We are extremely happy to announce another technical advancement of Siglos Karaoke Professional. If you go to Settings / KJ you will find Detect and speed up instrumentals section.
It works for CD+G files only (ZIP format as well). Siglos will scan the file and look for moments that display does not change. In almost all cases these moments are instrumentals like guitar solos. If you would like to skip them, Siglos gives you two options: 1. Fade and skip will gently mute and skip the instrumental 2. Speed-up will fast forward the instrumental part (the quality of the speed up depends on the music)
Using this option can save you time on busy nights when patrons sing Master of Puppets after Highway Star.
You may also fine-tune individual songs in the database to enable instrumental detection only for some of them — you can do this in Edit Song window opened from Song Details or from database window.
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Starting from version 2.5.1 both Karaoke Video Creator and Karaoke CD+G Creator have the ability to define text snippets that can be inserted using predefined shortcut key.
Text snippet is a part of a song (lyrics and events) that can be reused. You may define as many text snippets as you like, you can also move them between computers.
To define a text snippet:
Select the text you would like to save as a snippet
Choose Text snippets from Edit window or right-click the selected text, choose Insert text snippet from a drop-down menu and then choose Edit snippets from a submenu
Text Snippets window will open. You will see the text you have selected in the Preview field. Your snippet will be auto-named (you may change the name of the snippet by typing the new name in the name field and then clicking Rename button)
You may switch between snippets by selecting them from the drop-down list. You may also remove currently selected snipped using Remove button
If you would like to insert a snippet using keyboard, you may define the hotkey for it. To do this use Assign hot key button. You may use combination of alphanumeric keys with SHIFT, ALT and CTRL.
Selecting Close will save your snippet collection. Cancel will abandon the changes.
To insert a text snippet:
Position the cursor in the place you would like to insert the snippet and select Text snippets from Edit menu, choose the snippet to insert and click Insert
or
Right-click with your mouse and choose the snippet from Insert text snippet submenu
or
Use the hotkey defined for the snippet
To copy snippets to another computer:
Choose Export from Tools menu in Text snippets window. You will be able to choose a location of the file. All snippets will be saved. Move this file to a destination computer and choose Import there. You will be presented an option of replacing the snippets or appending them (with renaming if necessary).
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In Siglos 2.0.67 we have added a feature that can make your life a little easier. Settings window now has ‘Apply’ button and ‘Tools’ menu that allows to save settings to the file and load them back.
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In version 2.0.48 of Siglos Karaoke Player/Recorder and Siglos Karaoke Professional we have added a 10-band high-quality graphic equalizer. It comes with several factory-made presets and allows you to create and save your own. Plus it looks great!
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Siglos Karaoke Professional 2.0.47 has a nice feature added. Part of the scrolling message is now used to display the timer that counts down time left for the next singer. Its color changes too, so when it is red, it is high time to get there and sing!
To control the behavior of the countdown go to Settings / KJ and choose Countdown button.
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Today we have released the new version of Karaoke Video Creator. It has the CD+G import module that allows to convert CD+G songs into HD videos. We have also improved the quality and feel of the videos, it is now very easy to create videos in high definition, like the one below. Other changes include:
+ Added CD+G Import
+ Added gradient effect
+ Added separate color for shadow
+ Added ‘Apply’ to Video Settings window
* Video Settings window remembers last selected tab
+ Added common resolutions
+ Added panning video backgrounds
+ Added default settings controls to Video File Setting / Presets
* Video files can now be used as soundtracks
+ Added ‘Load from current song’ to style editor
I have good news. We have released Siglos 2.0.13 with two very important additions:
1. YouTube playback and download.
Now you may use online songs from YouTube directly in Siglos. You may even download videos and play them later. This gives you thousands of karaoke songs you can sing to!
2. Panning background.
We have added a new background mode — wide background images are now moved from left to right and back, resulting in cool visual effect. We included several such images with the program — they are in ‘wide’ subfolder of ‘images’ folder.
Here is the download link to the latest version of Player/Recorder:
Today we have published Karaoke CD+G Creator 2.4.1, which has an amazing new feature – CD+G file import. It is an intelligent tool that allows to load existing CD+G songs into Karaoke CD + G Creator, so you may edit and re-create them without having to synchronize the song.
You may download it from our website. Here is the link for the regular version:
Last week we have released Karaoke Sound Tools 2. It has two great new tools — Merge to combine several CD+G songs into one, and Clip to remove parts at the beginning and at the end of the song (it can be used to remove dead air in songs).
Users that purchased Karaoke Sound Tools within a year can upgrade for free, other Karaoke Sound Tools users can upgrade at $19. If you own any other software from us you get $10 discount on regular $49 price.
+ In playlist window DEL key removes a song and ENTER key starts the playback
* Playback starts automatically when loading song on startup
+ Added Minimize button to the default skin
* PRO: Added keyboard shortcuts to rotation lists
+ PRO: Added Eject button to playlist window
+ PRO: It is possible to drag and drop items on the rotation song list
+ PRO: Added disc ID to history export
