which channels to put it out on first, you know, specific things or the 97 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:23,920 whole the whole program. So I could hear say I wanted five and six and five and six are 98 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:30,140 going to show up as the music left and right for my RODECaster. So that those two those 99 00:09:30,140 --> 00:09:36,500 two ways are ways that you can you can use your RODECaster right now with your Mac, with 100 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:42,280 the beta software and assign it to the new virtual channels that that we've that I've 101 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:51,240 talked about earlier. So the you know, the a, the B, the game and the music with the 102 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,740 programs like loopback or Ferrago, something that allows you to choose the channels to 103 00:09:55,740 --> 00:10:02,160 output, you can use your your virtual, the new virtual channels on the RODECaster right 104 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:08,020 now. So this is really exciting. This is really super exciting in when it comes to things 105 00:10:08,020 --> 00:10:14,480 for for podcasting, because you now essentially have you had three channels before and now 106 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:20,620 you're adding four more for a total, you know, four, four, five, six, seven, you have seven 107 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:23,720 virtual outputs now on our virtual in and outs. 108 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,420 USB is coming from your computer that you can do in your RODECaster. So you can assign 109 00:10:28,420 --> 00:10:34,960 different software to have inputs right now on your RODECaster. And it's really, really 110 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,120 cool if you guys have any questions for me, I know that I see that people are watching 111 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,240 on YouTube right now, type them in the chat, I can, I can try to answer those for you right 112 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:50,120 now. But again, this is with the beta software that road released yesterday. It allows you 113 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:56,960 to actually have four new virtual channels, virtual USB inputs. These are inputs only 114 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:03,980 not input and output like the previous three were. But you now have four extra inputs into 115 00:11:03,980 --> 00:11:08,220 your RODECaster that you can use for other software, any software. 116 00:11:08,220 --> 00:11:13,400 So something like playing music, playing your games, whatever you want, they're labeled 117 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:19,600 a B game and music. But they, they're all of the same, they're all the same, they're 118 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:25,040 all virtual inputs. And, and, and you can see on my RODECaster here now that I have 119 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:30,760 them set up, and they have different icons, so A and B, and as well as the game, and then 120 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,320 the music, but they can be really used for anything that you want. They don't have to 121 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:40,680 be used for those specific tasks, but you can bring in whatever you want. You can bring 122 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:48,380 in any software. And again, this is for right now, windows only, but I did find the hack 123 00:11:48,380 --> 00:11:56,420 that allowed that allowed you to do it. And the hack would be using something like using 124 00:11:56,420 --> 00:12:05,980 something like the, using something like a loopback loop back here, which allows you 125 00:12:05,980 --> 00:12:11,980 to map any software into any of the channels on the RODECaster output now. 126 00:12:11,980 --> 00:12:19,420 So again, I explained USB one or sorry, one and two output are USB one main left and right 127 00:12:19,420 --> 00:12:24,100 three and four are the game left and right five and six are the music left and right 128 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:30,440 a is left or sorry, seven and eight is a left and right and nine and 10 is B left and right. 129 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,900 So that's the way you can assign that. Or you can also use something like for Rago or 130 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:41,080 other channels or other software that allows you to choose the actual output channels of 131 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:48,680 the device that you're using. You can then go ahead and and be able to assign those to 132 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:58,460 that. So again, this is really cool because you now have seven inputs into your, into 133 00:12:58,460 --> 00:13:03,320 your RODECaster. You have the three that were there before and you have four new virtual 134 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:12,900 inputs that you can put in and attach to any of the, any of the faders that are on the 135 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:19,800 RODECaster you can assign to any of the devices. So this is, this is really cool guys. If you 136 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,760 have any podcasting questions that you'd like me to answer, I, I that's what I do. I answer 137 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,900 podcasting questions and help you start and grow your show. 138 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:33,260 So if you have any questions, I would love to talk to you. You can get in contact with 139 00:13:33,260 --> 00:13:39,860 me over at podcastanswers.com/contact, and that'll get you in contact with me so I can 140 00:13:39,860 --> 00:13:45,040 help you start, grow, answer any podcasting questions that you have. I love helping podcasters. 141 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:52,580 So again, that's podcastanswers.com/contact will get you over to me and, and yeah, I'd 142 00:13:52,580 --> 00:13:58,620 love to help you out with any of the questions that you have for podcasting guys. Whoop. 143 00:13:58,620 --> 00:14:03,500 I just realized that messed my thing up. We got, wow. I'm, I'm really having trouble today. 144 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:06,460 All of my new scenes, I've got different scenes in here, so have a great week.