[jahern]

I understand that Songbird has found the best solution for Songbird. Good Luck with your show.

I still have a few results that I think might be of interest.

I created two short sound effects files as CDG as follows:


1. I took a 2 second wave from the internet, added 3 seconds to it and made sure that it was 44mhz, 16 bit stereo. I had a 5 to 6 second wave file.

2. In Khpro I followed the steps and imported to cdg. (There is a graphic)

Without my wishing it, KHPRO added about a 3 second lead in, which of course is no problem for singing a song, but is unsatisfactory for an immediate sound effect. The final CDG file was about 9 seconds long.

Microstudio had no problem playing the file

3. I created a disc of the wave file, and in Microstudio imported the track as CDG. (There is no graphic)

I had a 5 second "CDG" file

The sound was immediate when played by Microstudio, but afterward the program wanted to shut down. (The file was still too short?)


Both files burned onto a karaoke disc. Playback using normal audio cd player software was similar to play back of the files. Player software still took a little time to cue up the tracks. Microstudio took several seconds to cue up the songs on disc as Karaoke.

Not sure what the need is for a cdg sound effect.
If on the same cd one wanted to show karaoke songs and also slip in a sound effect or two. Otherwise, life would probably be simpler keeping these things on separate discs.