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AI Synchronization

Overview

The AI Synchronization tool allows users to synchronize song audio with lyrics to create karaoke files. This tool uses artificial intelligence audio processing techniques to generate high-quality outputs, including options for removing vocals and detailed processing.

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Key Features

How to Use

Step 1: Load Song

  1. Click the Load button or drag your MP3 file into the window.
  2. Ensure the file is of high quality and contains vocals

Step 2: Add Lyrics

  1. Paste lyrics into the Lyrics section using the Paste from Clipboard button or type them manually.
  2. Alternatively, use Import from file or Search the web to fetch the lyrics.

Important: For best results lyrics should match the song word-for-word.

Step 3: Configure Settings

  1. Artist and Title: Enter the artist's name and song title for metadata purposes.
  2. Vocal Removal:
    • Normal: Default vocal removal.
    • Best: Advanced removal mode (requires internet).
  3. Processing Mode:
    • Normal: Standard synchronization.
    • Detailed: For precise lyric alignment.
    • Alternate: For alternate processing methods.

Step 4: Set Project Folder

  1. Click the folder icon next to Project Folder to choose a location to save the output files.

Step 5: Start Processing

  1. Click OK to begin the processing. Downloads will start automatically if required.

Additional Functionality

Tips for Best Results

Advanced Options

General

AI

General

User Interface

Removing vocals

Power Vocal Remover is a tool that allows removing a lead vocal from a stereo recording. It bases on a common technique used in song mastering – lead vocal is usually mixed equally between both stereo channels.

To start AI Vocal Remover click AI Vocal Remover button on the toolbar (image.png) or select AI Vocal Remover from Toolbox menu.

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Files

Here you may select the input and the output of the processing. By default the input file is the current soundtrack and the output name is created by appending –music to the input name. You may also create a vocal-only track (it will have -vocal added to the name).

Output folder is where the files will be written to. 

Output format

You may create MP3 or WAV files. For MP3 format it is possible to adjust encoding parameters.

Processing mode

You may choose one of two processing modes, we recommend using Best, but if it does not work or is too slow, try Normal or Highest.
Keep backing vocals will run additional processing that tries to retain background harmonies, doubles, and other supporting vocal layers while removing the main vocal

Creating duets

Simple duets

Simple duet mode changes text settings using predefined duet styles to visualize the change of the singer. For more information please see section Using duet events.

 

Advanced duets

Karaoke Video Creator version allows to create professional parallel duets. The most important features are:

Duet Wizard that helps to assign lyrics to singers

Full duet synchronization mode

Divided screen for duets (Singer 1 at top and Singer 2 at the bottom of the screen) with separate settings for each of the singers

Please note that in tutorials section you will find Create song with duets tutorial.

 

General remarks

In duet mode Karaoke Video Creator divides the song in three modes: parts that are to be sung by Singer 1, those to be sung by Singer 2, and parts of the song sung together by both singers.

Parts sung by both singers are displayed in the same manner as the lyrics in non-duets song. But when Karaoke Video Creator finds duet part, it divides the screen into two parts and displays lyrics for singer 1 at the top, and lyrics for singer 2 at the bottom (see image above).

To enable duets in Karaoke Video Creator use Full duet mode toolbar button () or select Enable full duet mode from synchronization menu.

 

Non-split duets

If you do not wish to split the screen between two singers and rather have words for both singers displayed one after another, disable Full duet mode before creating karaoke file. Also the lyrics for both singers should interleave -- they need to be in the same order as they should be displayed (so in general this will be like duets in PowerKaraoke, but with concurrent highlighting.

 

 We have prepared an example that shows this -- it is brother john no split.pk2 file.

 

Multiple languages

Full duet mode can be used to create song in two languages. 


 

Please see brother john two languages.pk2 file located in Examples subdirectory of Karaoke Video Creator directory (usually C:\Program Files\Doblon\Karaoke Video Creator or Documents\My Karaoke\Karaoke Video Creator  Examples on Windows 7 or Vista).

 

DUET WIZARD

Duet Wizard allows to assign portions of the lyrics to each of the singers.

To start it click Duet Wizard button on the toolbar (image.png) or select Duet Wizard from Edit menu.

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 Lyrics assigned to Singer 1 are red, lyrics assigned to Singer 2 are blue, and those that should be sung together are grey.

