A Few Ideas For The Karaoke Module

**walmartman** · May 10, 2006

hi tom,

ive been sitting here thinking about some features that might make the karaoke for registered users of game ex a little more fun! being a karaoke host myself and having years of ecperiance in the business i have a few ideas i think might work for game ex.......1) how about maybe a pitch or key change feature in the karaoke module so that singers can change the pitch of the song to better suit their vocal range ive found that being able to change the pitch or key of a song will get most people that like to sing karaoke to sing almost anything at least once! and 2) and chance at a software based type of reverb effect added to the karaoke feature ive noticed most people will be using the front end right out of mame cabs and this would give singers a better sounding mic when singing seeing as probably most will have microphones running right out of the sound cards on thier pcs ive noticed a very muddy sounding mic if just being run straight from a pc sound card and not many people would want to purchasr any type of sound board to add to thier equipment to get these effects just thought these might ehance game ex making it more fun and awesome than it already is! thanks for looking into the possibilty of maybe adding the features or just reviewing them for feature thought!

thanks tom and keep up the good work!!!

Jester

**walmartman** · May 11, 2006

hi tom,
ive been sitting here thinking about some features that might make the karaoke for registered users of game ex a little more fun! being a karaoke host myself and having years of ecperiance in the business i have a few ideas i think might work for game ex.......1) how about maybe a pitch or key change feature in the karaoke module so that singers can change the pitch of the song to better suit their vocal range ive found that being able to change the pitch or key of a song will get most people that like to sing karaoke to sing almost anything at least once! and 2) and chance at a software based type of reverb effect added to the karaoke feature ive noticed most people will be using the front end right out of mame cabs and this would give singers a better sounding mic when singing seeing as probably most will have microphones running right out of the sound cards on thier pcs ive noticed a very muddy sounding mic if just being run straight from a pc sound card and not many people would want to purchasr any type of sound board to add to thier equipment to get these effects just thought these might ehance game ex making it more fun and awesome than it already is! thanks for looking into the possibilty of maybe adding the features or just reviewing them for feature thought!
thanks tom and keep up the good work!!!
Jester

sorry about the double post!!!

**headkaze** · May 11, 2006

sorry about the double post!!!

No worries - sorted.

I don't think it would be possible to change the pitch/key of the files being played without modfying the source to the DirectX Karaoke plugin.

As for adding reverb to the mic input, there are plenty of stand-alone apps you could launch and run in the background that will do real-time reverb.

**walmartman** · May 12, 2006

No worries - sorted.
I don't think it would be possible to change the pitch/key of the files being played without modfying the source to the DirectX Karaoke plugin.
As for adding reverb to the mic input, there are plenty of stand-alone apps you could launch and run in the background that will do real-time reverb.

okay understadable happen to know offhand any easy to use stand alone programs that would work for what im trying to achieve???

thanks again for the help!

Jester

**headkaze** · May 12, 2006

Unless you have a very good ASIO low-latency sound card it's not practical to use software for adding real-time effects like reverb. If you wan't to add effect to the sound, it's actually more practical to get a hardward effects processor and run the mic through it before you go to the linein of the computer for amplifying. I would check out EBay for an Alesis NanoVerb they have a few effects and are relatively cheap.

If you have an ASIO card, you can get a free software that can host VST plugins which are available all over the Net.

Alesis Nanoverb

ASIO FX Processor LE

Freeverb VST Plugin