The MIDI file must in format 0, the single track MIDI format.
#Tune 1000 midi karaoke files professional
It is defined as the professional MIDI format. Examples Love Crosbyĭeveloped by Tune 1000, and also used by Roland for its arrangers (E500, E96, RA800, E68, G800 et G1000), by Technics (KN5000 for example) and some Farfisa keyboards. Example Title of song, artist, sequencer (SEQ). This way these programs will display the information in the 'Title' and 'Artist' columns in their directory window. It is a good idea to put the song title on the first line, and to put the artist on the second line. Some karaoke programs extract part of this 'header' information. If the text starts with /, it means to go to the next line. If the text starts with \, it means to clear the screen and show the words at the top of the screen. Each event is the syllable that is supposed to be sung at the time of the event. The rest of the track contains the words of the song. The text of those events will show up in the upper right corner of the Soft Karaoke program window. You can have up to three events like these. The next couple of events start with which identifies the title of the songs. The first event is It identifies the language the words are in, which is English. The second track contains the text events for the lyrics of the song. Anything starting with is any information you want to include in the file. KARAOKE FILE is used to for that purpose. The first track contains text events that are used to make the file recognizable by Karaoke program as a MIDI Karaoke file. Structure of a typical karaoke (.kar) file: Therefore Tune1000 developed new format in format 0. The format was good but had only one problem for use with keyboards, it was in midi format 1 and many keyboards only support format 0 midi.
#Tune 1000 midi karaoke files how to
The format has some advantages, it contains fields started by to enter title author, language that can be easily used by midi karaoke players (standard midi files have not these important text fields, therefore it is not standardized how to enter this information into midi files), it contains simple format characters to break paragraphs and lines (but has bad hidden limitation of max 4 lines per paragraph).The reason for using text meta events instead of lyrics is not clear, there is no advantage,probably was a mistake by format developer. kar format was originally developed by Tune 1000 for a commercial product (Soft Karaoke, 1993). Karaoke Formats Karaoke Formats Soft Karaoke