Reference Guide

1114 Notation and lyrics
Working with lyrics
To edit lyrics
1. Select the Draw Freehand tool in the Control Bar.
2. Click the word you want to change.
3. Edit the word as desired.
4. Press ENTER.
SONAR replaces the old word with the new one.
Opening the Lyrics view
There are three ways to open the Lyrics view:
• In the Track view, select the track whose lyrics you want to see, then choose Views > Lyrics
• Right-click a clip in the Clips pane and choose Views > Lyrics from the menu
• Press ALT+SHIFT+1
To select the track whose lyrics you want to see, click the Lyrics view Tracks menu and choose Pick
Tracks, then select the desired track and click OK.
To select a font for the display, click the Lyrics view Font menu and choose one of the following
commands:
• Font A. Selects the first font. By default, this is a small font useful for editing.
• Font B. Selects the second font. By default, this is a larger font useful for reading lyrics at a
distance.
• Fonts. Opens a dialog box where you can select a font. The selected font is then assigned as
Font A or B (depending on which is currently selected).
Adding and editing lyrics in the Lyrics view
Lyrics appear 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.