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Creating
a Master Karaoke CDG Song is Easy!
CREATE
A PROJECT FILE
Karaoke
Pro creates a project for each song to save your work. You can
finish the song or open a project at any time, make changes. You can
copy a project to make major changes from the original. When done,
simply export your mastered karaoke CDG song and use Microstudio
(optional) to assemble and write it with other songs to a karaoke cdg
disc for karaoke players.
SELECT
SETTINGS
You
can select all the parameters that control the appearance of your
master karaoke song. There are three tabs that separately control the
Title Page, the Lyrics area, and a Credits Page at the end.
You
can select the colors, any TrueType 1-byte or Unicode 2-byte font,
point size and other text attributes, text horizontal and vertical
positioning and graphic images and fade in/out parameters. Select to
highlight the words or the background, and have lines continuously
replace after they highlight or appear on new pages. You can now
create solo karaoke cdg songs, and create duets in our upcoming
version. Any parameter can change before creating your song on your
hard drive, save the project, and open it and make edits or change
selections and export a new version of your song.
ADD
THE MUSIC
Karaoke
music can be any .wav file on your hard drive. Some music sources
are: imported from Audio or Karaoke CD's with Microstudio, use Vogone
to reduce the vocals, have a musician create it, synthesize it from
MIDI files, or buy music without the vocals. If you add a Title page,
the music and lyrics will automatically delay so the lyrics start
after the Title Page, and continue until a Credits Page appears. You
do not need an audio editor program with Karaoke Pro.
IMPORT
OR ENTER THE LYRICS
The
song lyrics can import from a file downloaded over the Internet, or
enter them directly in the Edit Lyrics Screen. After synchronizing
the lyrics to the music you can edit any misspellings and even add or
remove words and change the lines they are on.
SYNCHRONIZE
THE LYRICS
Karaoke
Pro makes synchronizing the lyrics to the music so easy that anyone
can produce a perfect song. While playing the music, you simply tap
the Spacebar key where each word is to start highlighting. Tapping
the Ctrl key stops the highlighting where the singer is to pause.
KPro automatically creates the variable speed highlighting to make it
easy to sing. You can synchronize the lyrics to music with the vocal,
then replace with vocal reduced music, or create master songs with
and without vocals.
ADJUST
THE SYNCHRONIZATION
After
you synchronize the lyrics, click the Adjust Lyrics Screen button to
play. If you see a word highlighting that is not in perfect sync, tap
the spacebar to stop play and automatically select that word. The
Adjust Play button allows loop playing on a few words before and
after the selected word. As you see how the start of the highlighting
needs adjusting, simply tap the < and > keys to visually adjust
the selected lyric word(s) while looping on that area. Use the Ctrl
key with < and > keys to adjust the lyric highlight ending.
Continue playing until you find another word that needs adjusting.
You can randomly start play at any point to view the highlighting.
The
Advance sweep control moves all the lyrics to start highlighting
sooner to the music. This removes your response time when tapping in
the lyrics, and makes the highlighting start before the singer is to
start so they are exactly with the music. WIth KPro you will create
perfectly synchronized songs every time.
MTU
is the first in the world to ship a mastering digital audio
workstation. We are expert at mastering concepts including displaying
audio waveforms and editing. However, when synchronizing karaoke
lyrics to music, viewing a waveform will cause you to damage the
synchronization! KPro does not show a waveform because it is expertly
engineered to insure you will get every word in perfect sync, while
you simply focus your mind like a singer.
KARAOKE
PLAYER
Click
the Play Screen button to preview your song exactly as it will
appear in a Karaoke Player. The professional highlighting speeds up
and slows down to show how long to sing each word.
WRITE
A CDG DISC
To
write to a CD Burner, use the Microstudio software that comes with
the Karaoke Suite #4 (or optionally available) to assemble your songs
with others into the track order you want on the master karaoke cdg
disc, and an MTU CDG certified CD Burner. Our Microstudio free demo
allows you to test your CDR to see if it can read and write the CDG
disc format.
What
You Need To run Karaoke Pro you need the following:
The
Karaoke Pro software. You can save on our four Karaoke programs with
the Karaoke
Suite #4 that includes:
*Karaoke
Pro to add the lyrics to the music and create the CDG format file.
*Microstudio
to assemble your songs and write them to a cdg disc.
*Vogone
to reduce or eliminate vocals from music songs.
*Keyrite
to pitch change the key of karaoke or audio songs for your voice.
*A
CDG Certified CD Recorder.
*A
PC computer with: Windows (98SE, ME, 2000 or XP Pro or Home), at
least a 700MHz processor (Celeron, Pentium II, III or IV, or AMD
Duron, Athelon,a K6 will NOT run Vogone), 64MB of RAM (128MB with
Windows 2000/XP), at least 2GB of free hard drive space, and a Video
display card with 8MB or more of RAM (but not an S3 video card).
You
MUST have a Network (Ethernet) card or port in your computer. KPro
security is tied to the MACID of a Network card to generate your
Serial Number. The KProID.exe program will detect all the Network
ports/cards and show them all to you. You will select one and send it
to our web site form, which automatically verifies you own the
product before it will allow you to request a Serial Number. We then
manually verify your database record for ownership again, and if
approved we manually generate your Serial Number and send it to you.
This will allow you to install and run KPro only on the computer with
that MACID/Network card. If you don't have a Network card, buy a USB
card from MTU for US$32.00. This allows you to move KPro to a
different computer that has the USB Card plugged into it.
Karaoke
cdg software is MTU´s business:
Karaoke
companies use to pay $30,000 for a system to combine the lyrics in
sync with the music. In 1998 an MTU client who produces a well known
Karaoke label asked them to write this software. They developed and
started shippingKaraoke Pro in July, 1999.
MTU
has the digital audio background as the first in the world to ship a
microcomputer that records and plays for mastering digital audio music.
MTU
has the skills from 32 years of developing computer audio mastering
products, including contracts with Sony and ODME Media Morphics Div.,
the world's leading provider of CD manufacturing equipment.
MTU
is committed to developing the software technology to make it easy
to create master karaoke songs. That is their business, and we are
here to distribute their great products to you! |
