editing midi lyric track without messing up lyrics

[GBTBassist]

Hi

Hope this is the right forum....

I use a basic midi piano to write the melody for my songs. Usual approach I use is one syllable per midi note then I give it to a real singer who turns it into a human articulated melody.

The problem I have is that each time I edit midi notes, e.g. to copy a melody to another point in the song, I can't prevent Cakewalk copying the lyrics too. Similarly when deleting midi notes I find the associated word has also been deleted. This is not what I want to happen and very quickly turns my lyrics into meaningless characters.

Is there a way to edit midi notes, cut/copy/paste, without affecting the associated lyrics?

many thanks

GBT

[Promidi]

What I have done to speed things up a bit is create a key binding (in my case ALT F) to Edit | Select | By filter.  Then use presets.

[Promidi]

There are times I need to do this as well.  What I do in this instance is this. 

First I select the part of track that contains the notes or lyrics I wish to copy (Select the entire track if necessary).

Then I head to Menu item Edit | Select | by filter.

Then I leave the ticks on the event types I wish to copy.  If I don't want the lyrics , I just deselect the "Lyric" and "text"

Then I do the copy

I have also saved my most used configuration as a preset.

Hope that helps

[GBTBassist]

Thanks Promidi - I had forgotten that feature was there. Its a bit long winded when I just want to copy a few midi notes here and there but at least it works.

[GBTBassist]

great tip @Promidi - have now set up multiple presets to use for velocities over 110 (to introduce headroom), events excluding lyrics and other common repeated edit selections. What a timesaver.👍

 

Thanks for sharing.