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Sonken Karaoke Machines Guide
Sonken MP600 and the Sonken MP4000
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How to Download an MP3+G Karaoke File ............................... 2
MP600 Karaoke Player User Guide ....................................... 6-18
MP4000 Karaoke Machine User Guide ............................... 19-34
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  • Page 1 Sonken Karaoke Machines Guide Sonken MP600 and the Sonken MP4000 Table of Contents How to Download an MP3+G Karaoke File ....... 2 MP600 Karaoke Player User Guide ........6-18 MP4000 Karaoke Machine User Guide ....... 19-34 © Copyright 2018 Karaoke Home Entertainment www.khe.com.au www.khe.co.nz...

  • Page 2: How To Download Mp3+G Files

    Single Song or Digital Albums for MP3+G (for compatible MP3+G devices like the karaoke boom box, MP600, MP2000, Miic Star MS62, Magic Sing ET23KH and PCDJ Karaoki Hosting Software) Step 2 Click “Sign-In or Register to add songs”...
  • Page 3 Step 5 You’ll come to this screen below where you can see all the pricing tabled out for you, for how many songs, how much per song, and how much for the total voucher. You pay the Price at the very end, for the entire selection of songs now. You can choose and download your songs over 12 months from the day you download your first song.
  • Page 4 Step 10 Once you’ve completed the order, you will see under Order History, all your songs and a “DOWNLOAD” button beside them. Click this button and you will see a bar / pop up, select Save As and choose your file location on your computer where you want the songs to download to.
  • Page 5 Step 12 Choose the destination to be your root folder, in this case Downloads is where I’ve put the song, I want the two files to extract into the main folder. Click Extract. Step 13 You will now see the below, two files for the 1 song, and the zipped file, you can delete the zipped file. Keep the two files.

  • Page 6: Table Of Contents

    How to Connect Your MP600............................7 Getting Started with your MP600 ............................. 8 Multiplex (MPX) – Full Guide Vocals On/Off On an MP600 .................... 8 Creating a Songbook on an MP600 ........................... 9 How to Format a USB on a PC ............................10 Recording Assistance on an MP600 ..........................

  • Page 7: How To Connect Your Mp600

    Download & Install Song Book Generator For MP600’s Purchased Before July 2017 ..........12 Formatting the CSV Excel Song List For an MP600 ......................13 MP600 FAQ Page................................19 Sonken MP4000 Karaoke Machine Guide........................20-34 How to Connect Your MP600 Your Sonken MP600 Karaoke Player has the power cable connected to the unit, that just needs to plug into a wall power socket.

  • Page 8: Getting Started With Your Mp600

    Getting Started with your MP600 Your MP600 Karaoke Player plays either CD+G discs, DVD* discs or MP3+G karaoke digital files. You can press the Open/Close button to open the disc draw, put in a CD+G disc and the first track of the disc will begin to play.

  • Page 9: Creating A Songbook On An Mp600

    Creating a Songbook on an MP600 The Sonken MP600 (models purchased after July 2017) have an in-built song book generator function which allows you to create a printable book with all your songs for super easy song selection. In order to create the song book, you must have all your songs in MP3+G format (2 files per song .cdg and .mp3) on no more than an 8GB USB stick, with no other documents [Word Files, Photos etc] present on the USB.

  • Page 10: How To Format A Usb On A Pc

    If you would like instructions on how to format the songbook in an excel document to change the columns around, and format the list by artist or by song title and clean up the list a bit further for a nice printing song book, see page 8 for “How to Format a Song Book”.

  • Page 11: Recording Assistance On An Mp600

    Recording Assistance on an MP600 Step 1 Make sure the machine is connected (see Page 2), plug in your microphones and insert your disc/USB/SD Card. If you are singing off a disc, you will need to insert a USB as well, to record your performance to. If you are singing a song from your USB stick, it will record back to itself, creating a new folder “Record”.

  • Page 12: Understanding The Usb Platform On An Mp600

    Understanding the USB Platform on an MP600 When you insert a USB stick (up to 8GB) your MP600 will recognise and start switching to USB mode where it will show you two columns, like below. At the top you will see the currently title and artist that you have highlighted, if you’re having trouble reading the song titles in this view, click “FILE MP3+G SONG LIST”...

