First, I understand both sides of what is being said.

I know when I...I'm not sure you can call it...sing karaoke, I typically listen for really specific parts in the song. Sometimes it's not the major hooks. It's some little background part that is in the original. If it's not there, or simply different in the karaoke version, it throws me. And THAT is the reason I probably don't sound that great at karaoke!...I just figured that out now wink Kidding of course.

Now, in Pat's defense, if you get up on stage to perform with a band, the song typically won't sound that close to the original either! There are many parts that may be missing. You can get the general sound of the song, and add in some of the hooks and people know the song and could sing just fine to it.

Along these same lines, some of the songs mentioned would not just be hard/impossible in just BIAB. They are simply more difficult songs for most bands to do! Some bands would NEVER be able to do bohemian rhapsody! Of course there are some who can, but they had to work at it...not just that song, but learning everything before even taking on a song like that. And they typically aren't doing an open mic type thing at that point wink

I think Pat's point is valid in that the original question was asking for some solutions. Pats does work. Maybe not for every single song out there, but I don't think that was the question that was asked...and I don't think anyone has given an answer for every song out there either! Lighten up on the guy. Rather than point out all the places it wouldn't work, or would be hard, why not look for all the times it WOULD work?! Is that not what the original post was about?

As far as having an axe to grind about people's expectations...that sounds like a new thread. Or rather than jump all over a suggestion, you could simple say "yes that would work in some cases, but it's almost impossible for the program pull off some harder songs. For those you may want to..."

Now to help the original poster...

I very much agree that karaoke-version.com has some great tracks! In the passed they seemed better, but are still pretty great. The ability to do custom mixes is impressive!

A great midi source I like is midi-hits.com. The quality of the playing is pretty great typically. I have heard people buy great performances and run them from a crap midi source and they sounded terrible. That, of course, is not the fault of midi-hits. Always remember that!

I hope this helps! It's a great question.



Last edited by HearToLearn; 08/22/15 02:44 AM.
Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

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