It’s that time of the year when song and dance are mandatory, fun and games widespread, and joyous moods omnipresent. It’s all too predictable that singing, as a form of expressing one’s happiness, will be popular: at clubs, homes, gatherings, and on the road. Even if most of us can't sing to save our lives, who cares, it’s real fun. Especially at the mall, with hundreds of people milling around you...
A few pointers before we go on: karaoke uses files called CD+G, where the G stands for graphics, so that could be a lyric sheet or something of the sort. MP3+G files exist too, and these can be created, manipulated, or deleted. In this article I shall dwell on karaoke tools for the above-mentioned file processes, so download them and sing away!
Karaoke Anything!
Publisher: Atomic media
DL: 1
This freeware offers a very cool feature that lets you strip the vocals from a track and save the rest. You can sing over it and show 'em how it’s done. It’s a small file, with no fancy GUI or anything; it just does its job, though not to full satisfaction. The results vary from song to song; basically mono recorded vocals in the center are easily removed; in fact this is done very well. But vocals with excess reverb and effects sound muddy. Still, most popular songs (those that you'd want to sing over) have their vocals satisfactorily removed.
Another small issue is that it does not save the wav file; it only happens real time. But we have a solution for that: you can select stereo mix in your soundcard’s record choice and use any audio recorder software to record in real-time what’s happening.



