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[jerrylawrence]

is there anyway that the space between loading of the song from a CD-G can be shortened? My player goes thru a commercial(?) and then to the music and I'd like to cut the commercial so that there's only a few seconds between songs instead of about 10 between each song.

[jahern]

It sounds like you are wanting to get input from Karaoke hosts about running a show. There is a forum called Singer and Host Wisdom for questions like that.

MTU makes a product called Microstudio, and you have posted on a forum regarding that product. Maybe you are using Hoster, another MTU product. There are forums for Hoster users.

If your question is about Microstudio, I am not clear of your meaning. What do you mean by "commercial" and "loading a song"? I'm trying to think what you might mean in a Microstudio context, but I just don't understand. (For instance, there is no commercial when someone wants to import a track)

Good Luck

[jerrylawrence]

Evidently I never made my question clear so will try again.
On my CD-Gs there is a video showing the song title and key(s) before the music starts. Will this be copied by Microstudio onto the CD that I want to make? It's before each song and when I use them on my karaoke machine I have to wait until the title and key and credits are given before the music starts which makes a delay between songs.

[djmadmaxx]

yes, it will make an exact copy of the track and the title screen. It will be just like your original

[jahern]

You can use KHPRO to redo the lyrics, but this would seem to be more trouble than it is worth. Not all brands waste an annoying amount of time, but even so, it seems that the audience understands what's going on. It might even help audience anticipation to know what song is coming up etc.

Hope you find a happy solution for what you want.

[jerrylawrence]

My problem is that I don't do a karaoke "show" with people singing, I do concerts using the karaoke, alone. I can use the time to introduce the song, while the title, key and writer is scrolling but it's a lot of talking between songs. I don't know if there is any editing software out or not that would do the job. What I've read here is people doing regular karaoke shows with the audience singing. I have the Microstudio and a PleXwriter plus an HP drive that reads the CD+Gs but not sure about any software that would let me edit to beyond the credits, etc. per song.

[admin]

Jerry, as a professional singer, do you need the lyrics at all on a screen before you?

Either way, you may want to consider remastering your songs. This would require our Karaoke Home Producer 4.103 product, which allows you to take a .wav file of the audio on the hard drive, add the lyrics text (or import a .txt file you already prepared), and synchronize them together.

With KHP, you would not have the producer's logo "ad" page, or you could add your own with your name and the song title.

You can get the music only (strip all the graphics (ad) and lyrics from a CDG Karaoke song and import only the music using Microstudio. Click the Import Tracks tab, click the WAV button (not CDG).

If you don't want any lyrics at all, you can import the .wav file into KHP, add a title page or not, add the song title if you want or not, then export as a .cdg file. It can be written to a CD+G Karaoke disc to run in Microstudio or a Karaoke Player, whichever you use on stage.

If your .wav file has silence at the start that you want to remove, use any of the available audio editors, such as Goldwave, to cut the starting silence. Then use the audio (sans silence) file in KHP.

If you don't need any lyrics or song titles, you can just add each song to an Audio CD using Microstudio to create an Audio CD in the Custom Assembly Tab.

Hope this helps.