Live show music sequencing

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Hello,

We perform shows with live birds that free fly over the audience and perform
other behaviors. Mostly we do not have the luxury of a sound engineer to be
triggering pre-recorded music for different show segments. I am looking for
a software application that will help with this situation. Basically we need
a track list, probably WAV files on a PC. Once a track is triggered it
should play, looping if necessary, until the next event trigger when a cross
fade should be done to the next track in the list. The event trigger can be
something like a mouse click or key press. Modification of a radio mouse to
perform the event trigger is one idea we had. Can someone point us to such
an application?

Thanks,
Sid.

http://www.AvianAmbassadors.com
Flights of Education.

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"Sid Price" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> We perform shows with live birds that free fly over the audience and
> perform other behaviors. Mostly we do not have the luxury of a sound
> engineer to be triggering pre-recorded music for different show
> segments. I am looking for a software application that will help with
> this situation. Basically we need a track list, probably WAV files on
> a PC. Once a track is triggered it should play, looping if necessary,
> until the next event trigger when a cross fade should be done to the
> next track in the list. The event trigger can be something like a
> mouse click or key press. Modification of a radio mouse to perform
> the event trigger is one idea we had. Can someone point us to such an
> application?

Most music players can do what you want, if you prepare your musical tracks
by looping them using an audio editor and then recording them in their
extended form.

BTW, musical tracks used in live shows are commonly extended by adding
silence at the end, so that there's no danger of running into the next song
unexpectedly.

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Sid Price wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We perform shows with live birds that free fly over the audience and perform
> other behaviors. Mostly we do not have the luxury of a sound engineer to be
> triggering pre-recorded music for different show segments. I am looking for
> a software application that will help with this situation. Basically we need
> a track list, probably WAV files on a PC. Once a track is triggered it
> should play, looping if necessary, until the next event trigger when a cross
> fade should be done to the next track in the list. The event trigger can be
> something like a mouse click or key press. Modification of a radio mouse to
> perform the event trigger is one idea we had. Can someone point us to such
> an application?
>
> Thanks,
> Sid.
>
> http://www.AvianAmbassadors.com
> Flights of Education.
>
>
SFX?

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Sid Price <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Hello,

> We perform shows with live birds that free fly over the audience and perform
> other behaviors. Mostly we do not have the luxury of a sound engineer to be
> triggering pre-recorded music for different show segments. I am looking for
> a software application that will help with this situation. Basically we need
> a track list, probably WAV files on a PC. Once a track is triggered it
> should play, looping if necessary, until the next event trigger when a cross
> fade should be done to the next track in the list. The event trigger can be
> something like a mouse click or key press. Modification of a radio mouse to
> perform the event trigger is one idea we had. Can someone point us to such
> an application?

I would look at the Roland Phrase samplers---SP808, SP505, and SP606.
The 606 now comes bundled with software to allow you to edit on PC.
The nice thing about the Rolands is that you get a nice compact self
contained unit. And these are designed for live triggering of samples.

Rob R.