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
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 (
) or select Duet Wizard from Edit menu.
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.
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 (
) or select Enable full duet mode from Synchronize menu. Duet tab control will appear above the lyrics editor.
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.
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.