With navigate right and left commands we can navigate through notes in a Omnivocal track but it should be way faster if we have keycommands that let navigate and enable text input so that with a single key press we go to next note and position in text field to just type whatever we want and pressing that key again position in the next (or previous) note.
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I agree with the suggestion.
In case you weren’t aware, though, you can also just select the first note of a phrase, then type all the words for that phrase into the text field for the first note, and it will position the relevant text parts across the number of notes corresponding to the syllables you’ve entered.
One key thing to watch out for in this is melismas (i.e. stretching one syllable across two or more notes), where you’ll either need to stop the multi-syllable entry at the first note of the melisma, add the phonemes to address the first note and deal with the additional notes, then continue with the next phrase or put extra dummy syllables/words in then go back and edit those later. I used both options in a project I was working on yesterday where I wanted to use Omnivocal with a melody line as a temporary placeholder while working on arranging instrumental tracks.
I don’t know if would also have been possible to just enter phonemes for the melismas within a phrase instead of the English words, but that might end up slowing me down unless I’d already memorized the specific vowel phonemes needed for such words.
yes I know but entering the whole phrase only works with short words…I find better results when a i.e 3 syllable word has 3 notes assigned although you´d tend to assign that word to 1 note.
you may enter phonemes in brackets but not in the whole phrase.
Could be. I think the song I was doing yesterday only had 1- and 2-syllable words. It did get all the breaking of syllables and notes right on those, though. I was pleasantly surprised that it even did so on a proper name (“Yvonne”, which was the title of the song). That was really my first time trying it using the phrase entry to that degree, and it did improve my speed considerably compared to entering a note at a time (other than for the melismas).
Just to clarify what you mean here, if I want to enter, “please make all my dreams come true,” as a phrase, where “true” is spread across three notes, with all the rest being a single syllable per note, can I enter “please make all my dreams come [t r uw -] [uw -] [uw]”? Or are the phonemes in brackets not allowed at all if entering a phrase from the first note? The way I did this particular phrase yesterday was to simply enter the actual phrase with words, then go into the first note of “true” and add the hyphen, then go into the next two notes, one at a time, to add the additional phonemes.
The other type of case I was thinking of had the word “dance” across two notes in the middle of a phrase. In that case, I just entered “dance dance”, then went into the two notes to replace the “n s” with a hyphen on the first one and remove the “ae “ from the second. That at least kept the ending of the phrase hitting the right notes.
to enter a word through 3 notes you can add the word in the first one with double hyphen first
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