Mixing filler music between singers?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Like the others I have a separate program running on a separate sound card fed to the mixer to fade in when I need.

Lon,
Whattya got for an ext. sound card, I got a Lil behringer thing. Once in a while I get a "no sound coming from anywhere" thing; I unplug the usb sound card, plug it back in, and it's okay?

I oughtta look at what you got, perhaps?

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by bryant

Lon,
Whattya got for an ext. sound card, I got a Lil behringer thing. Once in a while I get a "no sound coming from anywhere" thing; I unplug the usb sound card, plug it back in, and it's okay?

I oughtta look at what you got, perhaps?

I use a Lexicon Alpha. It's a great little unit complete with balanced 1/4" outputs.
I get that no sound anywhere on occasion, usually it's when the computer sits idle for too long (not at a show, but at home) & I have to unplug the USB on the unit to wake it up.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Lonman

I use a Lexicon Alpha. It's a great little unit complete with balanced 1/4" outputs.
I get that no sound anywhere on occasion, usually it's when the computer sits idle for too long (not at a show, but at home) & I have to unplug the USB on the unit to wake it up.

i have the same , i couldnt get it to work with my laptop caused of the windows media center, but it works fine on my other laptops/pc's.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by billyo

i have the same , i couldnt get it to work with my laptop caused of the windows media center, but it works fine on my other laptops/pc's.

Is the one with WMC a Vista machine? Not sure why it would cause the problem, works fine on both my Vista machines.

[swany]

I play smaller venues and on a good night the Karaoke rotation will be 20 folks in a bar of 80 people so I do play some dj request figuring only 25% have come to sing, and 75% are there for whatever. If I get the ladies to dance between each rotation they dance more during the karaoke also. So dj is a win win with me. Far as a method I have been using WMP, but they have failed me a couple of times and recently aquired MediaMonkey this little program is a DJs low budget dream. Process wise it uses way less than the WMP which if I could get rid of from my Vistas I would and not look back. If the new version of Hoster (I am planning on next week) works as well as mediamonkey it will go by the wayside. In my music directory a simple click and drag puts it in play. Or I can choose multiples very easy and place them in the stack. Far as fading, in mediamonkey it is adjustable. Time between songs is adjustable from zero which is my preferred setting. I have all faders in storage. "Dead air space is my enemy"

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Lonman

Is the one with WMC a Vista machine? Not sure why it would cause the problem, works fine on both my Vista machines.

no its an xp, i didnt know that most of the 3rd party dj/ recording softwares wont work with windows media center, i spoke to a sound eng'r. and some friends that i know,that do a lot of studio recordings and i was told that nothing will work with wmc, itunes and pcdj are the only that works with my back-up dj laptop..

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by billyo

no its an xp, i didnt know that most of the 3rd party dj/ recording softwares wont work with windows media center, i spoke to a sound eng'r. and some friends that i know,that do a lot of studio recordings and i was told that nothing will work with wmc, itunes and pcdj are the only that works with my back-up dj laptop..

OTSDJ works as well with WMC.

[Vinny]

I use OtsDJ as well. But for DJing. Though I could, I don't use it for Karaoke.