Song and file resources for MIDI karaoke: legal free .KAR sources, Italian basi MIDI, making your own files, and library organization.
Karaoke files come in a small alphabet of extensions — .kar, .mid, .midi, .rmi, and beyond them MP3+G and CDG — and singers routinely download the wrong one for the player they own. This explainer sorts out what each format actually is, how they relate, and which ones vanBasco’s Karaoke Player (v2.53, March 2004, Windows…
A karaoke library is years of small finds: the one perfect arrangement, the file with lyrics that are actually right, the set list that took an evening to tune. Lose the folder and you lose all of it — and .kar collections are exactly the kind of data people forget to back up until a…
Every .kar file in your library was made by someone. A sequencer programmed the music, typed the lyrics and timed every syllable — and with a MIDI file, a text editor’s worth of patience and a karaoke authoring tool, that someone can be you. Making your own .kar file is the only fully legal way…
If you have ever searched for Italian karaoke files, you have met the word basi. In Italy, a base (plural basi) is a backing track — the music without the lead vocal — and basi midi are backing tracks in MIDI form: the .mid and .kar files that players like vanBasco’s Karaoke Player were built…
vanBasco’s Karaoke Player ships with no songs at all. The freeware Windows player — final release v2.53, from March 2004 — plays the .kar, .mid, .midi and .rmi files you bring to it, which makes one question unavoidable: where can you find MIDI karaoke files legally, without downloading mystery bundles of unknown origin? This guide…
