Karaoke

The karaoke support inside MIDI Locator allows you to display and edit lyric events of MIDI songs. First, a description of the paramters which can be changed inside MIDI Locator's settings regarding karaoke.

Karaoke support during record

If you press CTRL-W (like word) during record, an empty placeholder is inserted as a lyric event. So you can enter CTRL-W on each syllable of your song, and later enter the text in the MIDI editor.



If MIDI Locator loads a MIDI song with song text events...

... if a song text event is detected, all characters 10 (hex 0A) and 13 (hex 0D) are exchanged by the usual karaoke new line character "/". If a song text event only has one character, and it is a white space " ", the event will be ignored.

If MIDI Locator opens the karaoke window on play...

...it is putting song text events together in one text row, if they belong to same measures, and adds a white space " " on each event's text, if there isn't already a white space " " at it's end and you have set the parameter "Insert missing blank..." to "on". In addition, some special characters at the beginning of the text have an influence on how text is put on the karaoke window :