[QLab] sampled beat into song

[Simon McCorry]

Question: How would I be able to transition from a sampled beat into  
a song
keeping the beat underneath? I have a sequence where I am playing a  
rhythm,
and I need to start a piece of music when the stage manager calls it,  
and it
needs to line up with the beat. The cue can be fired within a second  
or 2 of
the stage manager's call, the most important part is that the music  
lines
up. Any Suggestions?

Thanks a lot!
~Chris Luessman

This is the kind of thing a hardware sampler does very well -  
latching beats

how about starting both sound cues together with the song having no  
volume, then the next cue would fade up the volume of the song.

Or if you want the transition into the song to be near the beginning  
of the song, get a rough estimate of the minimum time it takes from  
the beginning of the sampled beat to the point the stage manager  
gives the cue for the song to start. Add this amount,  minus a few  
seconds, of  the sampled beat to the beginning of the song audio  
file. Trigger both cues together -  as above - with the song at no  
volume with the the next cue fading up the song . We don't hear the  
sampled beats that are added to the song sound file, they are just  
there to make sure the amount of time matches up to a beat.

Or tap your feet and be a musician!




Simon McCorry
simon.mccorry at mac.com




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