Hoster 5.00 Tempo Change - in 5.06 released Mar 15, 2011

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

The lyrics sync slider can be used if you have a song that is individually out of sync, as in when the producer didn't get it right. The offset is for when your computer is lagging or too fast on showing the lyrics on all songs.

just wondering, how it will work,are you gonna use the slider while someone is singing the out of sync song ? that would basically get the singer go out of tune, since you might be adjusting the slider too much ahead or too little..what if the song playing goes out of sync in the middle of the song..just trying to picture this feature in my mind..a little bit comical and also once the song was corrected will it stay in sync , or have to keep playing with the slider everytime you play the said song..

[admin]

Originally Posted by billyo

just wondering, how it will work,are you gonna use the slider while someone is singing the out of sync song ? that would basically get the singer go out of tune, since you might be adjusting the slider too much ahead or too little..what if the song playing goes out of sync in the middle of the song..just trying to picture this feature in my mind..a little bit comical and also once the song was corrected will it stay in sync , or have to keep playing with the slider everytime you play the said song..

If a song varys the sync, you need to re-engineer it with KHPro.

The control does NOT vary the key/pitch or termpo, only the lyrics sync. Once adjusted, the lyrics should remain in sync for the song.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

just wondering, how it will work,are you gonna use the slider while someone is singing the out of sync song ? that would basically get the singer go out of tune, since you might be adjusting the slider too much ahead or too little..what if the song playing goes out of sync in the middle of the song..just trying to picture this feature in my mind..a little bit comical and also once the song was corrected will it stay in sync , or have to keep playing with the slider everytime you play the said song..

It does not make a permanent change to the sync. Nor is it something you would use on every song. For that you still have the offset control. It is for a single song that the mfg did not get set correctly. It is not a drastic change when you use it. It will make small shifts to get it closer to correct sync.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by billyo

just wondering, how it will work,are you gonna use the slider while someone is singing the out of sync song ? that would basically get the singer go out of tune, since you might be adjusting the slider too much ahead or too little..what if the song playing goes out of sync in the middle of the song..just trying to picture this feature in my mind..a little bit comical and also once the song was corrected will it stay in sync , or have to keep playing with the slider everytime you play the said song..

I saw it demonstrated via another program my buddy uses last year before Hoster got it, it works well especially on the newer Chartbuster songs that seem to lag trying to get the new page of lyrics up - bump the slider a couple notches & people can actually sing the songs without missing the first couple words of each page. Definitely a nice new feature here!
I don't know if i'd edit every song that needed it (via KHPro), but I do edit the song title (in between brackets <>)to remind me to set it for that song and by how much - Hoster doesn't show anything on the singers screen in between the brackets but will on the host screen which is really nice in itself.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Lonman

I do edit the song title (in between brackets <>)to remind me to set it for that song and by how much - Hoster doesn't show anything on the singers screen in between the brackets but will on the host screen which is really nice in itself.

That's a handy little tip, I must remember that one. Thanks for posting that.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

That's a handy little tip, I must remember that one. Thanks for posting that.

Yeah it was quite by accident actually that I noticed it. I have all songs with any swearing marked with PA in between the <> and somebody talked me into singing one late at night & I noticed it didn't display the bracketed info on the singer monitor - like an HTML code. Very handy!

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Yeah it was quite by accident actually that I noticed it. I have all songs with any swearing marked with PA in between the <> and somebody talked me into singing one late at night & I noticed it didn't display the bracketed info on the singer monitor - like an HTML code. Very handy!

Just experimenting with this and found another use, you can use the < > after the singers name and enter some letters to denote the venue, handy for same name singers at different venues. again shows on playlist but not on singers display.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Yeah it was quite by accident actually that I noticed it. I have all songs with any swearing marked with PA in between the <> and somebody talked me into singing one late at night & I noticed it didn't display the bracketed info on the singer monitor - like an HTML code. Very handy!

Very handy. I use it to put notes on songs but Ive found if the first character after the < is a number it will still display, so to note a 45 second intro I have to type it as sec45 intro

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

Very handy. I use it to put notes on songs but Ive found if the first character after the < is a number it will still display, so to note a 45 second intro I have to type it as sec45 intro

Hey what's the new picture, do you have to sing on an exercise bike ?

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by billyo

just wondering, how it will work,are you gonna use the slider while someone is singing the out of sync song ? that would basically get the singer go out of tune, since you might be adjusting the slider too much ahead or too little..what if the song playing goes out of sync in the middle of the song..just trying to picture this feature in my mind..a little bit comical and also once the song was corrected will it stay in sync , or have to keep playing with the slider everytime you play the said song..

It doesn't get them out of tune at all. It gets them back on track! It's confusing to sing a song you know and ignore the wipes that are out of sync and its frustrating to try and sing a fast paced song that paints the lyrics at the exact same time you need to be singing it. So far I've used it with much succes for myself on the SC version of Billy Joels "we didnt start the fire". Many of the lyrics show up right when they need to be sung, not giving your brain a chance to read them. a quarter second speed up of graphics was perfect. I also used it the other night for a song that was left out of sync after an audio drop. Slowing down the graphics by a half second got it back in sync.
As admin noted the slider does not effect a permanent change. For that you'll want to use khpro or use songverter to convert the song to an mp3g and an audio program to add or subtract a little silence from the begining of the file name as is appropriate and then reimport it.