The New Stage Sound Music Manager.

The original Computer Music System concept was based on an idea by Paul Johansen in 1994 but the code itself was written by Kevin Donnelly Msc. who is still employed part time by CMS Ltd. What followed was a chaotic relationship between Paul and the person he employed to manage the company. Pauls association with CMS Ltd was finally terminated in 2005 when he was paid out for his remaining shareholding.

Stage Sound Ent Ltd now have no relationship whatsoever with the Auckland based company CMS Ltd or Computer Music Systerms Ltd.

However the transfer of shares into Sam Donaldsons name contained no restraint of trade clause, so Stage Sound Ent Ltd wasted no time in commissioning a highly skilled encoder to re-design the original software based concept but without any of the inherent weaknesses. The new system while aimed at the dry hire market is also suitable for smaller bars and restaurants etc without any modification whatsover. It has to date been used many times in party applications with total reliabillity and has performed as promised in every way. Major improvements over the old system are as follows. The left hand library box cannot be erased, lost or removed even temporarily. The search or ordering search engine is almost instant unlike the old far slower system. A program track pointer shows the user where in the playlist the program is playing and returns to the same point if a request is diplayed automatically. Playlists can be saved without a keyboard. Crossfading and volume normalising are included and the volume leveling system is very accurate. One key searches speed up track location and there are three ways of selecting a track to add to the list. Lists are easilly closed or opened using only the mouse and the length of the list is recorded in hours and minutes. Tracks can be high lighted for selection or rejection later. Dedicated lists can be made and stored by the administrator password protected section. The library list can be ordered by genre then by track or artist to stop bunching. This means that if there is no time to make a playlist, genre selection can be used without several tracks being played by the same artist.

Stage Sound are looking for partners and or users for this excting product, which we are prepared to develope to any standard of customisation for any application that has a viable market.

The Orginal DCM2000 History.

In 1996 Paul Johansen and Kevin Donnelly MSC embarked on an ambitious project based on an idea by Paul that would combine a data base with an Mp3 music player. At the time we thought this was a revolutionary concept although a French company called Delat was already using similar software in radio station applications. We of course did not know this. Two years and thousands of dollars later we began field trials in three North Shore Hotels. They were The Brownsy, The Glenfield Tavern and The Esplanade Hotel in Devonport.  A separate company called CMS Ltd broke away from Stage Sound in 1999 and went on to become NZ?s biggest Audio Video Music provider at the time.
Political differences resulted in Paul having to accept a complete split from CMS in 2005. Not to be discouraged Paul employed a highly competent encoder and completely re wrote the software for dry hire applications while retaining some of the better aspects of the original DMC2000 system. The object of this exercise was to produce a system that could be taught to ten year old children in 5 minutes. The original CMS was a great concept but it became over complicated disjointed and inherently unreliable mainly as the result of feature creep. The new software has overcome these issues totally and is easy to use and highly reliable.

The DMC2000 was years ahead of its time.