Disklavier

Greetings Joan,

I have a mac but am not very proficient with it and do not have MidiSwing.

If a MIDI file has note events perfectly to the bar and if the lyrics are hyphenated perfectly (one single beat error or hyphenation error or trying to do it with a hand played MIDI will screw up the synchronization) automatic importing of lyrics could work. I am mainly interested in adding lyrics to piano roll emulations many of which are either hand played or edited so you can not expect the notes to fall precisely on beats.

I have a little time today and was actually going to try writing a program to add lyrics that works from a hyphenated text file but uses a keyboard key to do the synchronizing instead of trying to do it automatically.

Does anyone else have interest in this? I'll put a little more effort into it and make it more sophisticated if it is for more than my use alone. The initial idea is to use a text file with one line per measure. This is the way most that you find on the internet are formatted. Automatic hyphenation is somewhat difficult but there are modules to do that and I might be able to add that feature at some point.