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Songs and the Sequencer
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO FOLLOW WHEN PROGRAMMING THE
LYRICS AND CHORDS TRACKS USING A COMPUTER
Programming the Lyrics and Chords track using a computer (or sequencer) requires
special attention in order to ensure good results.
LYRICS TRACK
1. The event recognised by WX to create the track containing texts is the LYRIC
event. Therefore, all sequencer software or score writing programs which control
this type of event are suitable for the purpose of creating the LYRICS track.
(example: ATARI: Notator / MAC: Notator Logic and others).
2. All ASCII Standard characters that fall between 33 and 127 are recognised. All
letters already accented are excluded. To create a letter with an accent, use the
symbol normally used to obtain an apostrophe (’).
3. The character used to syllabize a word is the “under-score” (_). Therefore, to
syllabize a word with the scope of Synchronising it with the corresponding notes,
the word “instrument” for example, should be written as: “in_stru_ment”.
4. A free space inserted between two syllables is recognised as “end-word” (simply
use the space bar).
5. Up to eight characters can be used for each note of a melody. All characters that
exceed the limit will not be seen.
6. The “pipe” symbol (¶) is used to indicate the end of a paragraph.
WX is capable of displaying a maximum of 20 characters per line when using the
“BIG” font. It is not permitted to start a new paragraph (insertion of the “pipe”
symbol “¶”) between two syllables positioned under the same note (example:
ra¶an_).
CHORDS TRACK
1. To programme the CHORDS track, in other words the chord symbols, you must
use TEXT type events.
2. Chord symbols are written using the international notation (A, B, C, etc.).
3. Insert a space between the letter corresponding to the chord symbol and the
abbreviation of the same chord. For example, C minor seventh = C(space)min7.
N.B. In order that WX can recognise and, therefore, display all the various chords,
they must be written as shown in point 5 below.
4. It is also possible to add an extension to a chord symbol (divided chord: for
example C Major with bass G).
In this case, use the “slash” symbol (/) after the chord symbol and the note: example
C / G.
5. Chords recognised by WX:
C (major) C min C 7 C min7 C aug C dim C min7_5b C sus4
C min_7# C maj7 C add9 C 5b C 7_5b C maj7_5b C 7_5# C sus4_7
C 6 C min6 C 7_9 C maj7_9 C min7_9 C 7_9b C min_ad9 C 6_9
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