Thank you so much for your quick reply. I will do that, and probably need to watch some videos again, notes are also a good idea. I want to learn it despite the difficulties, even though I definitely don’t want to move away from Noteperformer. The Noteperformer Solocello, e.g., is really the best I have ever heard in a notation software context. Worlds better than from MuseSounds, and far beyond Vienna that I used to have with Capella before.
I have just started using EW Wordbuilder with Symphonic Choirs and am running into a lot of confusion.
I started (after reading the manual) practicing on an Anglican chant, which was simple enough: just add lyrics to count off the chant (1, 2, 3, 4…) as we used to have to do as a chorister.
Now I am trying to add lyrics to a backup chorus that chimes in at sundry places in a much longer piece, and I have no idea how to sync the words with the notes, especially when the chorus has melismas on a single syllable. I thought the Learn function would help me. (Is it like the record function in EmVoice?) But it left no trace of doing anything in the text box.
I’d appreciate any help folks can offer. Thanks in advance.
Wordbuilder is very simple in essence (if not always in practice)-- you need a hyphen or space between every sung note which of course includes melismas. The screenshot illustrates this. And every time you stop playback, Wordbuilder starts reading from the beginning again so when creating a new section, I find it usually easiest to copy this to the top in WB to check it’s OK. When all’s OK, then just delete the copy from the top.
Or perhaps there’s some specific difficulty I’m missing?
With a helpful DM from @dko22 …
I’ve played with this a little. I got into trouble with curly apostrophes pasted in from the original lyrics: Wordbuiilder virtually locked me out with a caution on every change.
I reset the Playback Template and re-added the Play VST for each choral part (have also tried with Opus) and seem to be on the right track. Now need to flip to Votox to fine tune the syllables.
I think I’m good-to-go for the time being.
if you do something WB doesn’t like, it’s strongly advised to immediately use its UNDO feature, otherwise it can become unstable. I know this from bitter experience…
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