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Create karaoke song with PowerWizard

PowerWizard: Create Your First Karaoke Song with Karaoke CD+G Creator

Starting PowerWizard

To start PowerWizard, click the New Song Wizard toolbar button (image) and choose Synchronize lyrics manually.

Soundtrack

The next step is choosing the soundtrack to use for the song.

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To load the soundtrack, click the Browse button and navigate to the audio file you want to use.

After the file is loaded, its name and playback time will be displayed in the wizard window. Karaoke CD+G Creator can use WAV and MP3 files as soundtracks.

Remove Vocals

PowerWizard allows you to remove vocals from the song. More information on removing vocals can be found in the Removing vocals section.

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To proceed to the next step, click the Next button.

Lyrics

Now it is time to provide lyrics for the song.

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There are several ways to add lyrics to the song. You may:

  • Type lyrics in (you may listen to the song as you type -- use the Play button to control playback).
  • Use web search for lyrics; Karaoke CD+G Creator automatically opens a browser window and searches using provided details (song title and artist name). More on lyrics search can be found in the "Search for lyrics on the web" section.
  • Paste lyrics from the clipboard (select lyrics in a web browser or text editor, copy them, and paste into Karaoke CD+G Creator).
  • Import lyrics from a text file.

To proceed to the next step, click the Next button.

Synchronizing Lyrics

This step is the most challenging in the process of creating a karaoke song. You must synchronize the lyrics to the music.

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During synchronization, Karaoke CD+G Creator highlights words one by one. Your task is to tap the space bar when the word is sung. To start synchronizing, press the Start synchronizing button. When finished, click Done or press the Enter key.

Check the synchronization by clicking the Test button and adjust if needed.

Tips for Synchronization:

  • Use the speed control to slow playback (e.g., 0.5 speed).
  • Use the Go Back button if you miss the beat; the Rewind button rewinds playback but doesn’t move highlighting.
  • If working on a new song, synchronize it from start to finish, then do it again for better accuracy.
  • Refer to the "Advanced synchronization" section for more tips.

To proceed to the next step, click the Next button.

Wizard Is Done

The wizard is complete — most of the work is done.

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Now you have three choices:

  1. Apply a visual style to the song — Opens the Styles dialog for applying song templates.
  2. Adjust synchronization or edit the song — Fine-tune the song, edit lyrics, or fix synchronization errors.
  3. Create file — Takes you directly to file creation.

If Save the song before continuing is checked, you’ll be prompted to save the song. Karaoke CD+G Creator saves songs in PK3 files. Note: Saving files is disabled in demo mode.

Karaoke CD+G Creator Main Window

Now is a good time to learn about the main window of Karaoke CD+G Creator.

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On the top you see common Windows interface items -- menu bar and toolbar.

 Left side of the window is occupied by the soundtrack panel. It displays a waveform of the current soundtrack, and on top of it labels that correspond to the synchronized words.

 Right side of the window contains the shortcut bar. It contains shortcuts to most frequently used commands. Shortcut bar changes with context -- if you do not need it any more you may close (to display it again use Shortcut bar command from View menu). To leave the shortcut bar visible, but to disable animations, select Preferences from File menu and uncheck Animate shortcut bar option.

The main area of the screen is taken by the lyrics editor. It consists of two parts -- preview window on the top (you may close is with Preview toolbar button ) and lyrics area below.

 Preview window displays the CD+G preview of the current part of the lyrics -- this is how your song will look on the TV screen. If your computer is slow, rendering preview make take a long time and your work will be uncomfortable. To avoid this either hide the preview window or disable automatic updates (clicking Update button will render the preview at the current cursor position).

 Lyrics area allows to edit the lyrics text, insert CD+G events, and adjust synchronization of the words.

Styles

Now is a good time to make the song look better using style templates.

To apply a predefined visual style to your song click Styles button on the toolbar ({DC368090-BAB1-4DE9-85D3-1AAFD5C6FF2B}.png) or select Styles command from Create menu.

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 Song details section of the dialog box allows you to enter title of the song, artist name, and text that will be displayed as your company information (probably something like Presented to you by DOBLON). Credits are displayed after the song is finished.

                Tip: To force a new line in Title, Artist, or Company name fields, use ^ character.

 

What is style?

Karaoke Creator allows to set styles for:

·    Title: image displayed before the song

·    Credits: image displayed after the song is finished

·    Song: colors, text formatting, page layout, and image (in Pro version only) of the lyrics

 

Each of this styles can be applied individually, or it is possible to use presets.

 Style preset combo box allows to select one of predefined templates. It will change all styles in Applied styles. You may store your combination of Title, Song, and Credit styles using Add button. To save changed combination use Save button. Delete button removes your preset from the list.

 Applied styles lists styles used for each of the sections of the song. To change the style select it in Applied styles list and then choose the new style from Available styles combo. Selecting (Unused) will disable the style.

 Style editor button starts Style Editor dialog box which allows you to create your own styles.

 Preview window displays the preview of the style selected in Applied styles list.

 Selected styles will be applied to the song when you select OK button.

 To continue with the tutorial select Rock style preset and click OK button.

Adjust Parameters

You may want to adjust CD+G settings to your liking. To open the CD+G Settings dialog box, click the CD+G Settings button on the toolbar or select the CD+G Settings command from the Create menu.

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To learn more about the CD+G Settings dialog box, see the Modifying CDG settings section.

When satisfied with the text appearance, click OK.

Create CD+G File

Now we are ready to create a CD+G file. For simplicity, let’s leave the settings at their default values. An MP4 file will be created.

Playing Karaoke CD+G Files

Karaoke CD+G Creator has Power CD+G Player included, so you may test your creation. However we recommend Siglos Karaoke Player/Recorder for CD+G playback.

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