What are the best Karaoke download or karaoke files and other great places for singers or budding composers who want to learn about MIDI sequencing.
How to get MIDI or karaoke files?
Good question…
A long time ago there was a lot of it on the net.
This time is over: We must now look long before finding his happiness and we often draw a blank.
The problem is that uploading a MIDI file for free comes up against legal considerations, with respect to the rights holders of the original work, and directly competes with the activity of many professionals …
– This is a copy of an original artwork even if the quality of the sound is certainly not at the level of the original one (To say nothing of the absence of the singer)
– This is the equivalent of a score in direct competition with that of the score editors.
– Sometimes these files are created and put on sale by professional musicians, so it is forbidden to put them online.
– Same for MIDI files that you have created yourself, except your own compositions.
In France, for example, the Code of Intellectual Property states that “any representation or reproduction in whole or in part without the consent of the author or the rightful assignees is unlawful, even for translations, adaptations, transformations or even arrangements that may arise from the artwork. ”
It is not the purpose of this page to make a judgment on the orientation of the internet, but it is clear that the “blessed” era of free internet is over and the merchandization of the MIDI file is a fact.
The purpose of this page is to list the different possibilities and give some links that point to files still free of charge.
Google search:
It is usually enough to launch Google by doing a search on “Midi Files” or “Karaoke Files” to get good results.
We then come across sites that offer self-service files, others that require the creation of an account, and finally there are sites that offer, for a small fee, files created by professionals and therefore good quality (you can even order a file if it has never been put in MIDI format)
List of links to sites that offer Karaoke files for free download:
Registration required
Others
- http://www.acroche2.com/kar_a1.html
- http://www.blueman.name/Variete_francaise.php
- http://www.midiworld.com/files/
- Gary’s MIDI Paradise
- https://freemidi.org/
- https://www.midistart.com/
- http://en.midimelody.ru/
- http://www.karaokeden.com/karaoke
- http://www.midi-karaoke.info/
- http://www.rppmf.com/index.htm
- http://www.tricotism.com/
- http://midimi.org/
The lifetime of sites that offer free MIDI files for download is often short … There is no guarantee that these links will exist in a few months. Thank you for pointing out those who died.
Some interesting sites to consult for singing, to equip yourself:
- https://composer-sa-musique.fr/
- https://composer-sa-musique.fr/comment-choisir-sa-carte-son-externe/
- http://www.vocalist.org.uk/exercises.html
The Sound Banks (Soundfonts)
- Timbres of Heaven (Don Allen) available on the site midkar
- achno Soundfont (Maxime Abbey)
Technical stuff: structure of a typical karaoke (.kar) file
We find everything in nature: files whose lyrics have syllables in “text” format, others in “lyric” format, sometimes they are not syllables, but whole lines, or conversely letters entered one by one!
No standard obviously, and thus charges to the MIDI reader to adapt itself progressively to the discoveries of exotic files ….
But here is what we would like to expect 🙂
Others sites:
Backing tracks
That’s it, and if you have, you too, some good addresses, feel free to share them.