"p.mc" wrote in message
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Hi all
I'm new to this group and was hoping to get some sound advice from here.
I've been with an amatuer theatre for the last few years providing bespoke
sfx for their productions. I've been using minidisc format for most of the
time untill recentley I invested in a dual cd player
http://www.numark.com/cdn35
The most annoying thing I found was;
1...How to remove the silence bit and still have the unit autopause.
(it's annoying when you have some cues pretty close together, but it
adds 2 to 5 secs before next track can play)
2...How to stop some tracks playing a millisecond of the neaxt track just
before autopausing.
I use mixcraft to edit and produce my sfx, which adds approx 3 sec silence
to the end of the saved file, and CD burning software adds approx 2 sec
silence to the beggining of a track.
Is there a workaround, or can these points be resolved with CD media?
ps
I know dual mp3 players and HDD tech would do the job, but I need to get
the most using CD media with this unit.
I have two early CD players by Denon which were designed
for broadcast and audio post, which do precisely what you are
trying to do, and cue with extreme accuracy.to 1/3 frame (1/75 second)
with material both from published libraries such as Sound Ideas,
or your own CD SFX compilations.
http://img.tweedehands.nl/f/normal/5...dge-player.jpg
They were triggered from the console by a GP relay, but there
is no reason which you could not trigger them manually, or with a wired
remote, to a script or a visual cue. The sound assistant loaded the
CDs and cued each machine in turn, either using headphones, or to
a written time code displayed by the machine (see pic) which he/she
had written in the margin of the script. By this method, we could
lay fairly long sequences of music and FX without stopping.
These machines also have varispeed, which was useful in
matching the pitch of tuned FX (gong etc) to a music track.
But surely, in your case playing out SFX from a PC with
visual cueing would be much better.
Iain
Iain