Creating Songs
For creating your own karaoke songs you need
- an MP3 audio file
- the lyrics
- the melody (if you have, from a midi or kar file)
- check the copyright
Again, please check your local copyright laws. In some countries it is still a breach of copyright to copy, reproduce or adapt copyright material for personal or private use without permission from the copyright owner. Normally, you are not allowed to copy, distribute, display, or perform copyrighted work or derivative works based upon it.
Yass will guide you through the song creation. It involves these steps:
- Specifying a melody file (optionally, but strongly advised)
- Choosing the vocals from the melody file
- Entering the lyrics and defining syllables using a minus "-" hyphen (kar files already include them)
- Adding metadata
- Finetuning in the editor
Tapping Notes
If you want to create your karaoke song from scratch (or your midi/kar file turns out to be messy), you can define note position and length by tapping.
To tap notes:
- Select the notes you want to tap.
- Start recording (Ctrl-r)
- Press any key to start a note.
- Release the key to end a note.
- Recording stops after all selected notes are tapped (or press ESC).
Creating Song Versions
Karaoke songs can have song versions:
- Revised karaoke data or metadata
- Player-specific notes or melodies (solos, duets, trios, canons...)
- Alternative audio/video, e.g. karaoke intrumentals
- Alternative languages
Yass recognizes a song version by square brackets [...] appended to the title, like e.g. [UPDATE], [DUET], [P1], [P2].
The canon Brother Jacob (download song), for example has multiple language tracks, each with a different initial gap.
Unknown - Brother Jacob [ENGLISH].txt
Unknown - Brother Jacob [GERMAN].txt
Unknown - Brother Jacob [FRENCH].txt
Unknown - Brother Jacob [POLISH].txt
You can select multiple songs to compare and edit song versions.