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Load a karaoke file (.kar, MIDI with text or lyrics or markers) and play the song with internal player.
The bottom half of the MIDI document window displays the karaoke song text. During playing the position of the current song text is moved into visible area and the current syllable/word/chord is colored.

Hint:
you can resize the karaoke display by moving the splitter directly above. Use the tool buttons INFO, INFO/KAR, KAR to switch between displaying information view and karaoke view or both splitted.  

 Hint:
you can maximize the karaoke display area by clicking left mouse button taste when you are over the black area on the splitter (cursor will change when your mouse is over this part). The splitter will be moved to top and clicking again in this area will set the original size of the upper window area.  

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You can change the karaoke text font in menu Window and view syllable breaks (-) in menu Settings.  

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Chords of some known chord formats are displayed a line above song text.  

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If chords should never be displayed above lyrics, they can be turned off in text file GNMIDI.ini with following setting:  
   [Settings]  
   SupportChordDisplay=0  

Hint:
Use themes dialog in menu window to choose a combination of karaoke font, karaoke ball type, text and background colors and background image. You can copy an existing standard theme and define your own theme.  
 
Hint:
Some chord formats use special characters to identify chords e.g. [Cm] {Cm} (Cm) %Cm "Cm". During karaoke lyrics display this special characters are not displayed (only Cm will be displayed).  
use following setting to display the original chord text:  
   [Settings]  
   DisplayOriginalChordFormat=1  
Hint:
in menu Settings there is an option to turn on/off display of a bouncing ball (during karaoke display the ball is bouncing from syllable to syllable)  
Warning: This option requires much computer power. Do not use this option during live performance.  

 Hint: In menu settings filling longer MIDI lyrics pauses by beat counting can be turned on/off.
Use following setting to change the displayed text (default is * ) for each counted beat:  
[Settings]  
KaraokeFillLongerPausesText=*  

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The score lines with melody note positions can be turned on/off in menu settings.  
If scorelines are displayed melody note names can be displayed optionally with a setting.  
Choose one or more melody channels using edit description dialog (right mouse click into karaoke view) that the correct notes are displayed. Use value 0 for no melody channel.  
Score lines are only available for MIDI songs that contain notes on the chosen melody channel.  
Very deep and very high notes are automatically moved by octaves near to scorelines.  
Raised semitones (#) will be colored different at top. Reduced semitones (b) will be colored different at bottom.  
The colors of the note positions can be changed in GNMIDI .ini settings:  
[Settings]  
KaraokeScorenoteColorFlatNormal=FFF000  
KaraokeScorenoteColorFlatActive=FFFF00  
KaraokeScorenoteColorNormal=4486BB  
KaraokeScorenoteColorActive=F2800D  
By default the size of score lines are related with the toolbar size setting in menu. With ini setting the line thickness in pixel can be set directly (1-5).  
[Settings]  
KaraokeScorelineThickness=1