[George]

Update.

Now the downside mentioned above regarding not having an interesting enough background to supplement an instrumental break is past history.

So are countdowns where there are no intro.

Using Goldwave, or any appropriate audio editor you can create a Karaoke track any way you want it.

For example, after having created an instrumental track and a Karaoke track per the above post, if there's no intro, load the full instrumental track you saved , locate a bit of music that would be an appropriate intro, extract, save, copy and paste it (according to the method used in your editing software) to the beginning of both the full instrumentation and karaoke files, and....goodbye countown. You now have an intro.

If you want to put an instrument break anywhere in the karaoke file that doesn't have one, find the portion you wish to use as an instrumental break in the full version. Follow the procedure used in your editing program and save that piece into a separate file. Take extreme care to make an accurate note of the location of the beginning and ending reference points of the track you just created.

Now once again, depending on how your editing software functions, delete the exact same parameters out of the Karaoke track and replace it with the instrumental track you extracted from the full instrumental.

If you take care to keep everything in place as it should be you can still use the method outlined in the prior post to sweep the instrumental track and convert it to a karaoke track because both files will be the same length, or at least within a few hundreds of a second, allowing for some degree of error. I've not noticed any difference in sweeping with as much as .250 of a second variance
between the two files.

This has opened up a whole new world for this Karaoke junkie, for sure. Takes time and patience, but WOW!

Hope someone else has fun with this one.

George