Can mp3 karoake songs be loaded into Pa3x?
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Can mp3 karoake songs be loaded into Pa3x?
I'm really new to this keyboard and each day I hope I'm getting better acquinted with it. Can I download Mp3 karoake songs into Pa3x via flash drive/penlight drive? If so, can someone tell how? Do I have to "open file" them or are they automatic recognized by the instrument? Would like to use them as background as a one man band when the time comes. They can be very expensive if I start buying alot of them and I can't use them as planned. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Reuben
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You can play two types of karaoke files. Midis with lyrics (may have the extension .mid or .kar) AND CDG files (sometimes called CD+G or MP3G).
In either case you don't use load, you just navigate to the file in song play mode and select it. So they will play directly from your USB or internal harddrive/USB.
The advantage of midis over CDG is that they are fully editable (including instruments, notes, lyrics, keys). With CDG's you are pretty much stuck with what you get (usually just a lyric line and no way to mute an instrument so you can play along with it). You can transpose CDG's but some don't sound very good if transposing more than a few tones.
There is a third way to have lyrics on the screen and that is to associate a text file with a midi simply by giving it exactly the same name as the midi but with of course the extension .txt. OR to associate the text file with the style or midi or CDG using the songbook Book Edit 3 function. I have found that you can't have CDG with lyrics as well as a text file in the same folder as the CDG file will be dominant.
For CDGs to work there should actually be two files with the same name in your folder, one with mp3 and the other with cdg extension. However one file will be hidden when you navigate to it to play the song. You will see it if you are in media, copy.
Its OK to rename mp3 and cdg files provided you call them exactly the same name. This is useful because sometimes the downloaded file names are ridiculously long.
In either case you don't use load, you just navigate to the file in song play mode and select it. So they will play directly from your USB or internal harddrive/USB.
The advantage of midis over CDG is that they are fully editable (including instruments, notes, lyrics, keys). With CDG's you are pretty much stuck with what you get (usually just a lyric line and no way to mute an instrument so you can play along with it). You can transpose CDG's but some don't sound very good if transposing more than a few tones.
There is a third way to have lyrics on the screen and that is to associate a text file with a midi simply by giving it exactly the same name as the midi but with of course the extension .txt. OR to associate the text file with the style or midi or CDG using the songbook Book Edit 3 function. I have found that you can't have CDG with lyrics as well as a text file in the same folder as the CDG file will be dominant.
For CDGs to work there should actually be two files with the same name in your folder, one with mp3 and the other with cdg extension. However one file will be hidden when you navigate to it to play the song. You will see it if you are in media, copy.
Its OK to rename mp3 and cdg files provided you call them exactly the same name. This is useful because sometimes the downloaded file names are ridiculously long.