Post by Dirk on Sept 16, 2022 21:34:54 GMT
Hello Torsten,
I am searching for a way to display lyrics synchronized to my DAW (mostly using Pto Tools, but maybe will switch to Reaper in future).
I like the lightweight style and flexibility of LivePrompter.
But one thing hinders me in using it in my workflow: I don't want to play my song allways from beginning or navigating manually in the lyrics during playback/recording.
During recording different parts of a song, it would be helpful to start at any position in the song and the text should be on the right position without caring about how to navigate there.
I have 3 Ideas how this could be done:
Idea 1:
Create posibillity to reference absolute musical references {position:bars/beats} instead of {duration:time} via MIDI Song position Pointer
www.recordingblogs.com/wiki/midi-song-position-pointer-message
By this, even song tempo changes can be made without recalculating the positions for the lyrics.
advantages: care free, even tempo changes (for the whole song or even in the song itself) can be handled.
disadvantages: more calculations in the code of LivePrompter
Idea 2:
I could add absolute markers/locators in the lyrics file and trgger LivePrompter via MIDI to jump to such absolute defined points.
(Aditionally it could be usefull for non DAW use to jump directly to positions via numbers on keyboard)
Idea 2a) genreic locators
It could be generic like:
"{loc}
First line of the song
Second line of the song
{loc}
Third line of the song
Fouth line of the song
{loc}
Fifth line of the song
..."
And with certain configured MIDI message (loc1= N C1) it is possible to jump to first {loc}
With certain other configured MIDI message (loc2= N D2 it is possible to jump to second {loc}
Idea 2b) absolute locators:
"{loc0}
First line of the song
Second line of the song
{loc1}
Third line of the song
Fouth line of the song
{loc2}
Fifth line of the song
..."
Same configuration of the MIDI messages for the single locator references like in 2a)
advantages: care free, easy to use
disadvantages: ?
Idea 3:
Use MIDI Timecode and sync directly to the corresponding position in the lyrics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_timecode
advantage: care free
disadvantage: tempo changes of song or tempochanges in song need adjustment to the lyrics file
Every of the three ideas has the disadvantage that there is an increase of risk for conflictung commands/tags in the lyrics and code of LivePrompter
Please let me know, if such feature would be in the scope of the functionalities in LivePrompter and which one has a chance to be realized.
If you have an other idea of how to realize a care free absolute navigation in the lyrics, I am also looking forward to hear from you.
Thank you and greetings from Stuttgart
Dirk.
I am searching for a way to display lyrics synchronized to my DAW (mostly using Pto Tools, but maybe will switch to Reaper in future).
I like the lightweight style and flexibility of LivePrompter.
But one thing hinders me in using it in my workflow: I don't want to play my song allways from beginning or navigating manually in the lyrics during playback/recording.
During recording different parts of a song, it would be helpful to start at any position in the song and the text should be on the right position without caring about how to navigate there.
I have 3 Ideas how this could be done:
Idea 1:
Create posibillity to reference absolute musical references {position:bars/beats} instead of {duration:time} via MIDI Song position Pointer
www.recordingblogs.com/wiki/midi-song-position-pointer-message
By this, even song tempo changes can be made without recalculating the positions for the lyrics.
advantages: care free, even tempo changes (for the whole song or even in the song itself) can be handled.
disadvantages: more calculations in the code of LivePrompter
Idea 2:
I could add absolute markers/locators in the lyrics file and trgger LivePrompter via MIDI to jump to such absolute defined points.
(Aditionally it could be usefull for non DAW use to jump directly to positions via numbers on keyboard)
Idea 2a) genreic locators
It could be generic like:
"{loc}
First line of the song
Second line of the song
{loc}
Third line of the song
Fouth line of the song
{loc}
Fifth line of the song
..."
And with certain configured MIDI message (loc1= N C1) it is possible to jump to first {loc}
With certain other configured MIDI message (loc2= N D2 it is possible to jump to second {loc}
Idea 2b) absolute locators:
"{loc0}
First line of the song
Second line of the song
{loc1}
Third line of the song
Fouth line of the song
{loc2}
Fifth line of the song
..."
Same configuration of the MIDI messages for the single locator references like in 2a)
advantages: care free, easy to use
disadvantages: ?
Idea 3:
Use MIDI Timecode and sync directly to the corresponding position in the lyrics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_timecode
advantage: care free
disadvantage: tempo changes of song or tempochanges in song need adjustment to the lyrics file
Every of the three ideas has the disadvantage that there is an increase of risk for conflictung commands/tags in the lyrics and code of LivePrompter
Please let me know, if such feature would be in the scope of the functionalities in LivePrompter and which one has a chance to be realized.
If you have an other idea of how to realize a care free absolute navigation in the lyrics, I am also looking forward to hear from you.
Thank you and greetings from Stuttgart
Dirk.