Wave file plays too fast - sampled at 22K and KHP requires 44K

[Annie]

I have just purchased Karaoke Home Producer, and sat down this evening to make my first cdg song. I had my wave file and lyrics file all ready to go when - !?!?!?! - the wave file played much too fast to have any hope of syncing lyrics.

Can anyone help? The wave file plays perfectly in Windows Media Player, Sound Forge and Cakewalk. I recorded the wave file in Sound Forge from a midi file which was played using the Virtual Sound Canvas with output via one Wave out channel of a Roland UA100 Audio Canvas. N.B. Playback from KHP through the Roland was TERRIBLE! So I switched to my sound card, a Vibra128, which improved the sound quality, but not the speed.

I also tried recording the midi file playing through the sound card (even though it gives poorer quality sound), but KHP still played the wave file too fast.

Thanks

[GordonF]

First guess is you're trying to play a sound file recorded at 22k or maybe even 11k. KHP expects to see a 44k (CD quality) sample when you feed it an audio file.

You can resample a file into 44k usually by loading it into Sound Recorder, picking File/Properties, and picking "Convert Now." But the typical three minute track will become about 50 MB easily and you might not have the RAM to do this, since Sound Recorder works exclusively from RAM. Other audio editors can do this without such an impact on RAM, however.

I discovered a really cool audio editor called GoldWave http://www.goldwave.com/ that can do what you want, and do a lot of other processing before feeding it to KHP. I think MTU has some tools for this too.

[Annie]

You are quite right! I had Sound Forge set up to sample at 22K for earlier work I'd been doing and forgot to change it. I probably should have checked this myself!

Thanks