Vertical position of the Lyrics transport bar

[Giuseppe_Loffredo]

Hi VST Live team,

I’m not sure if this is intended behavior or a bug in the design of the Lyrics transport bar.

The line appears in the vertical center (as I would have expected) of the area dedicated to lyrics in the case of an unmaximized window, while it is drawn, starting from the top, more or less at 1/3 of the area dedicated to lyrics in the case of maximized window.

In my case, the most frequently used feature is the one with the maximized window.

After having prepared a good number of Songs using the Lyrics function and having used this function in rehearsals, I realized that it would be desirable to have the Lyrics transport bar always and in any case vertically centered in the area dedicated to the lyrics.

I await your feedback, thanks.

[Spork]

Hi @Giuseppe_Loffredo,

could you please give us some screenshot about the current behaviour and a screenshot with your wish behaviour? Maybe you could draw a line or something. Then I surely understand your problem. At the moment the transport cursor should stop at 1/3 of the hight of the screen while the timeline of the left will move on.

/Michael.

[Giuseppe_Loffredo]

Hi @Spork ,

first of all, I apologize because, investigating the issue of the aqua transport bar position, I realized that the behavior I denoted occurs only in the (rather rare) transition from maximized to unmaximized window and viceversa: in other words, I think it is of a decidedly negligible incoherent representation.

On the contrary, the current positioning of the aqua transport bar at 1/3 of the area dedicated to lyrics I really think it is desirable to bring it to a 1/2 and I say this after having prepared many lyrics with different BPM and metrics (and hearing the complaints of my singer ).

Wanting to be more precise and with the help of screenshots of the as-is situation:

Thus realizing a to-do scenario:

To further improve the usability of the Lyrics functionality, I would also suggest an approach already used in the Chords functionality that distinguishes the GUI in editing and non-editing state; in practice, if the edit is enabled, the GUI would be (except for the Edit button) the as-is one:

While in the case of disabled edit, it should be impossible to select a lyric and the portion of the interface dedicated to the single lyric properties should be hidden thus recovering space for displaying the lyrics:

I await your feedback on what I hypothesized, thanks!

[Giuseppe_Loffredo]

Hi @spork,

a kind reminder for my proposal contained in my last reply to this post.

Do you think it’s something valid and feasible?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

[Spork]

Hi @Giuseppe_Loffredo,

sorry. Here we go …

@Giuseppe_Loffredo

On the contrary, the current positioning of the aqua transport bar at 1/3 of the area dedicated to lyrics I really think it is desirable to bring it to a 1/2 and I say this after having prepared many lyrics with different BPM and metrics (and hearing the complaints of my singer ).

… sounds like a Preference? “1/3” (Default) and “1/2” and “2/3”. What do you say?

@Giuseppe_Loffredo

To further improve the usability of the Lyrics functionality, I would also suggest an approach already used in the Chords functionality that distinguishes the GUI in editing and non-editing state; in practice, if the edit is enabled, the GUI would be (except for the Edit button) the as-is one:

… Oh, yes. Good one.

@Giuseppe_Loffredo

While in the case of disabled edit, it should be impossible to select a lyric and the portion of the interface dedicated to the single lyric properties should be hidden thus recovering space for displaying the lyrics:

We are working on a Lock-Control-Feature. You would lock the events with that one.

See you,
Michael

[Giuseppe_Loffredo]

@Spork

… sounds like a Preference? “1/3” (Default) and “1/2” and “2/3”. What do you say?

Having the possibility (if I understand correctly) for the user to be able to set the aqua transport bar position among the options [1/3, 1/2, 2/3] as a Preference would be the best, even if I would keep 1/2 as default

[Giuseppe_Loffredo]

@Spork

… sounds like a Preference? “1/3” (Default) and “1/2” and “2/3”. What do you say?

Hi @Spork,

just to know if the idea of being able to customize the position of the aqua transport bar is still alive for you or not.

As I told you at the time, the position at 1/2 of the area dedicated to lyrics would be desirable to better manage the active text duration.