A new version of Karaboss has been released
The version 1.0.10.3 of Karaboss is available since January 9th, 2025.
You can downloadt it from the download area of Karaboss Web Site.
For that you must authenticate .
If you do not have an account yet, don’t panic, it’s free, just create your account and that’s it.
Create an account in two steps
The registration to Karaboss is performed in two steps. All you need is a valid email address.
Step 1:
- Click on “Register”
- Fill in the three fields
- “Username”: this will be your nickname
- “Email”: must be valid. You will receive an email with registation confirmation.
- “Enter Code”: a simple code to recognize in an image in order to check that you are a human being from the earth and not a cyborg of Eckmuhl (they are a little limited)
Click on “Register” button.
Step 2:
- Open your mail and the email sent by Karaboss.
Warning, it can take several minutes to receive the mail, and it may have been classified elsewhere by your email such as “social networks”, “promotions”, or even “junk mail” 🙂 - Click on registration confirmation link whitin the email in order to display the password creation page.
- Chose a password strong enough to hold more than 30,000 years against a quantum computer.
There you go !
Notes :
- If you have forgotten your password, you can regenerate it by going to the login page: there is a link at the bottom entitled “Forgot your password?
(This is available only if you are already registered) - If the mail sent never arrives, please post a comment and I will check.
Upgrade to the latest version of Karaboss
Do not uninstall the program as this will delete your settings.
All versions of Karaboss can safely be installed over an existing installation.
What’s new?
- 1.0.10.3 – 09/01/2025
Corrections: playlists composed of XML/MXL files.
Display of chords in musicxml files (harmony tag) in the score and in the karaoke window (disengageable option). - 1.0.10.2 – 28/12/2024
Fixes: musicxml: velocity, pan, drums, file name retained for mxml / Chords: display problem in playlists. - 1.0.10.0 – 14/12/2024
Display chords with lyrics in Karaoke.
Chords can come from 2 sources:
* Placed in the lyrics. Example “[Am] The little house [G] in the meadow”.
Chord separators can be the bracket [Am] or the parenthesis (Am).
Chords placed in the lyrics take precedence over those discovered by Karaboss
* or automatically discovered by Karaboss (experimental 🙂 ). - 1.0.9.5 – 31/10/2024
Support for musicxml, xml and mxl (compressed) files, especially those with repeats and skips (just not hard to code). You can now open a Musescore musicXML or MXL file directly in MIDI from the Karaboss explorer and keep the lyrics.
Possibility of displaying and modifying the tempo(s) of a MIDI file. - 1.0.9.4 – 10/10/2024
Chord recognition (version 2): display of drawings showing guitar and piano chords.
Improved lyric recognition (lyrics without spaces, lyrics in lines) - 1.0.9.3 – 30/04/2024
New URL & more secure Web site: https://karaboss.lacharme.net - 1.0.9.2 – 24/03/2024
Recognition of chords (version 1) from a MIDI file
Chord grid, lyrics and chords can be exported. - 1.0.9.1 – 20/11/2023
Corrections :
Export MIDI file dump to text format
Explorer: file or folder creation, keeps focus on file. - 1.0.9.0 – 07/11/2023
Improved : Import/Export dump of MIDI files in text format.
Added: Import of musicxml files in MIDI format.
Playlists accept txt dumps and musicxml files.
Karaoke: Allows lyrics to be capitalized.
Rename files: reverses author and song (F7) - 1.0.8.2 – 01/05/2023
Offset notes of a track, Insert/Delete measures – Framework 4.8 - 1.0.8.1 – 25/09/2021
Lyrics display: paragraph separation (can be switched off in the options window) - 1.0.8.0 – 24/06/2021
Improved lyrics size, pianoroll more accessible via a button, redesign of pianos and play/stop buttons and interfaces of “Piano”, “Guitar” and “PianoRoll” windows, better management of bar signatures. - 1.0.7.4 – 14/02/2021
Fixed: wrong display of the text in the lyrics setting window (no linefeed). - 1.0.7.3 – 16/01/2021
Fixed: keep the selected character set in options (ascii, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean) when saving lyrics. - 1.0.7.2 – 05/07/2020
Management of some karaoke for which the words have been entered letter by letter and not syllable by syllable.
