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MIDI and ABC
On the Internet, you can buy or download Midifiles or ABC files already including lyrics.

Extension for these files is .KAR, .MID. or .ABC.

For obvious reasons of copyright, we can not distribute such files on our Website without agreement from their authors. So please do not ask us for such files...

Anyway, some of these files do not follow the guidelines described in the next page. Some syllables can be not linked to a note, punctuation may be omitted....

You will then have to use Harmony/Melody to amend these lyrics. Above this, in a Midifile, no information is provided about the link between the lyrics themselves and the melody staff. You will have to perform this choice in the dialog box which opens once a Midifile is imported. It this box opens several times in a row, it means several lyrics have been found in the Midifile.

 
    Warning ! Some authors of Midi Karaoke files use lyrics staves to include Copyright texts or lists of chord names ! 
 
In the most extreme cases, a Midifile can even include lyrics text without the matching melody. In this situation, there is no simple way to make this file work properly.

In order to guide you, Melody/Harmony marks the most probable melody staves with a *. The beginning of lyrics text is displayed to help you decide whether you want to keep it or not.

Generally, a simple click on "OK" in this window will be enough.

Of course, no information about the voice to be used is included in a Midifile. The program adapts the standard voice to the pitch range of the selected staff.

Please also note melody staves are frequently shifted by several octaves. Virtual Singer enables you to apply an octave shifting to the voice in order to adjust the pitch range.

Once these settings have been made, do not forget to save your pieces in standard Melody/Harmony file format.

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