What do you mean by "tone" exactly?  Presumably not an audible tone?  Is
this a term that's carried over from the idea of using audio control tones
to trigger events or something?

Brian



On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Brandon <[email protected]>wrote:

> Fellow Rivendellers,
>
> Just upgraded to RD 2.7.0 on Mint 12 (Ubuntu Oneiric) using the
> Tryphon/Debian packages . In all previous versions of RD, have had the
> following problem.
>
> Is there a setting to force RD to respect song intros when enforcing segue
> chains in the clock?
>
> I have every element in the library toned. Songs have intros (multiple
> intros, in some cases) and imaging has tones where it should fire a song
> and walk up an intro.
>
> The problem is, that if a song has a cold intro, (begins with a vocal) or
> is shorter than the duration of the imaging, RD doesn't respect the intro
> of the song and walks all over the vocal. Very sloppy.
>
> Example:
>
> Tone at the end of current song fires :12 second sweeper. The first :06 of
> the sweeper is fully produced with music or percussion so it can't play
> over song intro. But the last :06 is dry or only semi-produced, so the tone
> is set to start the next element (song) at :06.
>
> Now, let's say the song has :04 second intro.
>
> RD should calculate the difference and fire the song at :08 to hit the
> post without causing a train-wreck.
>
> Songs with intros the same length or longer than the next tone of an
> imaging element sound great!!!
>
> Now, If I could only figure out how to get Jack+Liquidsoap+Icecast with
> liquidsoap performing compression, limiting and multiband EQ working... DUN
> DUN DUN!
>
> Thank you,
> Brandon
>
> Sent from outer space...
>
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