Possibility to change the notes track in the lyrics editing window, and to put the lyrics on the track of your choice.
Improved recognition of the melody track (important to be able to mute it) - 1.0.7.1 – 27/03/2020
Save MIDI output device (connection to an external keyboard for example).
The installation program allows you to change the default installation directory. - 1.0.7.0 – 12/01/2020
Ability to read ABC & MML files (experimental)
Fixed the lyrics search engine on the internet (https) - 1.0.6.7 – 01/11/2019
Possibility to load a text of words including a separator of the syllables.
For example, if the syllable separator is ‘*’, when loading the text (lyrics only), the following line <<< Ka*ra*boss is a won*der*ful soft*wa*re >> will be cut into syllables and dispatched in the cells of the lyrics editor. - 1.0.6.6 – 15/09/2019
We can now (finally) change the font for karaoke lyrics. Like “Comic Without MS” rather than the sad “Arial”. - 1.0.6.5 – 29/07/2019
Fixes - 1.0.6.4 – 15/03/2019
LRC file format is supported. Lyrics color contour optional. Fixes - 1.0.6.3 – 19/01/2019
Fixes: I tried to fix unwanted refreshes of the explorer. - 1.0.6.2 – 08/12/2018
A lot of fixes, and some design on the player, and well… definitely not my job. - 1.0.6.1 – 08/11/2018
Fixes & improvements on the new module “virtual guitar”, following tests on a large number of MIDI files. - 1.0.6.0 – 01/11/2018
For guitarists and bassists: addition of a new module that displays in real time the notes to play on a neck of guitar or bass.
(the algorithm remains very perfectible but it’s a start!) - 1.0.5.14 – 03/10/2018
Added: modification of the velocity of a note or a selection of notes.
Fixes: the player was not always stopped at the end of the playback, recovery of corrupted MIDI files. - 1.0.5.136 – 16/09/2108
Simple improvement following a request made in the forum: the value used to transpose the notes is now configurable by 1/2 tones. Configurable in the Parameters window: from the explorer, select the menu “Tools”> “Options” > “MIDI Editor”. - 1.0.5.12 – 13/07/2018
Fixes: in case of error, a “ghost” instance of Karaboss remains active even when you leave Karaboss, and prevents to restart Karaboss (No sound card, sound banks large and long to load, synthesizer inaccessible) - 1.0.5.11 – 06/05/2018
Following the purchase of an external sound card, I rewritted the management of input sources (Input Device) in order to select the one that interests us. We can choose for example either the electric keyboard or the sound card. - 1.0.5.10 – 01/04/2018
Mainly some fixes in the score editor. - 1.0.5.9 – 17/02/2018
The lyrics search module now uses lyrics.wikia.com more abundant for French-speaking artists (The module is also renamed “Artists” rather than “Connected”)
Numerous corrections (linking the songs of a playlist: the song is first loaded before being paused. - 1.0.5.8 – 03/02/2018
Recording from an external MIDI keyboard.
Many fixes: manual entry of notes, chaining songs of a playlist etc … - 1.0.5.7 – 13/01/2018
Ajust Tempo and tone (transposition) from the player windows.
Fixes. - 1.0.5.6 – 22/12/2017
Improvement of the lyrics display: removal of the last line sung after 2 beats and switch to the next line. - 1.0.5.5 – 07/12/2017
All the possible combinations between the photos of a slide show: pause, countdown or direct sequence.
Import / export of entire sequences in MIDI CSV format
Importing a track from another MIDI sequence or from a CSV MIDI file. - 1.0.5.4 – 24/11/2017
Improved readability of lyrics display when using a slideshow. - 1.0.5.3 – 11/11/2107
Fixes - 1.0.5.2 – 29/10/2017
Adding a new function: Even if you can not read the scores, learn to play the piano with falling notes! a virtual piano like Synthesia.