Hmmmm. Well, the principle need of the film would be just for the words, of course.. so a 35MM projector could be workable. It'd be slower access moving song to song, even wheeling at high-speed.. and you'd just about have to put a whole album's worth of songs on one reel.. but that would allow you to unite music and lyrics well, plus a music-video simulation if you want to show, say Singin' in the Rain while the song plays out.. something that's fairly absent in current Karaoke, given the tendency to push lyrics as large as possible for easy viewing on small bar TVs. I'd be slower and inelegant, but, workable I suppose.
As for the latter method, that would require some complex mechanics... the easiest way would be to set the ball for a fairly constant rate of motion and tailor the word-spacing of the lyric roll to that.. Probably easiest than a zip-back motion would be a sort of wheeled system with four bouncing balls, tracing a quarter-turn before the next one 'takes over'.. or moving the apeper instead under the 'Ball' or some sort of marker, so you sing the text as it hits the marker. (This is- in a sense- the way the Karaoke Revolution videogame works.)
Perhaps there's some method that works off the way Karaoke usually works, that is, letters begin in one color and shift to a second color in time with the music. A translucent screen over the lyric sheet's that's shifted to mark time..
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Date: 2005-04-30 04:08 pm (UTC)As for the latter method, that would require some complex mechanics... the easiest way would be to set the ball for a fairly constant rate of motion and tailor the word-spacing of the lyric roll to that.. Probably easiest than a zip-back motion would be a sort of wheeled system with four bouncing balls, tracing a quarter-turn before the next one 'takes over'.. or moving the apeper instead under the 'Ball' or some sort of marker, so you sing the text as it hits the marker. (This is- in a sense- the way the Karaoke Revolution videogame works.)
Perhaps there's some method that works off the way Karaoke usually works, that is, letters begin in one color and shift to a second color in time with the music. A translucent screen over the lyric sheet's that's shifted to mark time..
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