System and method for creating a cloud-based at-home recording studio
A cloud-based recording studio infrastructure includes a remote recording studio system including a cloud computing module configured to instantiate a virtual machine instance associated with a user and dynamically provision computing resources to the virtual machine instance associated with the user, the virtual machine instance associated with the user being configured as a music production environment, a cloud storage module configured to manage a cloud storage network, store an uploaded file from the user to the cloud storage network, and restrict access to one or more resources stored on the cloud storage network to the virtual machine instance associated with the user, and a connection manager module configured to authenticate the user and manage access to the virtual machine instance associated with the user.
1 . A cloud-based recording studio infrastructure, comprising:
A host server network comprising a processing unit, a memory, and a storage unit, the storage unit being configured to store and execute a set of instructions configured to, when executed by the processing unit of the host server network, cause the host server network to instantiate a remote recording studio system comprising:
a cloud computing module configured to instantiate a virtual machine instance associated with a user and dynamically provision computing resources to the virtual machine instance associated with the user, the virtual machine instance associated with the user being configured as a music production environment configured to be simultaneously accessed by the user and one or more secondary users;
a cloud storage module configured to manage a cloud storage network, store an uploaded file from the user to the cloud storage network, and restrict access to one or more resources stored on the cloud storage network to the virtual machine instance associated with the user; and
a connection manager module configured to authenticate the user and the one or more secondary users and manage access to the virtual machine instance associated with the user.
2 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the one or more secondary users is a recording professional and the connection manager module is further configured to authenticate the recording professional and manage access by the recording professional to the virtual machine instance associated with the user.
3 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 2 , wherein the connection manager module is further configured to manage simultaneous access by the user and at least one of the one or more secondary users to the virtual machine instance associated with the user.
4 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 3 , wherein the remote recording studio system further comprises:
a collaboration module configured to provide a near real-time audio connection between the user and at least one of the one or more secondary users alongside the simultaneous access by the user and at least one of the one or more secondary users to the virtual machine instance associated with the user.
5 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 1 , wherein the cloud storage module is further configured to associate an uploaded file from the user with the user and restrict further access to the uploaded file from the user to only the virtual machine instance associated with the user.
6 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit of the host server network comprises:
a plurality of multi-core graphics processing units (GPUs) configured to operate in parallel to carry out the operations of the cloud-based recording studio infrastructure.
7 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 1 , wherein the music production environment is configured to run one or more digital audio workstations (DAWs).
8 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 7 , wherein the music production environment is further configured to run one or more video editing programs alongside the one or more DAWs.
9 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 1 , wherein the cloud computing module is configured to dynamically provision computing resources to the virtual machine instance associated with the user according to a file-size parameter and a file-number parameter being operated on within the music production environment to maintain an expected-response-time parameter for the music production environment at or below a predetermined threshold value.
10 . The cloud-based recording studio infrastructure of claim 1 , wherein the remote recording studio system further comprises a tokenization module configured to associate a user-associated file with a unique digital identifier stored in a record on a blockchain.
11 . A cloud-based music production system, comprising:
a first remote computing device configured with an audio capture program;
a microphone configured to communicatively connect to the first remote computing device;
a cloud storage network configured to be accessible to the first remote computing device;
a cloud-based recording studio infrastructure configured to instantiate a virtual machine instance associated with a user running a digital audio workstation and further configured to allow simultaneous remote access to the virtual machine instance to the first remote computing device and a second remote computing device.
12 . The cloud-based music production system of claim 11 , wherein the cloud-based recording studio infrastructure is further configured to store one or more session files recording a state of the virtual machine instance to the cloud storage network automatically upon a termination event of the virtual machine instance.
13 . The cloud-based music production system of claim 12 , wherein the cloud-based recording studio infrastructure is further configured to load the one or more session files from the cloud storage network and instantiate the virtual machine instance at the previously recorded state of the virtual machine instance.
14 . The cloud-based music production system of claim 11 , wherein
the second remote computing device is associated with a second user and is configured to remotely access the virtual machine instance associated with the first user.
15 . The cloud-based music production system of claim 11 , further comprising:
a headphone configured to communicatively connect to the first remote computing device.
16 . The cloud-based music production system of claim 11 , wherein the cloud-based recording studio infrastructure is further configured to dynamically provision one or more cloud resources to the virtual machine instance and record a resource usage metric for the virtual machine instance to the cloud storage network.