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Karaoke again

2007-09-10 by yeloc2

I am unclear about the Karaoke function of the Yamaha Mk4 disklavier. 
It is advertised in all markets as having this lyric display function 
on video out or the tablet, yet there seems to not be any music made 
for it. I read that the only lyrics you will get are from the tune 1000 
format and yet that site says there will be no live acoustic from  
those. So what software is working for the mk4 that utilizes the lyrics 
display and the acoustic piano parts that Yamaha advertises. Will the 
midis with embedded lyrics that you can get on the intenet work with 
live music and show the lyrics. 

Thanks and I hope someone can offer some helpful advise on this subject.

Re: [disklavier] Karaoke again

2007-09-10 by George F. Litterst

Good morning, everyone.

The lyric feature is available in the Mark IV. What is missing are MIDI files with great piano parts that that also use the lyric feature.

The most substantial collection of MIDI files that include lyrics is the Tune 1000 collection. However, since this collection tries to replicate the sound of famous groups--most of which do not feature a keyboard soloist. Therefore, few of these files have an interesting part for the Disklavier to play.

It should be noted that it is more costly to make MIDI files with lyrics (assuming that the lyrics were composed after 1922) because the lyrics have to be licensed as well as the music.

Regards,

PianoBench

On Sep 9, 2007, at 11:05 PM, yeloc2 wrote:

I am unclear about the Karaoke function of the Yamaha Mk4 disklavier.
It is advertised in all markets as having this lyric display function
on video out or the tablet, yet there seems to not be any music made
for it. I read that the only lyrics you will get are from the tune 1000
format and yet that site says there will be no live acoustic from
those. So what software is working for the mk4 that utilizes the lyrics
display and the acoustic piano parts that Yamaha advertises. Will the
midis with embedded lyrics that you can get on the intenet work with
live music and show the lyrics.

Thanks and I hope someone can offer some helpful advise on this subject.

Re: [disklavier] Karaoke again

2007-09-10 by Mark Fontana

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, George F. Litterst wrote:

> The lyric feature is available in the Mark IV. What is missing are
> MIDI files with great piano parts that that also use the lyric
> feature.

Tom Lear has taken a bunch of MIDI files derived from piano rolls and 
added lyrics to them.  They're hosted on Richard Stibbons' site:

   http://www.stibbons.com/karaoke.html

I've tested these on a Pianocorder system equipped with the 3' wide LED
matrix sign attachment for displaying lyrics (Superscan Display Console)  
and the lyrics show up OK.  The files also play OK in VanBasco's karaoke
player (a free MIDI karaoke player for Windows available at
http://www.vanbasco.com).

As far as I can tell, the karaoke information in Tom's files is in Tune
1000 format, so these ought to work on a Mark IV.  If they don't, only
minimal changes would be required to fix them (such as adding a missing 
header field or something similar).  We can determine what's missing by 
comparing a file that works with a file that doesn't work.

Mark Fontana