User guide

NEW FEATURES IN DIGITAL PERFORMER 7.24
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5 Click on the Auto Flow button to flow the selected lyric
text into the selected tracks.
Reflowing text after making edits
The Lyrics window is not dynamically linked to the text in
the QuickScribe score. Therefore, if you make changes in the
Lyrics window, you will need to reflow the text afterwards to
update the QuickScribe score. Remember, you can reflow
just a portion of the lyrics by selecting just the edited text in
the Lyrics window and then selecting the note in the score
where you want it to reflow.
Erasing lyrics
To erase lyrics, use the Arrow tool to select the desired lyrics
in the QuickScribe window and press the Delete key or
choose Erase from the Edit menu.
To quickly erase a large section of lyrics, select a note in the
part(s) whose lyrics you want to erase and press the Erase in
Tr ac k button in the Lyrics window. This will erase all lyrics in
the selected part(s) after the selected note.
Copying and pasting lyrics
Lyrics are not MIDI events; rather, they are a special kind of
QuickScribe page text. Therefore, they will not copy along
with notes if you cut and paste sections of the notes
themselves. You can, however, easily recapture the lyrics
from the copied section to the Lyrics window and then re-
flow them into the QuickScribe score at the pasted location;
see “Recapturing lyrics from the score into the Lyrics
window”, below.
Hiding lyrics
To temporarily hide lyrics, deselect “Show Lyrics” in the
QuickScribe mini-menu.
Lyrics in an arranged score
You can enter lyrics into a linear score and then arrange it.
Once arranged, lyrics for verses will automatically stack on
top of each other in verse sections. You can also arrange the
score first, and then Auto Flow into the arranged score. In
that case, the Auto Flow algorithm still flows the lyrics into
each linear measure in turn, stacking the lyrics as needed in
each pass through the repeated sections.
Converting regular page text into lyrics
If you have projects containing regular page text that you
would like to convert to lyric text, the Capture Non-Lyric Text
command (Lyrics window mini-menu) pulls the text from
page text objects in the score (excluding date/time and page
numbers) and puts the resulting text into the Lyrics window.
The text from each text object will appear on a line by itself in
the Lyrics window, and all instances of two or more spaces
will be reduced to a single space.
Once all of the page text is in the Lyrics window, you can edit
it to add syllable breaks and extensions. Delete the old page
text from the score and use the Auto Flow process to flow all
of the text back onto the score as lyric text.
Recapturing lyrics from the score into the Lyrics window
The Lyrics window is not dynamically linked to the text in
the QuickScribe score. Therefore, if you add new lyrics
directly to the QuickScribe score or make edits directly on
the score, these changes will not be automatically reflected in
the Lyrics window. To update the Lyrics window text, you
must recapture the lyrics from the score.
If you would like to send lyric text from the score to the Lyrics
window, choose Capture Lyric Text from the Lyrics window
mini-menu. This captures the lyric text for the tracks shown
in the QuickScribe score; if there is a selection, only the lyrics
in that time range will be captured.
To capture all text from the score (excluding date/time and
page numbers), use the Capture All Text command.
Lyrics preferences
The Preferences window (Digital Performer menu) has a
Lyrics pane to specify the default text style, placement, and
syllable extension behavior of lyrics.
Figure 53: Lyrics preferences
Lyric text style
Options are provided to specify the font, size, and style of
lyric text in the Lyrics window and on the QuickScribe page.