KaraFun Karaoke Player... Getting Started

Welcome to KaraFun karaoke player

KaraFun redefine the karaoke on PC. Powerful and easy-to-use, KaraFun improves constantly the playback and the creation of your karaoke songs. Well up on users feedback, our development team works hard to grant your wishes and offer the best PC karaoke software. For many fans, KaraFun has become one important part the success of their karaoke parties! We hope that KaraFun will give you a lot of fun and pleasure, and we will continue to share our passion.

The KaraFun Team


Installation

Before installing KaraFun, check that:
  • Your PC configuration meets the system requirements
  • Your drivers (video card and sound card) are up to date
  • You have the lastest version of KaraFun

    • After installing KaraFun, 4 windows are displayed on the screen: the main window, the control window, the karaoke library window and the display window when a track is played.

    First, you can check that KaraFun is correctly configured for your PC: right-click on the main window or click on the upper left corner to display the main menu, then click on Options. In the Audio / MIDI tabsheet, check that playback and recording devices are OK.

    Karaoke player: the main window

    KaraFun karaoke player

    (1) The main menu: which is common to the player, control and karaoke library windows. The main menu consists of the following items:
  • About...(14): software version, keyboard shortcuts and system info
  • View file info...: Display general and technical information about the karaoke you are playing. Change the background (image or preset) if the karaoke file type allows it (KAR, CD+G, KFN, KOK or LRC type file)
  • KaraFun Editor: Run the karaoke creation tool. Create your own karaoke files in KFN format or karaoke presets in KFP format
  • Control (12) and Karaoke Library (13): to show or hide theses windows
  • Open... (11): to open and play a specific karaoke
  • Playback (4): same functions as the navigating buttons
  • Display: this menu is equivalent to the one from the display window witch can be displayed by a right click or from the upper left button of the display window when a track is playing
  • Various links to KaraFun and Karaoke version website


    • (2) The main display screen: display on the left the title, the author and the year, and on the right the state (active, inactive, combined) of the different playback mode about the track you are playing

    (3) Track Slider: Move it to jump from one part of the track to another

    (4) Navigation buttons: go to the next or previous track in the playlist with the << and >> buttons. If the playlist is empty, pushing Play is like pushin the Eject button

    (5) Training Mode: this mode is optimized for an easy and customized reading. It helps to become more familiar with the lyrics. You can modify the font type, size, style, text position and maximum lines count in the options

    (6) Text Highlighting Mode: There are two ways for highlight the text when the karaoke is playing: per blocks or gradually (line per line). The kind of highlighting can be defined in the KFN file, in that case, both of the BLOCKS and LINE lights are on

    (7) Syncs Mode: to be warned when the next syncs are coming. Each bubble means a synchronization, it's now easy to know when you have to sing again after a solo!

    (8) Extra Tracks: by default, no guide is activated (note icon). An extra track can be a guide melody (guitar icon), a guide vocal (upper microphone icon) or your voice (upper microphone icon with note icon) if you've recorded it. All these additional tracks are mixed with the backing track. You can also reduce their volume level individually in the control window

    (9) Volume slider: adjust the volume by moving it

    (10) Microphone Recording: click on the microphone button to activate the recording device set in the Audio/MIDI options. The recording device must be activated to click on the record button. Choose a song and sing! More info about voice recording...

    Karaoke player: the karaoke library window

    This window contents both the playlist and the list of all your karaoke files and discs.

    The left column allows to access the playlist, the default songs directory, My Documents and your local drives.
    The right part fits according to the choice done on the left:
  • The Playlist: added tracks are displayed sorted. You can add more songs manually, delete, sort by title, artist, file or at random, save your playlist in KPL format, open a saved one, specify if you want to loop the playlist, manual playlist advance, and get informations on a specific song
  • Another menu item: unlike the Windows explorer, only the karaoke files and discs are displayed (the list of the corresponding file types are in the General tabsheet of the Options). Except the folders, karaoke are directly displayed and sorted by title, artist and length and not by filename, to make the navigation easier.

    • If you click on Play, the selected song will erase the current playlist and will play. Click on Enqueue to add the selected song at the end of the playlist.

    You can get information about the selected karaoke by clicking on the Info button. If this song don't have a background, you can put one: either a jpeg image, or a karaoke preset. All the playback information are saved in a database ("played.db" file from the KaraFun Data folder).

    Karaoke player: the control window

    This window allows to modify in realtime the playback parameters of the current played song.

    In the General section, you can:
  • Change the key of the song, from +/- 6 semitones (= 1 octave). This function don't modify the playback speed. This function is also called Pitch Shifting
  • Modify the song speed, from +/- 50%. This function don't change the tone of the song except for the karaoke whitch the audio source is based on a video. This function is also called Timestretching
  • Try to reduce the level of vocal range on an original MP3 songs (may reduce instruments in same range).

    • In the Microphone part, you can test and adjust the input and output signal of your microphone.

    In the Extra Tracks part, you can change various parameters of the active additional audio track (keynote button) : change its volume, put an echo effect, or activate the Automatic Guide Cancel (when a singer is listening to the guide melody or the guide vocal on any karaoke file and starts singing into the microphone, the guide stops, when he stops singing into the microphone the guide comes back).

    Karaoke player: the display window

    In order to change the current karaoke display, right-click on the display window or click on the upper left corner of the titlebar. The Display menu appears. You can:
  • Change quickly the window size: half size (320x240), normal size (640x480) or best size (1024x768)
  • Activate the fullscreen mode. If you want to active this mode by default, go in the Options, Display tabsheet, and check "Start in fullscreen"
  • Activate the training mode, the syncs mode, or switch the additional audio tracks. You can also define theses modes by default in the options
  • Get information about the played karaoke, change karaoke background
  • View display and training mode properties in the options.

    • Finally, don't hesitate to customize KaraFun with the options. But most of all, have fun and sing some great songs!
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