Intro

KaPlaReD (Karaokee Player and Recorderp with Drums code name N'keybDrum) is successor over KaReK, same type of software from 2003. but no signle copy was sold. So here it is, new interface, a lot of old code and many features added. Concept.is the same,  "All-In-One" fun for whole family. It means that every member of family can record their voice (while singing with help of lyrics showing on screen in the rhythm of music) and ("I don't know but I've been told , Everybodyl loves Drums".) kids can learn and play electronic drums on personal computers. This drums give people real "feel and look" of drums because it involves keyboard (N'keybDrum - custom designed keyboard for hands) and mouse (N'micedrum - custom mouse for legs, bass and hi-hat pedals). Whole software is very educational, drum can be used as didactical tool, and can be even used for recording custom audio effects. Now you can add effects on midi files (DirectMusic) and wave files (DirectSound). You can also add effects on voice (microfone) but I must admit, that this part is not so usefull. Every particular task (job) now have it own window so Recorder is independent from other parts, you can record your karaoke singing, speech, drums or whatever and save that audio file in wave format with mp3 codec. Yu can also play several audio files at the same file, like midi with effects, wave with effects, mp3 file in audio player and than kids can play drums and record all this noise. This is all "deja vu", but this software has several things that are not so common. First of all, one tehnical detail, after many years I finally succeded to make synchronize of music and lyrics (karaoke words) with DirectX music time, not with any kind of timers or high-level API's. Second, you can convert lyrics to smi format (this format us used by Microsoft Media Player to show subtitles of video files). They called "closed captioning" or SAMI. Converter will aslo prepare htm file, so it can be played over internet and user will see caraoke words. Third, there is custom made style file (with DiretMusic Producer, for drums sound) so in "Play mode"  alll drums sound are from GM.dls not MIDI instruments.Quite enough for "one man bend show". Here is short list of main features of this program

•  Recorder (ACM)
•  Karaoke.window - for lines of text with full screen mode
•  Audio player (WMP9 control) - for playind recording files and mp3 files
• Voice effects
• Midi info - traks, ticks, text etc.
• SAMI - converter to smi and htm files
• Effects - on MIDI files
• MIDI player controls - tempo, volume, add decibels, change drum set on fly, mute/solo drum channel, slider for reposition in song, bar and beat counter, current time, current bmp, total length of song in mm:ss format, play, pause and stop buttons, Open button (only mid and kar format), ClearDX button for reset everything
• About - author and program
• N'keybDrum - Play mode (button with bass pedal icon) - all sounds are from GM.dls (Microsoft downloadable sounds, basic on Roland Canvas Sound Tehnology), here drummer can activate 7 different drum sets (standard, power, electronic ..), activate pedals (mouse to play with feets)
• N'keybDrum - Learn mode (button with Snare icon) - here drummer can play only on keyboard, 46 different MIDI drum sounds, there is small metronome with sound and light-show (I used led diodes for that, they blinking in rhythm of bars and beats, let me know if someone else ever used CapsLock and ScrollLock diodes on keyboard for any other pupose like me in his software)

Download

• KaPlaReDSetup.zip (2252 Kb) or Last version of KaPlaReD program (zip file, 431 Kb)

Public Type KaPlaReDInfo
    Name As String      '= "KaPlaReD"
    Version As String   '= "1.0.11"
    Author As String    '= "Nino Rilovic"
End Type
Dim KaPlaReD As KaPlaReDInfo