Midi Karaoke files?

2002-05-07 04:30 am

I can enter lyrics very nicely in NWC, but I am
wondering if NWC can export the lyrics with the
MIDI file as a Midi Karaoke file (extension .kar)?

Re: Midi Karaoke files?

Reply #1 – 2002-05-07 04:48 am

No, not directly. However, you can use an external karaoke editor to "convert" the midi files generated by NWC to karaoke format. The one I use is by Edwin van Veldhoven, and is called Karakan. It works with Win3.x on up (not sure about Win2k, XP etc.) It's quite easy to use, the hyphenation protocol is very similar to NWC's lyric editor system; so you can highlight the lyrics in NWC, CNTL-C to copy to clipboard, then shift focus to Karakan and CNTL-V to paste it into its lyric editor.

You have to know which midi track contains the lyric notes, so it can align the text to the notes; in general, this will just be which staff number the lyrics are on. For example, if your lyric staff is the third staff from the top, it will export to the third midi track.

That should be enough to get you started. ;-)

Re: Midi Karaoke files?

Reply #2 – 2002-05-08 06:59 pm

Thanks Fred!
I'll give it a try.

Re: Midi Karaoke files?

Reply #3 – 2002-09-02 10:40 am

Things change. Go and see https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=2580 :-)