vanBasco's Karaoke Player

Turn your PC into a karaoke machine with vanBasco Karaoke Player, the legendary free software for singing your favorite songs! Specially designed for fans of the MIDI and Karaoke (KAR) formats, this player is the perfect tool for hosting parties, practicing your singing skills, or just having fun at home.

Thanks to its simple interface and low resource consumption, vanBasco is the ideal choice for any computer. Enjoy a hassle-free and fully customizable karaoke experience.

Key Features:

• 🎤 Full Karaoke Compatibility: Perfectly plays all your karaoke files in MIDI (.mid, .midi) and KAR (.kar) formats.
• 🎹 Full-Screen Lyrics: Follow the song lyrics effortlessly with an optimized view that you can expand to full screen, perfect for getting everyone involved.
• 🎛️ Complete Control Over Your Music: Adjust every song to your style. Modify the tempo (speed), key (pitch), and volume in real-time to perfectly match your voice.
• 🎶 Track Customization: Want to sing without the guide melody? Mute or solo specific instruments in the MIDI track to create your own instrumental or acapella version.
• 💻 Lightweight and 100% Free: Powerful software that won't slow down your computer and is completely free to download and use.

🎨 Customize Your Experience

Give your player a unique touch with customizable skins. Change the look and feel of the interface to match your style. Simply download a skin and select it from the settings menu to refresh your karaoke setup.

🔊 Want to Enhance Your MIDI Sound Quality?

Standard Windows MIDI sounds can be basic. To take your audio experience to the next level and enjoy more realistic instruments, we recommend using Winlive Synth Driver . You'll notice the difference instantly!

Note: To unzip skin files or other add-ons, you may need a tool like WinZip .

Download vanBasco Karaoke Player today and let the show begin!

Version history

v2.53 (released on March 12th, 2004). Changes since previous release:

• User-interface now supports English, German (deutsch), Italian (italiano) and Spanish (español). More language packs are available.
• Much bigger choice of character set to be used for lyrics, including Baltic, Chinese, Eastern Europe, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese
• Folder names in playlist window in non-English languages are now displayed correctly
• In the playlist window, song files can be dragged and dropped into the desired position of the playlist
• Karaoke Window sometimes disappeared for no reason - no longer
• Improved support for multiple monitors
• Help file now in HTML format
• Docking of player windows
• Support for multimedia keyboards
• A number of small bugs fixes

v2.52 - Changes since the previous version:

• Improved compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
• Supports now displaying JPEG files as background image in Karaoke window
• Special characters such as á, ê, ö, ù, ç etc. are now allowed in playlist names