Karedi is a new, improved graphical editor designed for creating songs for Ultrastar - one of the most popular karaoke games for PC. Its main objective is to simplify the process of creation for both beginners and advanced users while assuring high-quality of the final txt files.
Karedi's main features include:
- support for multiple operating systems with no additional dependencies
- full documentation and tutorials for beginners available in the project's website
- two display modes:
- line by line - visible area's bounds are adjusted automatically
- continuous - they are set manually by you
- multiple playback modes
- support for songs with multiple tracks
- intuitive new song wizard
- tag features (e.g. rescaling to new BPM, setting medley from selection) & validation
- copy & paste (in 2 modes: traditional and merge)
- auto-syllabification of lyrics in most popular languages
- automatic search for problems (errors & warnings)
- solver that offers both safe and potentially risky (useful if safe fix is not available) solutions to almost all the problems
- support for multiple audio files of various formats with adjustable volume
- auxiliary note method support:
- notes are sorted according to their startbeats
- shortcuts for playing fragments before (alt + UP) or after (alt + DOWN) the selected note
- extra modules:
- Tap Notes - add notes by pressing a key while listening to playback
- Write Tones - set tones of selected notes by pressing an appropriate key, e.g. "E".
Please refer to the wiki to learn more.
For tutorials explaining how to use this software, please refer to the project's wiki.
You can found the newest version in the Releases section.
Karedi uses the following libraries:
- JavaFX with ControlsFX & RichTextFx for GUI,
- jFugue to simplify the process of creating MIDI sequences,
- hyphenator for syllabification,
- javasound-aac for m4a files support,
- mp3spi for mp3 files support,
- java-vorbis-support for Ogg Vorbis support.
The project is licensed under GNU General Public License.