 To assign a part of the lyrics to particular singer (or to both singers) select this part in the lyrics window (drag mouse to select the text) and then click Selection button next to the singer mode you want to use. Duet Wizard always uses full lines, so if you position the cursor in the middle of the line and then click Selection, entire line will be assigned.

 From cursor to end buttons allow to assign all song lyrics from the current cursor position to the end of the song to one of the duet modes.

 Set all will assign entire song to one of the modes.

 After you close Duet Wizard with OK you will see that Duet events have been inserted in the text of the song.

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 Please note that you can enter Duet Wizard many times and the current duet assignments will be the starting point for further editing.

 

 

FULL DUET SYNCHRONIZATION

To do this we need to enter full duet mode. To do this click Full duet mode button on the toolbar (image.png) or select Enable full duet mode from Synchronize menu. Duet tab control will appear above the lyrics editor.

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Duet tabs allow switching between duet modes. No duets is for editing lyrics -- it displays the entire text of the song. The other three are for each of the duet roles.

Selecting Singer 1 tab will activate Singer 1 duet mode. It will dim the lyrics that are not assigned for Singer 1 and preview will show Singer 1 lyrics only.

Duet tabs are used to synchronize the duet song. Unfortunately synchronizing duet songs takes three times as long as regular songs -- you have to synchronize part for both singers, and then individual parts for each of the two singers.

To continue with the tutorial try synchronizing the lyrics with the music. Select Both duet tab, click Synchronize entire song button on the toolbar, and synchronize the first and the last verse of the song. Then select Singer 1 tab, click Synchronize entire song button again and synchronize the second and the third verse. And finally synchronize Singer 2 -- this time start in the middle of the second verse.

 Please note that synchronization labels in the soundtrack panel are not visible in No duets mode -- you need to activate one of the duet tabs to display and edit them.

 

DUET SETTINGS

To adjust the settings for duets double-click any of the duet events (Duet dialog box will appear) and select Duet settings button to open Duet settings dialog box.

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Here you can define the text settings for Singer 1 and Singer 2 -- just select the mode on the top and adjust the settings. Please note that the number of lines apply to half of the screen only (Singer 1 uses the upper part and Singer 2 uses the lower part of screen). Settings for Both singers mode are copied from general settings.

Using events

Karaoke Video Creator gives you the full control over the karaoke video you create. You may change the text properties, colors, and display images anywhere in the song. These extra options are available by the means of events. Event is executed after the preceding word is painted or highlighted (it depends of the event, eg. Clear screen is triggered after highlighting, while Colors event during painting). This behavior may be changed for Set Background events, for which you may choose exact time of activation.

You work with events in the lyrics editor. They are displayed as boxes with text describing the type of the event.

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In order to insert a event position the cursor in the place the event should be inserted and right-click to open a context menu and select an event type from there, click the Insert Event button on the lyrics pane toolbar (image.png) or  select the Insert event menu command from Edit menu. Insert Event dialog box will appear, allowing you to select the event type from the list.

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Below is the list of events available in Karaoke Video Creator. After you select the type of the event another dialog box is displayed that allows to set the properties of the selected event type.

Clear Screen

Causes a screen to be erased after the last word before the event becomes highlighted

Colors

Allows to change colors for text (both normal and highlighted), effects, background, and border

Countdown

Inserts countdown mark before the next word that helps the singer to start on time

Display Image

Allows to display an image on the screen. Before the picture is displayed the screen is cleared.

Duet

Allows to change the coloring of the text to visualize the change of a singer
Duets can be parallel

Set Background

Changes the background of the video

Text Settings

Allows to modify the properties of the text

Events can be edited. To edit an event double-click it in the lyrics editor or right-click it and select Event Properties command from pop-up menu.

Events can be deleted like other text. There is one more editing feature available for events -- you may copy event and insert it in some other place in the song. to do this right-click an event to copy and select Copy Event command. Now right-click in the place you want the copy of the event to appear and select Paste Event command from pop-up menu.

 

CLEAR SCREEN EVENT

This event will cause a screen to be erased after the last word before the event becomes highlighted. 

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 You may select the mode that will be used to clear the screen (the default Simple is the fastest and results in immediate screen erase). Reverse will cause the effect to be reversed (ie. Left to Right will become Right to Left).

If scrolling display mode is selected, after clearing the screen lyrics will painted from the top of the screen.

