Big Bob: It sounds like you had quite a system going there. I'm not set up for home recording and I can only play the two instruments so I couldn't lay down my own drums and bass. Well maybe bass if I had one.
But what I have in mind is more of an expanded capability karaoke. The guy who sings with us also does a one man show and these days the tracks he's using for backup are really nice. Gone are the chintzy sounding midi instrument sounds. ( you ever hear those midi steel guitar sounds? ...like finger nails on a blackboard to me) So being that someone is putting together these karaoke tracks anyways, why doesn't some enterprise take it a step farther and offer the backup in a format that conserves a basic multitrack (say 4 or 6 tracks maximum). This could be be set up to work with a laptop running Adobe Audition type editing/sequencing software. I'm not up on the hardware but with a plugin someone should be able to couple a simple 6 button foot controller to a laptop to turn individual tracks on or off. I don't see it as being that far removed from what's already being used. There wouldn't be any need for lush 24 or 32 track arrangements. Six tracks would be lots, especially since the software would let you combine tracks if necessary.
So you've already got pro musicians putting together real instrument tracks for karaoke. And all manner of multitrack manipulation is currently available to anyone with a computer. It seems like all that's missing is someone to marry the technology to a comprehensive catalog of song tracks.
Rick: No, what I'm looking for is performance based, but thanks for the info nonetheless. [This message was edited by Bill Miller on 26 February 2006 at 07:20 AM.]
[This message was edited by Bill Miller on 26 February 2006 at 12:01 PM.]
