Sound Byte Cart Machine App vs SQ Theatre Sound Cues Usage & Stats

Looking for a way to play sound clips at a theater or sporting events, as a DJ, or at other events? Don’t want to lug a computer around with you? With Sound Byte, the so-called "cart machine" used at radio stations in the past is now available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Whether you're programming a radio show or amateur podcast, adding spice to the commentary at a local sporting event, controlling sound effects for a theater production, or simply organizing your personal playlist, Sound Byte lets you manage and control playback of your audio files. Sound Byte is perfect for: Radio, podcast and TV productions - have ads, announcements, songs and sound effects at your fingertips. Theater Productions - play any sound effect on cue. Sports Events - jazz up the commentary for your home team with sound effects each time they score. Sound Byte supports up to 20 racks of carts, or up to 1500 recordings total (420 on the iPhone/iPod). You can set the number of racks in use, so you don’t have to deal with empty, unused racks. Using Sound Byte is easy - just tap a cart, and playback of the audio file begins. You can set the title of each cart, as well as the background color. Optionally, you can have the app automatically change cart colors based on their state: empty, loaded, playing, and already played. Carts can also be numbered if you wish, and you can mark carts with a bright red border to make them easier to find, to play next. Fade in and out times can be set, as well as the cut in and cut out times, the playback volume, stereo pan, and rate. The volume of carts can be set while they are playing, and you can set the volume up to 200%, in case you have some recordings that are at too low of a level for normal playback. Carts can be set to loop a specified number of times - great for sound effects! Carts can be set to flash a user configured number of seconds before they finish playing, so you can get ready to play the next one. Interactions between carts can also be controlled - touching a cart to start it can optionally cause currently playing carts to stop playback or fade out. You can even set carts up to play sequentially, so once one ends, the next one starts playing. Carts that have been played can be marked as such, as well as disabled, if you only want to play a cart once. You can also log the name and time of played carts to a text file that you can copy back to your computer to view. This log can also be viewed from within the app. Several sizes of carts are supported, so you can display fewer larger carts to make playback control even easier. Sound Byte plays sound files from your Music Library. Note that sound files stored on iCloud cannot be played, they must be stored on your device. Sound Byte also plays sound files that you have installed in the Documents folder, which you can access via the iTunes app. Note that the screenshots are for illustration only, so you can see how the app works. Sound Byte does not come with any sound files, you'll need to supply your own. Please see http://www.blackcatsystems.com/ipad/iPad_SoundByte_FAQ.html for a full description of how to use the app. Buy your copy of Sound Byte now, and get complete control over playback of your sound effects and other files.

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SQ Theatre Sound Cues

SQ Theatre Sound Cues gives you the simple and intuitive tools you need to strike right mood for the play with music and sounds. Take command of the music for Overtures, Intermission, Outros and any sound effects the show calls for - you're the Sound Engineer. Bring a professional level of sound production to the show with Fade In and Fade Out controls to end hard stops and starts. Set specific Start and Stop times in a song to skip a slow intro or launch right into the moment a song kicks into gear. Support for Apple Music subscriptions and Spotify Premium accounts you can access any song and sound effect you can think of. You can either stream their songs or download them to your device for better performance. In the Pro Version (via In-App purchase): With the ability to load an unlimited number of songs and sounds you can choose the right sounds for any moment in the show. You can specify a Sound Cue that will display on-screen so that you can easily follow along and cue up the right sounds at the right time. Additionally, you can group your sounds any way you like with support for an unlimited number of groups to make the sounds easy to find. You can easily achieve the right emotion for the moment using these music playback customization features: - Specify theatre style Sound Cues markers for display on-screen like they would are listed in the screenplay. - Fade In and Fade Out - Sub-Second Start and Stop points (Pro Version only)* - Sound Looping - Sound Overlay and Crossfade - Audio Dropout - Individual song sound volume levels - In-App Volume Control to set the right level while playing music. (Pro Version Only)* - Support for AirPlay output (Pro Version Only)* - Color categorize your songs with 11 different colors to choose from (Pro Version Only)* - Three customizable tap actions to Start and Stop a song - Three customizable tap actions for Song Groups (Pro Version Only)* - Pause & Resume the last Song played (Pro Version Only)* - Import songs and sounds from iTunes, Files and the iOS Share button - Supports Apple Music subscriptions - streaming or downloaded music** - Supports Spotify Premium - streaming or downloaded music** - Unlimited number of songs and sounds to take to the game (Pro Version Only)* - Unlimited Sound Groups for organizing your songs and sounds (Pro Version Only)* - Copy and Move sounds between Groups - Create an automated a playlist with Play Next Sound or Group Tap Actions (Pro Version Only)* - Supports playback of M4A (Apple), M4R (Ringtone), MP3 and WAV audio file formats - Supports Dark Mode - Supports French (Canada) and French (France) languages * Free vs Pro Version Functionality: Free: Limited to having only 1 Song Groups Pro: Use an Unlimited amount of Song Groups --- Free: Limited to loading only 10 songs per Song Group Pro: Load an Unlimited number of songs --- Free: Limited to Start/Stop timing accuracy at the second Pro: Supports sub-second song Start/Stop timing accuracy to hit that moment in the song perfectly --- Free: Does not allow for Group Tap Actions Pro: Supports the Group Tap Action features including Group Action Menus --- Free: Can only Start and Stop Songs Pro: Supports Pausing and Resuming the last Song played --- Free: Song Cells are all a nice Red color Pro: Song Cells can be configured with 11 different colors to choose from --- Free: No In-App Volume control, must use device Vol Up/Down buttons Pro: Can control the music volume with a precise Volume slider to get the right volume level. Plus use the Route button to output your music to AirPlay devices (iTunes and Apple Music only, Spotify not yet working with AirPlay). --- Free: Will not receive forth coming new features Pro: Will get all the new cool stuff ** Apple Music and Spotify Premium Subscription important notes: For details on the limitations of using streaming music services, see our FAQ web page: http://hotgsoftware.com/faq/