 

COLORS EVENT

Colors event allows to change colors for text (both normal and highlighted), effects, background, and border.

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 Colors change will affect all words after the event. We do not recommend changing background and border colors in the middle of the page, only after of immediately before Clear screen events.

 

COUNTDOWN EVENT

Countdown event tells Karaoke Creator to display a countdown marker before the next word is highlighted. In the current version of the program countdown marker is a string of dots.

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 Countdown time defines the duration of the countdown (2 seconds by default).

 Number of items is the number of characters to display.

 Use repeated character select the default mode of repeating the single character several times. You may change the character used in Character to use field.

 Use text allows to enter text that will be used as a countdown. The text has to be entered into Text to use field.

 

DISPLAY IMAGE EVENT

Display Image event allows to display the image on the screen. Before the image is displayed the screen is cleared.

The image will be displayed immediately after the last word before it is highlighted. 

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 File

You need to select the file containing the image. The following formats are supported:

To invoke the file selection dialog box select Browse button.

By default Karaoke Creator leaves the images on the hard disk and reads them when needed (Link to file option selected). This behavior reduces the size of PK3 files and allows making changes to the images using image editors (you do not have to visit the event again -- just edit the image and re-create the song). However if you delete the image file from disk, it will not be available.

 If you would like to share your PK3 files select Insert contents option. It will cause Karaoke Creator to include the image in PK3 file, so you may send it over to a friend or delete image files. Note that if image source file is deleted you will not be able to edit it any more.

Keep on screen for N seconds

This setting controls how long will the image be visible before it is erased. Note that painting time (up to 10 seconds for a full screen sized picture) and erasing is not included, so the total time that the picture takes equals to the sum of painting time, display time, and erase time.

 Selecting 0 will cause the image to become erased immediately after it is fully painted.

Border color

Choose the color that will surround the image. Note that it is different than Borders color setting in Colors event, as it refers to the area not taken by the image, and not only to the border of the screen. If you are using image as a background (in Set Text Area event) the background color must match the background color of the text.

Display mode and Erase mode

These settings control the way image is painted and erased. By default images are painted from left to right and erased immediately. You may change it by selecting any of the display effects.

 Checking the Reverse checkbox will cause the effect to run backwards, for example Left to Right mode will become to Right to Left.

 Note that selecting Fade and Simple as Display mode will cause the screen to go blank for several seconds (the image still needs to be painted, and this is done in a way that is not visible, yet still takes time).

Alignment

You may select the position of the picture if it is not full screen sized. Simply select the appropriate rectangle. By default images are centered.

Force scaling

This option will force the image to be scaled to the size defined in Width and Height boxes. This size cannot be larger than the full screen (288 x 192).

Dithering

If the number of colors in the image is larger than 16, Karaoke Creator will reduce it. You may select the algorithm that is used to make the image look as good as possible with the lower number of colors. Selecting none will disable any dithering. The simples way to see how each of the algorithms works is to select it and then to click the Preview button.

Resizing

This setting controls the way image is scaled if its size is not 288 x 192 (full screen).

Fit will cause the image to be scaled up or down to take as much screen as possible.

Fit if larger (default setting) will scale the image only if it is too large, it will not stretch it.

Crop will not scale the image and will display as much of it as possible.

 All resizing modes retain aspect ratio of the image.

Preview

Click this button to see how the picture will look.

Notes

·    Images with more colors take longer to paint.

·    Inserting image in the middle of the song may use up the time and cause the loss of synchronization.

 

 

DUET EVENT

Duet event allows to change the current duet mode.

In regular version of Karaoke Video Creator duet mode changes the coloring and alignment of the text to visualize the change of a singer.

With full duet mode enabled duets can be parallel. The upper part of the screen is taken by Singer 1, and the lower by Singer 2. The lyrics for each of the singers are highlighted independently. Please see Creating duets section for more information.

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All words after the event will be colored according to the selected mode. Three duet modes are available:

·    Singer 1

·    Singer 2

·    Both 

You may view and change the predefined coloring and alignment assigned to duet modes by clicking Duet settings button.

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Mode allows to change the duet mode that you would like to modify. Only Singer 1 and Singer 2 modes are available -- for Both Karaoke Video Creator uses global settings for the song (as defined in Video Settings dialog box).

