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Old March 19th, 2012, 01:26 PM
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Re: Breakaway SW doesn't work with 5.06

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So what you want is a "Automatic Gain Control" (AGC) in Hoster?

We have considered that, and would be more willing to add that in than try to modify to work with some other code we have no control over.
AGC would be "Sweet"!

I also run into some of the same challanges of keeping the volume level just right! The volume level for Videos are well below that of KMA (CD+G, MP3+G) or KMH files. This requires close attention when swithching from Video to KMA/KMH otherwise the potential to make ears ring is there.

Should a post be made in Hoster new features request?
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Old March 19th, 2012, 02:09 PM
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Re: Breakaway SW doesn't work with 5.06

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AGC would be "Sweet"!

I also run into some of the same challanges of keeping the volume level just right! The volume level for Videos are well below that of KMA (CD+G, MP3+G) or KMH files. This requires close attention when swithching from Video to KMA/KMH otherwise the potential to make ears ring is there.

Should a post be made in Hoster new features request?
I think a discussion of audio normalization (AGC) has been on the table for a while now, I remember participating in the thread, and it was tabled for future consideration... so you would just be bumping the thread, or AGC conversation to freshen the discussion to current plans of MTU, and if, and how much interest the current clients and / or future buyers would have in this feature... then perhaps, MTU would put it on the feasibility schedule, and have engineering look at it! And judge the cost to benefit ratio!

I still vote YES to have an audio normalization feature built into Hoster, instead of having to add another program, ie. BreakAway, that may or may not work with the Hoster Programming Code... at least that way, we can keep it compatible as Hoster evolves...
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Old March 19th, 2012, 02:43 PM
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Auto gain control WITH multiband compressor - but it would have to be user adjustable like Breakaway (which I use now as well). The multiband is the key to why BreakAway sounds so good. It takes certain frequencies which are recorded too hot & only pulls them down automatically on the fly taking a somewhate bad recording and bringing it back to a decenet/tolerable sounding state - crispens up the over mix & adds a little punch to the low end as well.
Like in the OTSDJ, they have a killer multi band/AGC control as well. If Hoster could add this, that would be sweet, not to affect/change the actual files, but an inline plugin doing it in real time.
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Old March 19th, 2012, 02:45 PM
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I think a discussion of audio normalization (AGC) has been on the table for a while now, I remember participating in the thread, and it was tabled for future consideration... so you would just be bumping the thread, or AGC conversation to freshen the discussion to current plans of MTU, and if, and how much interest the current clients and / or future buyers would have in this feature... then perhaps, MTU would put it on the feasibility schedule, and have engineering look at it! And judge the cost to benefit ratio!

I still vote YES to have an audio normalization feature built into Hoster, instead of having to add another program, ie. BreakAway, that may or may not work with the Hoster Programming Code... at least that way, we can keep it compatible as Hoster evolves...
Nice idea My DJ program has one "autogain"..but it is not 100% flawless, however, it also has an "auto-remember" feature so when you adjust the gain on the fly it remembers that and makes that correction for the future playing of that particular song (this is used for those odd songs that even with the auto-gain on , they still don't seem to balance out well).
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Old March 19th, 2012, 04:22 PM
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Lonnie are you having any problems with Breakaway and 5.06? The only problem I have is when the background fades out, it glitches bad...BTW I second what Lonnie said, It also would be a great selling point.
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Old March 19th, 2012, 05:24 PM
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Lonnie are you having any problems with Breakaway and 5.06? The only problem I have is when the background fades out, it glitches bad...BTW I second what Lonnie said, It also would be a great selling point.
Actually my show machine is having problems with 5.06 in general, i'm going to reinstall tonight if I can get internet and try it again.
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Old March 19th, 2012, 06:47 PM
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Lonnie I reinstalled my Breakaway also. It took most of my problems away except the fade...I had a bunch of things going wacky before that...
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Re: Breakaway SW doesn't work with 5.06

Having been around this forum for quite some time now I also recall much banter in the past about AGC...but it seems that other items took precedence over the addition of this feature....I for one have always wished it would have been added to the features in Hoster....over the course of twenty years of acquiring karaoke files there are many karaoke files that have differing gain levels that you must be there at your mixer console when a song change occurs to ride the gain control....or take each problem karaoke file you encounter and split the mp3 file away and run it through a mp3 gain processor and then reload to hoster
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Or try Breakaway for now. Works on the fly, no need to change each file.
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