Your whole night, one control room.
Vocalis plays your .mid and .kar files, puts full-screen lyrics on a monitor or TV, and lets singers book their turn from their phones. Free on macOS, Windows and Linux.
MIDI and KAR karaoke files are tiny, transpose with no quality loss and already contain synchronized lyrics. Vocalis plays them through a built-in synthesizer and follows the layout of classic players like vanBasco: small windows side by side, LCD displays, faders and a 16-channel mixer. The look is modern, and it is built for people who run live karaoke nights.
The MIDI and KAR karaoke player built for live nights.
Words light up as they are sung. Singers always know where they are, even on a song they barely know.
The Karaoke window goes full screen on the monitor you choose. You stay at the computer, the room watches the TV.
Song, key, tempo, volume, setlist, mixer, SoundFonts and network all live in one window. Change the key for a singer without stopping the night.
Put a QR code up in the room and anyone who wants to sing joins the queue from their own phone. Lyrics can be followed from any browser on the local network.
The GeneralUser GS SoundFont is included, so Vocalis plays out of the box. It reads the Roland GS and Yamaha XG settings in your files, like reverb, chorus and drum kits, and plays them the way their authors intended.
Add the folders with your files and search becomes instant. Favorites, recent songs and a play counter show you what works at your nights.
Vocalis, Aurora, Palco, Acciaio, Smeraldo and Corallo restyle every window instantly. Export a theme as a template and make your own.
Pick the file for your system. Every download comes straight from the official releases on GitHub.
Open the DMG and drag Vocalis to Applications.
Run the standard installer or the MSI package.
Install the .deb (Debian/Ubuntu) or .rpm (Fedora/openSUSE), or make the AppImage executable and run it.
macOS 10.15 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows 10/11 64-bit, Linux x86_64.
Free. The source code is not public. Includes the GeneralUser GS SoundFont by S. Christian Collins (GeneralUser GS License v2.0). Vocalis does not distribute backing tracks: it plays your own files.
Yes, Vocalis is free. Its source code is not public. If you find it useful, you can support its development with a donation.
Vocalis is inspired by the user experience of vanBasco's Karaoke Player, with side-by-side windows, LCD displays, faders and a 16-channel mixer, but it has original artwork and runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Not yet. The app interface is in Italian, as shown in the screenshots.
MIDI (.mid, .midi, .rmi) and KAR (.kar) files. Open them by double-click, by dropping them on the Player, or from the Library.
No. Vocalis includes a complete General MIDI SoundFont and plays right away. If you like, you can download and activate one of the 8 banks in the catalog from the control room.
The installers are not yet signed with an Apple or Microsoft certificate. On macOS, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. On Windows, if SmartScreen appears, click More info → Run anyway.
No. Vocalis does not distribute any backing tracks: it plays the files you already have.
Vocalis is free and developed in spare time. If it powers your karaoke nights, a donation helps bring new features, signed installers and more platforms.
