Karaoke w/ Sonar & softsynths

[Englebert]

Okay (*takes a deep breath*)... I like MIDI karaoke (you guys back there, stop laughing). It´s fun and it´s a great way to practice singing. And it´s great drinking activity too.

The problem is that despite excessive searching, I haven´t found a MIDI karaoke player that would support software synths. I used to get by with my old soundcard´s half-decent GM wavetable synth, but my current card has no internal sounds. Besides, my softsynths would anyways offer vastly superior sounds compared to any crappy GM chip.

Using Sonar and its lyrics view as a karaoke machine would solve the problem, but as always, it´s not that easy. I have lots of karaoke files (.kar), that work flawlessly when I load them into a karaoke player (VanBasco´s MIDI Karaoke) But for some reason only few of the files show lyrics correctly in Sonar. Most of them seem to have no lyrics at all.

Any ideas? Or does somebody know a karaoke player with soft synth support?

And please stop laughing.

[James Argo]

How about this one

http://www.globalshareware.com/Mp3-A...er-Karaoke.htm

or you can lurk here...

http://www.ubikmusic.com/midiring/utilities.html

<---- sorry, I couldn't help my self LOL

[moskus]

Originally posted by Englebert
Any ideas? Or does somebody know a karaoke player with soft synth support?

Can't you just use something like Hubi's loopback device to send the MIDI data from the karaoke file to Sonar and DXis?

[Englebert]

Originally posted by moskus
Can't you just use something like Hubi's loopback device to send the MIDI data from the karaoke file to Sonar and DXis?

How would I do that? I´m a bit novice with MIDI routing and stuff, since I work mostly with audio.

[moskus]

I don't know exactly, I've only used it once. But you install it and get some internal MIDI devices. You select one virtual device as the playback in the Karaoke player, and set it up in Sonar so that the same port is linked to your DXis.

Just have a go at it, it's pretty easy.

[tombuur]

Englebert, I can't help you. But if you come across some good karaoke player, let me know.

I am looking into this too. I have friends, students, colleagues perform. They have a great time, and I have fun playing some guitar solos in the middle of it all. Even though some text is in Danish you can get an idea of what I did last with my medical students: www.insomnia.suite.dk Note the balloons in Bohemian Rhapsody, helium was required for the girls to hit the high notes.

What I need is a player that can run both wav and midi files and show the lyrics on full screen, not some window in a corner. Then I'll attach a projector to a laptop and run everything from there.