Color and Highlight allows you to change the color of the text assigned to the selected mode, while Alignment controls the alignment of the text assigned to the selected mode.

The duet settings are global for the song.

Note: Colors and Text settings flags overwrite the duet settings.

SET BACKGROUND EVENT

This event allows to change the background of the karaoke video. You may display an image (BMP, JPG, or PNG) or a movie (AVI or MP4).

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Current background

This window displays the current background (either set in Video Settings dialog box or by another Set Background event placed earlier in the song). If the current background is a movie you will see a first frame of the movie.

New background

This window displays the new background. Use Browse button to find the file you would like to display. You may use still images (BMP, JPG, and PNG formats are supported) or videos (MP4, AVI, MPEG, WMV).

Transition

Transition defines a way how the background will change from one to another. Several options are possible, you may also define the duration of the transition.

To change the background immediately set the duration to zero.

Preview

Here you can see how the transition will look like.

 

When to display

This is an advanced feature that allows to define the exact time of background change. By default new background is applied after the word preceding it has been sung. You may change this by selecting When next word begins. It is also possible to define time offset to be applied -- for instance selecting '10' will cause the background to be changed ten seconds after the word has been sung (or 10 seconds before the next word will be sung, if When next word begins is selected).

TEXT SETTINGS EVENT

Text Settings event allows to modify the properties of the text.

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Font

This setting specifies which font will be used for the lyrics and how large the letters should be. If you are trading you PK2 files make sure that you use fonts that are installed on the destination computer.

Vertical alignment

Allows to change the placement of the lines of the text. You may select Center, Top, or Bottom which would place the text at the appropriate part of the screen, or choose Space evenly, which makes sure that the first line is at the top, the last at the bottom, and all the spaces between the lines are equal.

Horizontal alignment

This setting controls the way the individual lines of text are placed. You have the choice of Center, Left, and Right.

Lines per screen

Allows to specify the maximum number of lines to be shown. Note that if the font size is too large, the actual number of lines may be lower.

Additional spacing

The number of pixels to insert between the lines.

Additional letter spacing

 You can add extra spacing between each letter of the word it the font you are using is too condensed.

Images

Karaoke Video Creator allows to display images anywhere in the song. It also has shortcuts for adding title and credits screen.

The following formats are supported by Karaoke Video Creator:

BMP (Windows bitmaps)

JPG

PNG 

To invoke the file selection dialog box select Browse button.

See the following topics for more information:

Using title and credit images

Displaying images in the middle of the song

Displaying images using styles

 

USING TITLE AND CREDIT IMAGES

Title image is displayed at the beginning of the song. Credits image is displayed at the end of the song, when the singing stops.

To define title and credit images open Video Settings dialog box click Video Settings button on the toolbar or select Video Settings command from Create menu.

Images

This group of options allows to select the pictures that are to appear before the song and after the song. By default these pictures are disabled. 

To display title image select Title checkbox and then click on Settings button. Display image dialog box will appear. To learn more about it please see Display Image event section.

The same procedure needs to be applied for credits image.

 

DISPLAYING IMAGES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG

To display image in the middle of the song place cursor position in the place that image should appear, click Insert Event button on the toolbar ({5FBADE3D-E2C3-4874-ABE0-B6ABA8455CCD}.png), and then select Display Image event type.

Display Image event allows to display the image on the screen. Before the image is displayed the screen is cleared.

The image will be displayed immediately after the last word before it is highlighted. 

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 File

You need to select the file containing the image. The following formats are supported:

To invoke the file selection dialog box select Browse button.

By default Karaoke Creator leaves the images on the hard disk and reads them when needed (Link to file option selected). This behavior reduces the size of PK3 files and allows making changes to the images using image editors (you do not have to visit the event again -- just edit the image and re-create the song). However if you delete the image file from disk, it will not be available.

 If you would like to share your PK3 files select Insert contents option. It will cause Karaoke Creator to include the image in PK3 file, so you may send it over to a friend or delete image files. Note that if image source file is deleted you will not be able to edit it any more.

Keep on screen for N seconds

This setting controls how long will the image be visible before it is erased. Note that painting time (up to 10 seconds for a full screen sized picture) and erasing is not included, so the total time that the picture takes equals to the sum of painting time, display time, and erase time.

 Selecting 0 will cause the image to become erased immediately after it is fully painted.

