Hello and a happy new year,
Silly question here: I’m hosting a hit guessing contest on the radio. My listeners have to guess a hit after they hear the Hook(chorus) but in reverse mode. I`m doing the reverse hook using external daw(audacity). I tried to solve this using the Cue Editor in mAirList 8, placing HookOut before HookIn but it will always play in the right direction. Can I achieve this using some Delphi scripting or some trick?
Thanks,
Ovidiu
Simply: You can’t. This really is not the task a radio automation is designed for. Keep producing the reverse hooks via an external software. It’s the right way to do it.
Theoretically, one solution would be to build a watcher that monitors a specific folder. Then you create the hook of an element via right-click. You export the hook as a mixdown into that folder. The watcher picks it up and runs a script that creates a reversed version of the file and places it into another folder.
In theory, this could also be done with an mls script (I think). You would create a hook in the playout and then run a script that searches for hooks in the playout. If it finds one, a mixdown is created, then the next script is triggered and the reversed version is generated.
Just some ideas, written down quickly.
Well thought. But „watching“ and „reversing“ is not explained further. And it cannot be achieved via (mAirList-) scripting, just because it is not intended for that purpose.
The “Bass FX”, used in mAIrList, is already capable of doing reverse playback.
Maybe it’s possible to activate it in mAirList as an option, as other tweakings like pitch and tempo changes are already possible. You “only” would need another parameter in the editor window for -1 or +1 (or whatever should be used).
BASS FX 2.4.12.6
An extension providing several effects, including reverse playback and tempo & pitch control.
But maybe it’s already possible to use it via script already by manipulating the bass_fx output?
Scripting the playout is not possible, for good reasons.