Lyric copy/paste/delete and move
Hi... I use Noteflight to write songs, and my lyric process is pretty non-linear. Often I find I'll come up with say a verse, and only later realize that it's the last verse of 3. I wish I could quickly shift it down, but you don't seem to have any way to cut and paste more than a syllable of lyric. I could send you a video of me retyping the verse in its entirety, but I think you get the picture. I actually do this, and then--and here's another aspect of this feature that would be required--I have to delete or overwrite the first verse syllable by syllable.
I have a few beefs with the product but have gotta say I generally love it. Keep up the good work!
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I actually just posted a comment where I mentioned that it would be cool to have a function so that chunks of what appears on the screen could be highlighted and cut and pasted to a word program for artistic purposes - like if you are putting together a music book. I am wondering if that kind of concept would maybe somehow work with this issue that you present. Being able to highlight and cut lines of lyric would be helpful...
I am a songwriter too and I use Noteflight to document melody and lyric, and I totally get what you are talking about. When I have a song Idea I have to wait until it is pretty well formulated before I start to put it into Noteflight. It's kind of the finishing touch.
Me love Noteflight!
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Yes I completely agree that the lyrics editing capability needs drastic improvement asap. I have been using NF for a couple months now exclusively for score composing, and just this week tried adding lyrics. I don't mind putting in some time to learn a new process, and the logic behind the syllable adding makes sense. But the inability to edit any lyrics at more than a snail's pace is extraordinarily off-putting. After searching and finding that NF simply doesn't have any ability to edit lyrics en masse, I am now relegated to writing them on paper and then only once the lyrics are "perfected" will I take the time to enter then in NF. Once they are there it is a PAIN to move them around and modify them.
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Agreed, absolutely need this feature! As a choral conductor I transcribe our pieces into Noteflight so that the various voices can listen to their lines and learn their harmonies. It would be a HUGE help and save a lot of time if I could copy and paste lyrics rather than retyping them. They are singing in chorale style so the syllables and rhythms match already, just need to be able to copy the lyrics from one voice into another.
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I don't mind the lyric writing, but I just wrote 4 verses to a song. I wanted an interlude using the notes of the vocal in the bass part of the piano, copied and pasted (which included all four verses of the song when I pasted) and moved the notes down an octave. Then I proceeded syllable-by-syllable to get rid of the first verse of the song, only to find out that I cannot now access the second, third or fourth verse anymore after deleting the first verse. Very frustrating! I will "undo" a zillion times and try again, this time deleting the fourth verse first (syllable-by-syllable) and working backwards to see if I have better luck. It would have been easier for me to just write out the music sans words than what I am doing.
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