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[George]

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Steve, there's an alternative you might be interested in. Now don't flinch when I mention MIDI's. I know most sound pretty crappy, but they can be made to sound great.

Edirol markets a product called Virtual Sound Canvas. You can take a MIDI file and change any of the instruments in the arrangement you wish, say from a crappy sounding tenor sax to a vibraphone, add depth and reverb to it, reduce or increase the volume of any one instrument, and on and on. There are several of us doing this and all are reporting extreme pleasure in the results. It is a perfect compliment to Karaoke Home Producer. It comes on a cd and is the best $49.00 I've spent in a long time as it has expanded my Karaoke horizons tremendously.

I'd suggest you first surf and see if you can find MIDI files of the Percy Sledge songs you want. If they are there, ignore the "tinny" sound. you can change all that. I've been surprised at how many of them are real close to the original arrangement. I just finished Allan Parson's "Don't Answer Me" and it's almost note for note. You can either leave the lead instrument in at reduced volume for a background guide, or remove it completely for true Karaoke. I choose to call these pieces "MIDIOKE"

By the time you have reconstructed a MIDI file, found and arranged the lyrics to fit the instrumentation, and processed it all through KHP, you'll have a finished product you can truly call your own one of a kind, something to be proud of.

Just thought I'd pass this on to you.

Take care,

George

http://www.edirol.com

Whooops forgot to mention earlier this software converts MIDI to WAV when you save your finished work.