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November 1, 2018November 25, 2018

The virtual guitar

Play guitar with Karaboss

Karaboss has a new module made for bassists and guitarists.
Learn your favorite guitar tracks with Karaboss: Play a song and the playing notes will appear on a virtual guitar neck where you have to put your fingers!

How?

A video is available here.

Select a song in the explorer and click on the “Guitar” button on the left navigation bar to display the virtual guitar.

How to use the virtual guitar?

Each of the guitars included in the MIDI file is displayed and plays its own score.
You will find generally a bass guitar and one or several guitars.

Bass guitars are colored differently from other guitars.

To remove one or more guitars from the display, click on the “X” button.
You can also slow down or speed up the performance of the song by clicking the “+” and “-” buttons.

What is it for?

Obviously, the display algorithm of positions often gives a very approximate result and far enough from what a normal guitarist would use.
(a normal guitarist does not have fingers twenty centimeters long).

A priori, the perfect algorithm should not be simple…
See this thesis from Elias Mistler proposing to use neural networks : Generating Guitar Tablatures with Neural Networks

or this one, from Daniel R. Tuohy:
Creating Tablature and Arranging Music or Guitar with Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks

That said, this module, very visual, allows to apprehend a piece faster.

November 27, 2017February 8, 2018

The virtual piano

A virtual piano in Karaboss

Karaboss can now teach you how to play the piano!
Even if you can not read the scores, learn to play the piano with falling notes.

How to do ?

First, select a piano piece in the explorer of Karaboss.
Two: click on the new “Piano” icon button on the left toolbar and that’s it.
When the song contains several tracks, they are displayed in different colors.
Typically: left / right hand for the piano.
You can remove unwanted tracks with the score editor

Keyboard shortcuts make your life easier:
You just have to type “space bar” to launch the player, “space bar” again to pause and when paused, “left key” to stop.

And if it’s going too fast or too slow, hit “+” or “-” keys to speed up or slow down the tempo.

Piano Training

See these videos on Youtube :

Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind

The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road (Soundtrack True Detective)

Tips:

You can build your own files with the music score editor by removing tracks and keeping only the piano track and then split the remaining track into two tracks to have left and right hands.

You can even print your music scores in traditional notation using the score editor of Karaboss (export to PDF format an than print).

November 14, 2017June 12, 2024

A guided tour

An overview of the main Karaboss functions

When the application is launched, the Karaboss explorer is displayed. It positions itself on the last location used in the previous session.

You can launch a MIDI file directly by double-clicking on it, edit it, and add it to a playlist.
This home page also provides access to Karaboss’ main functions. Guided tour :

The “HOME” button :

allows you to re-center the explorer at the root of your song library.

The search engine :

search your song library, looking for any string in the name of your files.

The explorer (this page):

navigate through your library of music files and start playing a karaoke file by double clicking on it.

The playlists manager:

manage lists of songs and organize your parties in advance.

The “ARTISTS” button:

launches a search on web services on internet and allows to find all the recordings of an artist as well as the words (essentially in the Anglo-Saxon world)