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Old November 24th, 2000, 08:09 PM
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Well, all these are supported in Karaoke Pro, but not currently in Karaoke Home Producer. However, even in Karaoke Pro we don't support changing the font or italics/bold/shadow on the fly. That requires a "pallette change" in mid-stream, which will be very expensive to code and debug. To add pallette changing into Karaoke Home Producer is not likely for economic reasons. We currently don't have plans to add it to Karaoke Pro.

We are evaluating adding TrueType font selection, different point sizes, and color selection into Karaoke Home Producer. These are likely, but don't combine them with Pallette change. What I am talking about is selecting these settings for the entire song.

We made a design tradeoff at the start of Karaoke Home Producer to do SOLO only, not DUET. Your suggestion for bold, italic, normal, capitals, or underline would make DUET possible with our current technique. However, this would require the expensive upgrades: 1) Pallette change on the fly and, 2) Editing the synchronized lyrics database before exporting (there is no way a human can manually enter the pallette change font, type, attributes, etc. on the fly using the keyboard and have any kind of synchronization).

Editing the lyrics sweeping database would be an expensive addition for Karaoke Home Producer. FYI: Karaoke Pro has editing because it is built upon our Microeditor Digital Audio Workstaiton that already provided editing.