How do you create a medley of songs

[SteveWalker]

Originally Posted by George

You would then import the audio track and the lyrics into Karaoke Home producer and make your new, cdg.

How are you doing George. Ok, it's not worth it to me to reconstruct the whole process using Karaoke Home Producer. I was hoping to hear of a karaoke editor product that can retrieve both the audio and lyrics and put them on a time line "synchronized", then I would cut off both audio and lyrics from the front and back and store it as CD+G file. I guess I'm dreaming up a product that doesn't exist.

[jdavia]

Yeah!! Don't we all wish it could be that easy, including MTU.
But one day if the upgrades keep coming from MTU that may be possible.

[George]

Hi Steve,

Doing well and thanks for asking. Hope you and yours came through the storms in good shape.

Steve, I'm not saying that what you are proposing can't be done, just that I have never seen any software that would allow trimming and merging of cdg files, which leaves going the KHP route as the only method I can think of.

I'd think if any of our readers had knowledge to the contrary they would have jumped in by now, at least I hope so..

Anyway, take care of yourself.

George

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hello All,
I take it we are all talking about editing commercially available CDG's.
I have searched for a program/software to edit CDG files, either to add new lyrics, put in an introductory verse or chop some long winded musical interlude or ending, or make a medley.
It doesn't appear to exist.
KHPro seems to be the only way to create your own CDG but it is long winded.
Try www.audiotoolsdirect.com they list a lot of programmes, including MTU, for converting between formats, most are shareware, some are freeware, most have a trial period to try out the programmes, some obviously limit functionability (Is there such a word?)
Regards from across the pond.
Garry

[SteveWalker]

Thanks jdavia, George and Garry for the help and info.

George, we were very fortunate here in Clearwater with all the hurricanes. The first one turned right just in time to miss us, the second went north of us crossing the state and the last one was projected to hit us early on but ended up in the Panhandle. Thanks for the good words.

I just don't have the time to create CDG's but I will check out the tools that Garry linked to. Another approach is for the player to allow us to set bookmarks in a song so it can skip in and out to achieve the same thing.

Steve

[S. Parks]

Pro Tools, Cubase, Cakewalk and other programs of the like will allow you to edit wave files, stretch time, beat match, loop files, etc. to create song medleys to import into KPro. Goldwave will do it too, but it takes a bit more tinkering.

[SteveWalker]

Originally Posted by S. Parks

Pro Tools, Cubase, Cakewalk and other programs of the like will allow you to edit wave files, stretch time, beat match, loop files, etc. to create song medleys to import into KPro. Goldwave will do it too, but it takes a bit more tinkering.

I have ProTools, Sonar 3 Producer and a VS-2480 all can be used to edit audio wave files. But I need a way to get the lyrics data on a timeline with the audio.

Do you know if Karaoke Pro can read in a song from CDG? This seems to be the closest one for the job but does it only create from scatch?

Steve

[S. Parks]

It won't do what your asking. You still have to import the lyrics separately to your song and sync them to the music.