[George]

Mark,

No, Microstudio won't separate the graphics from the audio.

You could copy just the audio as an audio file to the hard drive with Microstudio. Then use Goldwave to set the audio level paramaters you wish.

You won't be able to combine it back with the original graphics, but you can use the altered audio file to make your own professional looking cdg with MTU's Karaoke Home Producer.

With Karaoke Home Producer, you type the lyrics into Wordpad or Notepad.You set up the graphics any way you wish, acccording to your own tastes; border color, background color,etc. You add title page, credits page, including graphic images of your choice, sweep the lyrics in sync to the music, and produce your own CDG.

If you ran each audio file through Goldwave using the same audio level settings, the finished Karaoke cd will have level volumes, and a whale of a lot better looking cdg disc that a lot of the commercial stuff you pay good money for..

This also takes a cdg capable burner. MTU certifies the burners they sell to work with their software. Not all burners even of the same brand will handle cdg, it's the luck of the draw, so be careful if you buy from another source.

You don't have to use expensive cdg's as a music source. Some of us are downloading free MIDI files, using Edirol Sound Canvas to alter the instrumentation to suite ourselves, vastly improving the sound, converting the file to regular audio, then creating our own cdg's from scratch with Karaoke Home Producer.

You can get a feel for this in the Karaoke Home Producer Forums.

You are experiencing the "user friendly" product that Microstudio is. All the MTU products are designed to be used with ease.

Glad you got things working. Have fun, and welcome to the gang!

Take care,

George