There’s now a way that allows intros of songs to be played over dry idents in the main playout window in Rivendell when in automation mode.
There’s a new communual cartwall set up called ‘Cam105R Idents C’. When Rivendell is in Automatic mode, drag any of those idents over to the main playlist window between any two songs and the ident will play over the intro of the next song.
There’s one thing to bare in mind, and that is you need to make sure the song that’s coming up doesn’t start on a vocal, so in essence make sure the song has an instrumental intro of 5 seconds or longer, or else you’ll crash the vocal of the song.
This YouTube video shows how it works.
Currently, only the idents on cartwall C allow you to do this (they exist as their own entities in the system so not as to confuse people picking things from communual cartwalls A & B). Also the idents have been set up to run +2db louder than the music tracks in the system so the ident can cut through the music cleanly.