  • Page 13: Formatting The Csv Excel Song List For An Mp600

    USB stick, and the upgrade is complete. Formatting the CSV Excel Song List For an MP600 In order to generate the song list, you must follow the instructions on Page 4 of this document. Once the .csv Excel document is on your USB and inserted to your PC, you can open it and see how your files have transferred to song list.
  • Page 14 Step 4 Next, in Excel, highlight the column you wish to split, whichever column your title and artist has shown up in by clicking on the A, B or C etc at the top. Then select DATA, and Text to Column Step 5 Choose “Delimited”...
  • Page 15 Step 7 Easy to modify to your liking list: Now depending on how you have your original files formatted there may still some that aren’t 100% like song 36 on my list, because I had it formatted M.I.L.F$ so this one I will manually fix but the majority are fine and will be very easy to swap around if need be.
  • Page 16 Simply highlight the whole section of text you want to encase in black borders. Click the border settings as shown above, and select “all borders” You can print it like this! Easy! © Copyright 2018 Karaoke Home Entertainment www.khe.com.au www.khe.co.nz www.picknmix.com.au...
  • Page 17 b) You can print one like this, Title – Arist and then make a second Artist – Title for those who know the Artist not the song name. Firstly just highlight the B column where you have the song names, and select Cut (CTRL+X) Then PASTE this data into column D, you can then delete the empty column B.
  • Page 18 Delete once empty Now they’re the other way around. Highlight from the B1 column all the way down to your last song in column C, so both columns (not the track numbers) should be highlighted. Right click, and choose Sort A-Z Now all the artist will be sorted from A-Z and the songs next to them…like so ©...

  • Page 19: Mp600 Faq Page

    A: Yes, the MP600 does record from either CD+G or MP3+G to a USB stick. See Page 5 and 6 for detailed information. Q: Does it have key control? A: Yes, the MP600 has key control on the remote control you have a 6-Step Key Control to step the song up or down to better suit your vocal range.

  • Page 20: Sonken Mp4000 Karaoke Machine Guide

    Sonken MP4000 Machine Guide Contents How to Download MP3+G Files ............................2 MP600 Karaoke Player Guide ............................6-18 MP4000 Karaoke Machine Guide ........................... 19 How to Connect Your MP4000............................21 Getting Started with your MP4000 ..........................22 Multiplex (MPX) – Full Guide Vocals On/Off ........................22 Bluetooth on your MP4000.............................

  • Page 21: How To Connect Your Mp4000

    MP4000 FAQ Page ................................36 How to Connect Your MP4000 Your Sonken MP4000 Karaoke Machine comes with a power cable to connect into the back and straight into a wall power socket. Then you have either standard RCA (red, white, yellow) connections [Cable included] available or HDMI Connection [Cable Sold Separately].

  • Page 22: Getting Started With Your Mp4000

    You will need a RCA (red and white) cable included into a matching to AUX jack plug in order to connect yellow Video Input connector on your MP600 to the Powered your TV. Speaker via the AUX input. OR if your TV doesn’t have a Video Yellow Input you can plug HDMI direct to your TV.

  • Page 23: Bluetooth On Your Mp4000

    However, some people need to learn a song or simply don’t want to sing alone; for this, we have Multiplex (MPX) versions which have full cover guide vocals throughout the entire song which can be switched on/off as you wish. So you can sing it as many times as you need with the vocal to learn the song and then switch it off and go solo! There are no original artist performances used in any karaoke.

  • Page 24: Meet Your Mp4000 Remote

    5. Once connected you can choose a song on your phone / YouTube to play via Bluetooth on the machine 6. With a USB inserted (blank or only with MP3+G files) select the record button on the remote or front of unit, follow any prompts and you’ll see the record symbol on the screen.
  • Page 25 Power On/Off Eject the CD drive To generate a songbook, see Pg ## Track numbers to select a particular track on a disc or enter a song number from your song book Key Control, from left to right: Lower key, bring back to centre (original key) and Switch Bluetooth Mode on and off make key higher...

