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    Writing lyrics and song structure

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by Frans van den Berge

    I had my trackview open. Opened lyrics. Went to midi track to see the lyric. Left was the arranger block overview. Above timeline ruler and arranger track. The first 3 blocks were named Intro, precursor and verse.

    I went to the start of these arranger blocks and at that time I gave in that name in the lyrics page. At playback these words were moved, and did not align with the timeline ruler when moved to the start of each blok of the arranger track. 

    Writing lyrics and song structure

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by Frans van den Berge

    16 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

    Although I don't know what you mean by 'blocks'. Clips, maybe?

    I am using an arranger track. The timeline (and exact time) wich can be seen moving in the track window, cannot be seen in the lyrics page.
     

    If the colours of the arranger track would be visible and/or time, you could adjust words/phrasing according to music. 

    Writing lyrics and song structure

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by Frans van den Berge

    Adding and editing lyrics in the Lyrics view (Taken from the online x2 Sonar manual)

    Lyrics appeal in the Lyrics view as a stream of syllables, each one associated with a note in the track. In this context, a syllable is any continuous string of characters, without a hyphen. For example, “love,” “desire,” and “infatuation” are all syllables; each one would be associated with a single note. If you want to break a word into multiple syllables, you must hyphenate the word. For example, “de-sire” would map onto two notes, since it is now two syllables long.

    When you enter the lyrics, you can mark the syllables the way you want, or you can simply type the text in normally and use automatic hyphenation to break the text into syllables. This means that you can add lyrics to a project by copying and pasting them from another application (such as a word processor), and then hyphenate them automatically.

    To extend a single syllable over more than one note, you can use extra hyphens, separated by spaces. For example, in “Oh-say can you see…”, the “Oh” is extended over two notes. If a track contains no lyrics yet, the display will show only a series of hyphens (one for each note in the track).

    If you enter more syllables than there are notes in the track, SONAR assigns the extra lyrics times at quarter note intervals.

    To enter lyrics in the Lyrics view

    1.

    Click in the upper left corner of the view to position the cursor at the start of the text.

    2.

    Follow the instructions in the table:

    Table 201.  

    To do this

    Do this

    Enter a word or syllable

    Type it

    End a word or syllable and move to the next note

    Type a space or hyphen

    Break a line for easier viewing

    Press ENTER

    To edit lyrics in the Lyrics view

    Editing in the Lyrics view follows standard Windows conventions for cursor movement, selection, cut (CTRL+X), copy (CTRL+C), paste (CTRL+V), and delete (DELETE). When you pause, SONAR will update all Lyric events in the track.

    To hyphenate the lyrics

    1.

    If you want, select a portion of the lyric text. If you do not select any text, all the lyrics will be hyphenated.

    2.

    Click the Lyrics view Font menu and choose Hyphenate.

    SONAR hyphenates the lyrics.

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    Writing lyrics and song structure

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by Frans van den Berge

    (Taken from the X3 Sonar manual) Entering Lyrics From the Staff View. Cakewalk has the ability to add lyrics directly to the Staff View. To do so, select the Pencil tool and move the cursor underneath the lowest note on the staff. Continue to move the cursor down until the pencil appears with a capital "T" next to it; then click.

    Writing lyrics and song structure

    in Cakewalk by BandLab

    Posted · Edited by Frans van den Berge

    So I have 2 audio tracks (bass) (guitar) midi track (empty) and a drum pattern trough a drum instrument. The drum pattern has intro chorus verse chorus verse solo chorus verse outtro.

     

    can I structure lyrics and create blocks without midi notes? Is there an advanced way of dealing with using Sonar as a sing a song writing tool and create from scratsch? 
     

    If I create blocks (arranger track) will that be seen inside the lyrics page? 

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