KAR files are based on standard Midi files with the following additional events:

The KAR text meta events start with an @ followed by a character indicating the type of KAR text meta event, then followed by text for that event.  The following text meta events occur embedded in regular MIDI text events:

FileType:     @KMIDI KARAOKE FILE
Version:      @V0100
Information:  @I<text>
Language:     @LENGL
Title 1:      @T<title>
Title 2:      @T<author>
Title 3:      @T<copyright>

The following lyric text indicators are defined.  A \ (backslash) in the text is to clear the screen. A / (forwardslash) in the text is a line feed (next line).