Recording, Clearing & Saving Performance

Recording a Performance
To record a performance, open a standard MIDI (.MID) or Karaoke (.KAR) file and press the red Record button. The song will begin to play and Karaoke Sing-n-Burn will record your voice through your computer's microphone. Now sing! You can monitor the volume of your voice during recording by watching the output level shown on the far left track in the Track Control Panel. Adjust the recording volume by moving this track's volume slider up or down; you don't want to your voice to record so quietly that you can't hear it ,but you don't want to introduce distortion by recording at too-high a level either. In general, try to keep the levels mostly out of the red zone.

When you are finished, press the Record button again (or the Stop button) to stop recording.

Echo Delay
The echo delay slider controls how much echo is added to your voice as you are singing (Software Mode only) and when you are playing back your performances. Move it up for a more pronounced echo with a longer delay (the time between your voice and the echo) or down for less echo. When the slider is all the way down, no echo at all will be added. Feel free to move this slider around as you play back your performances, to see what level of echo sounds best.

Adjusting the Tempo, Key, and Volume
You can adjust the tempo, key, and volume of a song for the performance, though the tempo can only be adjusted before you begin to record.

Microphones
Your computer must have some way of picking up sound in order to use the performance function. To truly channel the karaoke spirit, it helps to have a good quality microphone to sing into, though the free microphone that comes with most computers will work as well.

Clearing a Performance
After you have saved your performance, or if you decide to trash the performance and try again, press Clear to remove what was recorded, leaving the plain .MID or .KAR file open. You can now record again.

Saving a Performance
To save your performance, either click the Save button in the light gray performance control panel, or select Save or Save As from the file menu. Performances are saved as .PFC files and will only play in Karaoke Sing-n-Burn.