  • Page 26: Mp4000 Functions Explained

    MP4000 Functions Explained USB Stick The MP4000 has a USB port for Karaoke MP3+G files to play them, record back to the USB stick, create a songbook on the USB which you can then format on your PC. The Maximum Capacity for this USB Memory Stick is 32GB, or you can plug in an external hard drive up to 1TB but it must have its own power supply and ALL Memory stick / HDDs must be formatted to FAT32 prior to being used with the MP4000, even if it was brand new.

  • Page 27: Understanding The Usb Platform On The Mp4000

    Understanding the USB Platform on the MP4000 When you insert a USB stick (up to 32GB), you have to press the USB/SD card button on the bottom of the remote to switch to USB mode where it will show you two columns, like below. At the top you will see the currently title and artist that you have highlighted, if you’re having trouble reading the song titles in this view, click “GUI SWITCH”...

  • Page 28: Recording Assistance On The Mp4000

    This will return to you the USB menu. Recording Playback Playback on the MP600 Step 1 Keep the USB inserted in the front of the machine, click the DISC/USB button on the remote Step 2 Locate the “record” folder and select it, then use the → (right) arrow to move across into the folder.

  • Page 29: Create A Songbook On The Mp4000

    Create a Songbook on the MP4000 The Sonken MP4000 has a very useful feature, an in-built songbook generator which means you can create a printable songbook with all your songs for a super easy song selection. In order to create the song book, you must have all your songs in MP3+G format (2 files per song .cdg and .mp3) on no more than an 32GB USB stick [or up to 1TB HD with its own power supply], with no other documents [Word Files, Photos etc] present on the USB.

  • Page 30: Format Song Book On The Mp4000

    Format Song Book on the MP4000 From .txt file to Excel Spreadsheet In order to generate the song list, you must follow the instructions on Page 9 of this document. Once the .txt file is on your USB and inserted to your PC, you can open it and see your list of songs in one simple list with all the song numbers in front.
  • Page 31 Step 4 Enter a full stop in the first field “find” and a hyphen - in the second field “replace” like so.. and click “replace all”. Step 5 Next, in Excel, highlight column A by clicking on the A at the top. Then select DATA, and Text to Column Step 6 Choose “Delimited”...
  • Page 32 Step 7 Choose “other” and enter a hyphen - then click next. And then finish. As you can see it is going to split the text where there are hyphens into all new columns Step 8 Now your list is easy to modify: Now depending on how you have your original files formatted there may still some that aren’t 100% like song 36 on my list, because I had it formatted M.I.L.F$ so this one I will manually fix but the majority are fine and will be very easy to swap around if need be.
  • Page 33 Options for the list: c) You can leave as is and simply put it into a black table for easy printing Simply highlight the whole section of text you want to encase in black borders. Click the border settings as shown above, and select “all borders”...
  • Page 34 You can print it like this! Easy! You can print one like this, Title – Arist and then make a second Artist – Title for those who know the Artist not the song name. Firstly, just highlight the B column where you have the song names, and select Cut (CTRL+X) ©...
  • Page 35 Then PASTE this data into column D, you can then delete the empty column B. Move to here (paste here) Delete once empty Now they’re the other way around. Highlight from the B1 column all the way down to your last song in column C, so both columns (not the track numbers) should be highlighted.
  • Page 36 MP4000 FAQ Page Q: Can I plug in my hard drive? A: Yes, you can use up to a 1TB hard drive with MP3+G karaoke songs (maximum 5000 songs). The hard drive must have its own power supply and be formatted to FAT32 prior to being loaded up with songs. Q: Can I use my TV for the crowd and a monitor for the singer to see? A: Yes, you can use HDMI (sold separately) or AV yellow to a TV for the lyrics and dually use a VGA (not included) cable to a monitor for two screens simultaneously.
  • Page 37 A: Yes, you can record your performance when playing either a CD+G or an MP3+G, recording to a USB stick. See page 8 for instructions. Q: How do I get my USB stick to work? A: Once you’ve inserted the USB into the front of the machine you must press the USB/SD Card button on the remote until you see USB MODE on the screen and the USB menu will load, there is also a button on the front panel of the machine for this.

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