User Manual

QUICKSCRIBE EDITOR
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If you don’t make a track selection, then the lyrics
will flow into the first visible track in the score,
beginning at the first note at — or after — the
playback wiper location. If you select a note in a
track, the lyric will flow over the notes in that track
only, beginning at the selected note. If you select
notes in multiple tracks, the lyric will be “shared”
by all of those tracks, and will flow over the
combined notes in all of the selected tracks. See
“Lyrics preferences” below for settings that control
how lyrics are displayed for multiple tracks.
5 Click on the Auto Flow button to flow the
selected lyric text into the selected tracks.
Reflowing text after making edits
The Lyrics window is not dynamically linked to the
text in the QuickScribe score. Therefore, if you
make changes in the Lyrics window, you will need
to reflow the text afterwards to update the
QuickScribe score. Remember, you can reflow just
a portion of the lyrics by selecting just the edited
text in the Lyrics window and then selecting the
note in the score where you want it to reflow.
Erasing lyrics
To erase lyrics, use the Arrow tool to select the
desired lyrics in the QuickScribe window and press
the Delete key or choose Erase from the Edit menu.
To quickly erase a large section of lyrics, select a
note in the part whose lyrics you want to erase and
press the Erase in Track button in the Lyrics
window. This will erase all lyrics in the selected
part after the selected note.
Copying and pasting lyrics
Lyrics are not MIDI events; rather, they are a
special kind of QuickScribe page text. Therefore,
they will not copy along with notes if you cut and
paste sections of the notes themselves. You can,
however, easily recapture the lyrics from the copied
section to the Lyrics window and then re-flow
them into the QuickScribe score at the pasted
location; see “Recapturing lyrics from the score
into the Lyrics window”, below.
Hiding lyrics
To temporarily hide lyrics, deselect “Show Lyrics”
in the QuickScribe mini-menu.
Lyrics in an arranged score
You can enter lyrics into a linear score and then
arrange it. Once arranged, lyrics for verses will
automatically stack on top of each other in verse
sections. You can also arrange the score first, and
then Auto Flow into the arranged score. In that
case, the Auto Flow algorithm still flows the lyrics
into each linear measure in turn, stacking the lyrics
as needed in the second, third, etc. pass through
the repeated sections.
Converting regular page text into lyrics
If you have projects containing regular page text
that you would like to convert to lyric text, the
Capture Non-Lyric Text command (Lyrics window
mini-menu) pulls the text from page text objects in
the score (excluding date/time and page numbers)
and puts the resulting text into the Lyrics window.
The text from each text object will appear on a line
by itself in the Lyrics window, and all instances of
two or more spaces will be reduced to a single
space.
Once all of the page text is in the Lyrics window,
you can edit it to add syllable breaks and
extensions. Delete the old page text from the score
and use the Auto Flow process to flow all of the text
back onto the score as lyric text.
Recapturing lyrics from the score into the
Lyrics window
The Lyrics window is not dynamically linked to the
text in the QuickScribe score. Therefore, if you add
new lyrics directly to the QuickScribe score or
make edits directly on the score, these changes will