USB Mic in XBMC

[Neo369]

Hey does anybody know if you can use a USB mic with XBOX adapter in XBMC for karaoke? I tried using a Rock Band mic, but it wasn't recognized at all. I know that it is possible to buy a Karaoke Revolution Mic, but I'm looking for a cheaper solution as those go for around $40.

Also, does anyone know if the karaoke functions in XBMC work only with CD+G files, or can the mic be enabled with any audio source?

Thanks.

[cba.gy]

I have the official adapters so can't comment on USB stuff but im gonna guess and say it probably would require drivers anyway.

[The-Ice-Man]

My mum bought me Xbox Music Mixer one Christmas, which came with microphones. It sucked ass very much.

[cba.gy]

Did it suck or was it your singing ? lol.

Yeah Music Mixer was a piss poor XBMC at the time.

[fumanchu]

Hey does anybody know if you can use a USB mic with XBOX adapter in XBMC for karaoke? I tried using a Rock Band mic, but it wasn't recognized at all. I know that it is possible to buy a Karaoke Revolution Mic, but I'm looking for a cheaper solution as those go for around $40.

Also, does anyone know if the karaoke functions in XBMC work only with CD+G files, or can the mic be enabled with any audio source?

Thanks.

there is an xbox karaoke player Xkaraplay which was devolped by emesli the guy who does the sega model2 emulator for pc and who also did the cpx3 emulator for xbox1.

info from the readme.

Here is a download for Xkaraplay a karaoke player for xbox.

it was developed by emseli the guy who did the cpx3 emulator for xbox and the model2 emulator for pc which emulates games like daytona usa.....so you know its going to be good.

here is a copy and paste from the read me.

 

xKaraPlay is a Midi-Karaoke player for XBOX.

It's in very early beta stage so you can expect some problems (lyrics not showing,wrong music, hangs,...)

 

Midi-Karaoke files (usually .kar extension) are standard MIDI files (.mid) with

embedded and syncronized lyrics.

In order to generate the actual music from the midi stored score, the player will use SoundFont 2 banks (.sf2).

Soundfont banks contain the instrument sounds and description required to play the score

contained in the midi files.

I've included a SoundFont bank made by merging Creative's 8MBGMGS.sf2 drums and SynerGi-8M.sf2 instruments.

If you want to use a different soundfont file, just name it bank.sf2 and place it in the same directory than

default.xbe.

 

CONFIGURATION

Before starting using the program you should configure the directories where you have your .kar files stored.

By default the program will always read all .kar files in the same dir than default.xbe.

To add more files/directories just open karaplay.ini and add Dirx=directory (where 'x' is a sequential number and 'directory'

is the directory name where you stored the files.) remember than the program will always run as if the directory where

default.xbe is stored is d:\ .

The player also supports .kar files inside .zip files, to add a zip file, just add it to the .ini file as if it

were a directory (for example: Dir3=Karaokes.zip)

 

The player also supports a simple piano keyboard visualization that you can enable/disable with the ini option Vis.

Setting Vis=1 will enable the piano visualization, Vis=0 will disable it.

 

USAGE

Once you have placed the zip contents in a directory on your xbox hard drive, have copied there all .kar/.zip files and

configured the directories properly, you can start the player.

When it starts you'll see a blade with a list of all songs you have configured (alphabetically sorted).

Use the D-Pad UP and DOWN to move a song at a time, use LEFT TRIGGER to scroll up fast and RIGHT TRIGGER to scroll down

fast. Pressing LEFT TRIGGER+DPAD UP will scroll faster, and the same for RIGHT TRIGGER+DPAD DOWN. Once you have found the

song you want to play, press the A button, the blade will close and the song will start playing and the lyrics running

in the bottom area.

 

While a song is playing, you can use DPAD UP/DOWN to increase/Decrease the tone of the song and LEFT/RIGHT to decrease/increase

the tempo (it's a bit buggy yet and it can crash the player easily).

Pressing B button will stop the song (no pause yet, sorry). Pressing START button will show the song list again to choose

another one (the current song will keep playing and the lyrics running till you select another song or stop the current one).

 

Pressing START+BACK+LEFT TRIGGER+RIGHT TRIGGER will return you to the xbox dashboard.

 

TODO

Fix some bugs regarding missing notes.

It doesn't recognize all ways of storing lyrics inside midi files.

Voice analysis and melody matching (like SingStars. I'm not sure if I can record the voice in xbox).