Been doing karaoke as a new weekly social event at the bar, up from a total of zero social events a week. We use youtube and there’s tons of stuff I wouldn’t have expected on there, way better than choosing from a companies list. But there are some things I want to try that don’t exist.

Right now, I have an instrumental of a song and would like to make a video with the lyrics that I can sync up with the instrumental. I would be interested in learning how to remove vocals from existing tracks as well, but that seems a little bit more complicated and I don’t have time to make it THAT much of a hobby (for now.) I found an ancient program that works… emulated in windows 98… and it lags to the point of uselessness when trying to actually sync the words. When I try to run the same program in bottles I get a “specified device is not open or is not recognized by MCI” error when trying to add the audio.

My question is, does anyone know or have experience with making this kind of thing? What programs do you use? I’ve looked around a bit and it seems like there must be software for doing this, but the people who actually make karaoke videos seem to be protective of their “trade secrets” because they all want to charge a bit of money for requests over teaching others how to do it. I don’t begrudge them that, but I want to do it myself.

Any resources for learning the audio aspect of cutting out vocals would be appreciated as well!