/* $Id: README,v 0.1 96/01/04 09:00 taieb Exp $ */ Copyright (c) 1995/1996 Jean Pierre Cocatrix/Laurent Taieb KARALIN : A MOTIF Karaoke Player Overview -------- This software is a porting of the KARADOS Karaoke player. 1. Files supported ------------------ It manipulates 2 types of Karaoke Files : * <.kar> files : Which include both lyrics ans music. * <.mid> & <.txk> files : Which are respectively midi and lyrics files. 2. How it works ? ----------------- Karalin is splitted into 4 processes : a- A Midi selector called <kdir> which has to be launched by the user b- A Midi Music Viewer called <kmusic> which is launched by kdir c- A Karaoke Lyric Viewer called <klyric> which is launched by kmusic d- A Midi Player called <kplay> which is launched by kmusic The user has only to launch <kdir> to play with Karalin. The first time the user launch <kdir>, he/she has to fill a form which indicates the type of sound board he has, the directories, the patch files or the bank files are present. Then these informations are stored in a personal resource file called <.karalinrc> which is stored in the user's home directory. 3. kdir ------- . <kdir> allows only to select a midi/karaoke file to be played by kplay and shown by <klyric> and <kmusic>. . When the user select a new karaoke file while another is playing, the new one replaces the old one. . A configuration panel is provided by the Setup button Limitations : This is an alpha -- version of kdir, it doesn't allow multi file playing nore random access... The next version will cover more features 4. kmusic --------- . <kmusic> is the process that manages the remote control and the Music Window a. Remote Control : This window allows the user to : . Iconify/Restore the Selection, Lyrics, Music Windows . Play/Pause a song (Play by default) . Return to the beginning of the song (Home) . Go Page Up/Down of a song (Not yet implemented) . Play song really faster . Exit of karalin . Select Previous/Next Song (Not yet implemented, with A fully future kdir selector) . By an optionnal Toggle Button Vol/Beat/Transpose : . Increase/Decrease Volume . Increase/Decrease Beat . Increase/Decrease Octave b. Music Window This Window is designed to show graphically all Midi Note on/off in a flat led area. It shows also the intruments present in the midi file and provides a view of some midi controlers. Moreover, users can select the volume played on each canal and can decide to mute a channel or to select exclusively one or some channels. The rythme of the song is updated in real time in the upper left corner of the window. 4. klyric --------- This window is designed to show lyrics associated withs music in a karaoke file. The text of the song is shown one received by the player. Each time , a note on/off arrives from the player, the background color changes and the text scroll in the scrolled Window. No action are taken into account from operator in this window. 5. kplay -------- This process is not associated with an X window. Its role is to analyse the karaoke file(s) , to send commands to the Voxware driver and to send messages to the other processes . ------------------------------- More info available at: - On the karaoke for computer take a look at http://www.teleport.com/~labrat/karaoke.shtml This page contains all the last news for the karaoke people and all available songs. More songs are available at - The labrat page - ftp://kdr.syr.edu/karaoke Features -------- - Fully Midi karaoke software - General midi compatible - Support of the most 'graphical' controlers - Graphical view of Music - Easy to use Limitations ----------- Only on Unix/XWindow/Motif/Pc !!!! No way for the moment to provide a static version of karalin. I hope it will be possible in a soon future. Sorry for the poor sound on SoundBlaster boards . No way with these boards to get a sound which looks like an instrument sound (with midi) And many others.... Mailing lists ------------- Questions, suggestions, may be sent to Laurent.Taieb@ansf.alcatel.fr To subscribe/unsubscribe to this mailing list send requests to Laurent.Taieb@ansf.alcatel.fr Send bugs to me, using the bug-report template file. Authors Information Laurent.Taieb@ansf.alcatel.fr laurent.@fanny.frmug.fr.net
