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Karaboss is now able to display the chords contained in a MIDI file.
Chords can be displayed dynamically, i.e. at the same time as the lyrics (for singing along with an instrument, for example), or at a standstill for more detailed study of a song and its accompaniment.

The chords of a song can be obtained in two different ways:

They can be written manually in the song lyrics.
For example: the text “[Am] Little house [G] on the prairie” indicates that you should play the chord “A minor” and then “G”.
Karaboss will extract the chords from the text and display them above the lyrics.
Adding the chords to the lyrics represents a considerable amount of work, but in return, the chords displayed will be exactly those you have chosen.
Or they can be automatically discovered by Karaboss, which is still a little experimental 🙂 and therefore less accurate than the first method. But in return, it’s much less tiring.
Note that chords placed voluntarily in the lyrics take precedence over those discovered by Karaboss.

The chords are written in international format (C, D, E, F, G, A, B)

I. Displaying chords in the karaoke window

Simply press the “Chords” checkbox in the right-hand panel of the karaoke window, and the chords are immediately displayed above the song text (whether already present in the lyrics or discovered by Karaboss).

Press the checkbox again to return to normal mode: karaoke without chords.
In the case of a file containing the chords written in the lyrics, this is rather indigestible, as can be seen below:

II. The “Chords” module

Click on the “Chords” button in the explorer to access the “Chords” module.

This module has three tabs

• A first tab displays the song’s chords in the form of a grid
• A second tab displaying the chord map
• third tab that displays the song text with its chords.

1. The chord and lyric line

The first tab displays on a line each beat of a bar, with the chord to be played and the syllables belonging to that beat. When the song is started, this enables the musician to play the right chord at the right moment, and possibly sing along with the song.

To make synchronization easier, the song scrolls on the screen, with the square corresponding to the beat and bar played highlighted.

The button bar can be used to enlarge or reduce the size of the squares.

2. The chords map

The second tab displays the chords map contained in the MIDI file.
When the song is started, the box corresponding to the beat is highlighted.

The button bar lets you

• enlarge or reduce the size of the cells.
• exports the chords map in PDF format

3. The score

The third tab displays the score of the song, qith lyrics and chords above the text.

The button bar lets you export the score to

• PDF format
• Text format