Talkover?

Archive mAirList 4.x (English)
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Is there a talkover button on mAirList or not? This would then turn down the music a fraction so you can talk over it.

I don’t think there is, but any help would be useful, thanks.

FunkyDJ

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No, but there are two alternatives:

  1. For ASSIST, you can ask mAirList to display on-screen faders for each Player.
  2. For AUTO, you can use my IVP script to make your voicetracks do talkovers.

And finally, if you really really need a ‘talkover’ button, you can always write a script and tie it to a button which you can display and click.

I do also have to give Torben’s standard answer, which is: mAirList is designed to be used in conjunction with a physical broadcast mixer of some sort. If you need a ‘talkover’ button, I’m bound to ask whether or not you are using a mixer? If you are, each mAirList player is typically sent to a separate channel on your mixer, with all Cartwall players usually going (as a ‘whole’) to another separate mixer channel.

Please let us know so we can help you further.

BFN
Cad

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If that “talkover button” is supposed to turn on the microphone and duck the music level at the same time, then the answer is no. Because this is not how radio works.

You can use the MIC ON/OFF (or LIVE ON/OFF in v4.0 and below) button to turn on the mic, and the volume sliders to change the volume of the particular players. A physical mixer would be the best choice though.

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Hi
You could do this with an Extended Button in the GUI. Get the (toggle) button to execute commands to reduce all the volume sliders by 20db say on pressing once and then return them to 0db on second press.

Which brings me on to another question. Should the volume sliders work i.e. reduce the volume with a multi outlet sound card?
I have 3 outputs using my soundblaster, and they don’t work. I have a test set up on another PC using the on-board realtek set to default for all channels and it works well - including the “simulated talk-over button”.

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The volume sliders will never affect the sliders on the soundcard mixers, but only reduce the volume on the software side.