Press Ctrl+Shift+End to highlight the entire lyric Open the lyric editor using Edit|Lyrics or Ctrl+L Use Page Up/Down until the imported lyric staff is active If you are feeling confident, you can also move the lyric text from the lyric staff over to the actual notation staff that you think corresponds to the lyric text: Lastly, you can optionally enable layering on the notation staff directly above the lyric staff so that the lyrics will appear to belong to this staff when printing or displaying in NoteWorthy Composer Viewer. Now move the lyric staff around using Ctrl+Shift+Page Down/Up until it is under the notation staff that appears as though it represents the vocals Now, make the lyric staff active (which can now be easily done by clicking on it) Turn off the layering option on the notation staff (press F2 while the notation staff above the lyric is active, then click the Visual tab, turn off option Layer with next staff) If the lyric staff is layered with the wrong notation staff, you can layer it with a different notation staff: If no matching import instruction is found, or no note events are in the track that contains MIDI lyrics, then the lyric staff will not be layered within NoteWorthy Composer it will appear at the bottom of the score, after the notation stavesĪfter an import is completed, you can try several things to improve the results of the lyric import: The notation staff generated from the import instruction is then layered with the lyric staff generated from the MIDI lyrics If multiple NoteWorthy Composer import instructions are found for this track, the first one is considered the source for a matching a notation staff for the MIDI lyrics found in the file If MIDI note data is present, the list of NoteWorthy Composer import instructions are checked to see if any note data is being imported from this track NoteWorthy Composer uses the following scheme when layering a lyric staff with a notation staff during import:įirst, the track where the MIDI lyric events are found is checked for MIDI note data This does not always work very well, due to the inherent limitations described earlier in this article. In addition, NoteWorthy Composer will try to layer an imported lyric staff with the corresponding note data that matches the lyric. The staff itself is given only a single staff line, to make it clear that it is a vocal only trackĮach lyric staff will be marked in a Lyrics group from File|Page Setup|Contents and Staff|Staff Properties|General, to make them easier to find and manipulateĪll notation on the staff is set to Never show on the printed page, so only the lyric text will appear when printedĪll fake notes entered on the staff will appear in hidden treble clef, although technically the notes themselves have no significance, except as a medium for attaching the lyric syllables found in the file (you can change the hidden clef without having any effect on the lyric staff) Each lyric-only staff imported into NoteWorthy Composer has the following properties:Įach lyric syllable is attached to a fake, muted note that is added to the staff solely for the purpose of attaching lyric text (it does not sound during play back) So, what does this all have to do with NoteWorthy Composer? Well, since lyric text is not bounded/framed by any other MIDI performance data, NoteWorthy Composer imports each lyric track into a separate lyric-only staff when importing MIDI data into NWC format. These syllables might correspond to note events that are also included in the MIDI file, but there is no rule that it must be this way. The actual length of time that each syllable is sung is not specified in the MIDI file (although it obviously does not extend beyond the start time of the next syllable). Lyric text in a MIDI file simply identifies a chronological sequence of syllables that should be sung with the song, and the time at which each syllable should start to be sung. Text that is included in a MIDI file is not associated with any particular note pitch or duration, and can appear anywhere in the file, even if no instrument/note performance data is present. MIDI files can optionally include text events, including text identified as Lyric Text. They generally contain raw performance data that represents exactly how a song should be played, but not really how it should be notated. However, MIDI files are not notation based files. MIDI files can be imported into NoteWorthy Composer song files using the File|Import command. What is imported when a MIDI file has lyrics?
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