Border color

Choose the color that will surround the image. Note that it is different than Borders color setting in Colors event, as it refers to the area not taken by the image, and not only to the border of the screen. If you are using image as a background (in Set Text Area event) the background color must match the background color of the text.

Display mode and Erase mode

These settings control the way image is painted and erased. By default images are painted from left to right and erased immediately. You may change it by selecting any of the display effects.

 Checking the Reverse checkbox will cause the effect to run backwards, for example Left to Right mode will become to Right to Left.

 Note that selecting Fade and Simple as Display mode will cause the screen to go blank for several seconds (the image still needs to be painted, and this is done in a way that is not visible, yet still takes time).

Alignment

You may select the position of the picture if it is not full screen sized. Simply select the appropriate rectangle. By default images are centered.

Force scaling

This option will force the image to be scaled to the size defined in Width and Height boxes. This size cannot be larger than the full screen (288 x 192).

Dithering

If the number of colors in the image is larger than 16, Karaoke Creator will reduce it. You may select the algorithm that is used to make the image look as good as possible with the lower number of colors. Selecting none will disable any dithering. The simples way to see how each of the algorithms works is to select it and then to click the Preview button.

Resizing

This setting controls the way image is scaled if its size is not 288 x 192 (full screen).

Fit will cause the image to be scaled up or down to take as much screen as possible.

Fit if larger (default setting) will scale the image only if it is too large, it will not stretch it.

Crop will not scale the image and will display as much of it as possible.

 All resizing modes retain aspect ratio of the image.

Preview

Click this button to see how the picture will look.

Notes

·    Images with more colors take longer to paint.

·    Inserting image in the middle of the song may use up the time and cause the loss of synchronization.

 

DISPLAYING IMAGES USING STYLES

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.

Style editor

Style Editor allows you to create your own visual styles.

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 Style editing is done in visual manner. The first step is to select the style type in Style type combo box (you may create Title, Song, and Credit styles). Once you select the style type Current style combo box is filled with available styles of the selected type.

 There are two types of styles -- system (predefined) styles and user-defined styles. Predefined styles have * in front of their names and cannot be altered.

 Once you select a style from the Current style combo box the style preview will be displayed in Preview window. Also fields available for the selected style type will be displayed on Available styles list. Each of the style types has different fields.

 For Title and Credit styles you may change the background image, colors, and define the position and properties of text fields. To change the position of the text field select it on the Available fields list. The field will be displayed as a light blue rectangle on the preview area. Use mouse to change the position. You may also change the font, color, and alignment of the text fields.

 Song style does not have a text field, but has lyrics field. You may define the properties of the lyrics using Lyrics properties button. If you would like to use settings defined for the current song, use Load from current song button.

 

Adjusting program settings

To adjust Karaoke Creator settings, select Settings from the Tools menu.

Batch file create

Batch file create command from Create menu allows to write multiple files in one session.

 

 Use Add button to add PK2 files to the Input files list. Overwrite existing files without prompting will disable warning messages that might stop the batch process.

 Clicking OK will start processing. Please note that it may take a substantial amount of time if you add many files to the list.

 

Batch MIDI import

Sometimes it is necessary to convert several MIDI Karaoke songs into karaoke. This process cannot be fully automatized, however Karaoke Creator gives you the possibility to convert a batch of KAR songs without any user intervention. These songs can be opened and edited later to make sure they play correctly. Batch conversion saves time -- you do not have to select the songs and wait till they are recorded as WAV files, instead you choose the songs and let Karaoke Creator convert them all in a single process.

Important: Make sure that your MIDIs are converted correctly using Import MIDI Karaoke Wizard before using this feature.

To convert a batch of KAR songs select Batch MIDI Karaoke Convert command from the Import MIDI submenu of the File menu. Batch KAR Convertion dialog box will appear.

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 Add the files to convert using Add button. Note that you may add several files at once.

 If you would like to remove any of the files, use Remove button.

 Output directory points to the directory that will contain all WAV, PK3 and output karaoke files (CD+G or Video, depending on the product) created during the convertion.

 If you do not want to be warned that files are getting overwritten, check Overwrite existing files without prompting.

 Checking Create .PK3 files option makes sure that every song is saved in .PK3 document. This option makes possible to open and edit converted files afterwards.

 Selecting Don't show error messages ensures uninterrupted processing, but may result in bad results if some of MIDI files contain errors.

 All video tracks are created using the current settings. You may modify them using Video Settings command from Create menu.

Advanced lyrics import

 Import lyrics with timing command from Toolbox menu allows to import the lyrics stored in a text file along with the synchronization information.

 The sample text file might look like this:

 00:16.540 00:16.840 On

00:16.842 00:17.100 a

00:17.102 00:17.360 dark

00:17.362 00:17.660 desert

00:17.666 00:17.800 highway\n

00:19.010 00:19.300 Cool

00:19.429 00:19.521 wind

It contains the start and the end time of a word. The end of the line is marked by \n symbol.

 After the import is complete you may review the results by playing the file or inspecting time labels in the soundtrack panel.

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Lyrics file

Select the text file containing the lyrics.

File preview

Here you can see the contents of the selected file.

Time format

Choose the appropriate time format. Following formats can be used:

MM:SS.TTT

minute:second.millisecond

milliseconds

milliseconds only

SS.TTT

second.millisecond

File format

Select the format of the file. Following settings are available:

Begin time only

File contains only the start time of the word

Begin and end times

File contains both the start and the end time of the word
Separator

Choose the separator between start time, end time, and text. The defaults are any space or tab characters.

Max word length

If no end time for the word is given, PowerKaraoke assumes that the ending time is the beginning time of the next word, but word duration cannot be longer than value specified by this option.

New line

Enter the text string that is used to mark a new line of text. By default it is '\n'.

Exporting lyrics

You may export lyrics from Karaoke Creator lyrics editor to the text file. To do this select Export lyrics command from Toolbox menu.

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 Lyrics can be exported as a plain text (Lyrics only mode), they can contain starting time for the words (Lyrics and starting time mode), or both starting and ending time (Lyrics and full time mode).

 To write to Unicode text file make sure to select Use Unicode checkbox.

Automatic countdowns

Automatic countdowns command from Edit menu allows to insert countdown event after every instrumental break of the specified length.

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 Minimal break duration is a number of seconds of instrumental break after which countdown event will be inserted.

 Countdown settings allows to define settings for countdown events that will be inserted.

Text snippets

Often you may want to insert the same elements of the song multiple times into different songs. It may be your custom title page, instrumental break or a way you like to format song's chorus. You may use Text snippets to automate such tasks.

 Text snippet is a part of a song (lyrics and events) that can be reused. You may define as many text snippets as you like, you can also move them between computers.

 

To define a text snippet:

1.   Select the text you would like to save as a snippet

               

 

2.   Choose Text snippets from Edit window or right-click the selected text, choose Insert text snippet from a drop-down menu and then choose Edit snippets from a submenu

             

               

3.   Text Snippets window will open. You will see the text you have selected in the Preview field. Your snippet will be auto-named (you may change the name of the snippet by typing the new name in the name field and then clicking Rename button)

             

 

4.   You may switch between snippets by selecting them from the drop-down list. You may also remove currently selected snipped using Remove button.

5.   If you would like to insert a snippet using keyboard, you may define the hotkey for it. To do this use Assing hot key button. You may use combination of alphanumeric keys with SHIFT, ALT and CTRL.

6.   Selecting Close will save your snippet collection. Cancel will abandon the changes.

 

To insert a text snippet:

Position the cursor in the place you would like to insert the snippet and select Text snippets from Edit menu, choose the snippet to insert and click Insert

or

Right-click with your mouse and choose the snippet from Insert text snippet submenu

or

Use the hotkey defined for the snippet

 

To copy snippets to another computer:

Choose Export from Tools menu in Text snippets window. You will be able to choose a location of the file. All snippets will be saved. Move this file to a destination computer and choose Import there. You will be presented an option of replacing the snippets or appending them (with renaming if necessary).

File Properties

The File Properties window allows you to check and set various attributes of the current document.

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Searching for lyrics

Lyrics for most of the songs can be found on the internet. Karaoke Creator contains a helper tool that will run the search for lyrics online.

To search for the lyrics on the internet use choose Search the web for lyrics command from File menu.

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You may enter the name of the artist, the title of the song, and part of the lyrics of the song (if you remember them).

Karaoke Creator uses internal lyrics sources to search for lyrics. If lyrics cannot be found, a browser window with Google search will open allowing you to copy and paste the lyrics.