Lyrics patch

[graphite412]

I was wondering if there could be a way to make a lyrics patch.
This way I could display lyrics or chords or whatever inside of usine, and
trigger different songs lyrics as I play in real time. Any suggestions will
help a lot.

[23fx23]

hi graphite412, you can make your hand with using some textfield or Text/image panels in /interface design, filling with your lyrics.
then 'animate' visibility input of the panels, to display or not, or use some listbox so you can scroll lines, or by script can make nice things also..if well remember bsork made such a script to display line, but maybe out of date now...

list box seems the easiest way to go as you can display whole text or a single line if routing a textfield out, and easy choose what do display using numbers on input, linked to some events of your liveset.

[woodslanding]

Biggest pb is that AFAIK Usine doesn't have any object that can store text on a per-preset basis....

there are some workarounds. You could use the text of the preset name as an input to a script that loads a similarly named text file from disk.

Otherwise you need a different wkp for every song.

This has got me thinking though. Could the text from a textfield be stored in an array somehow, to simulate this behaviour?

[nay-seven]

here a simple example to begin :
set the where option of the listbox to invisible

and an other way for several songs

[woodslanding]

I have just tried this, and I can't figure out how to store different data in an array with each conductor patch.

This must be possible, right???

[nay-seven]

not sure using array will be interesting in this case , linking the number outlet of the conductor to the select fader on my patch will do the job..?

[23fx23]

Biggest pb is that AFAIK Usine doesn't have any object that can store text on a per-preset basis....
...This has got me thinking though. Could the text from a textfield be stored in an array somehow, to simulate this behaviour?

mmmm wrong:
as far as i now text field are stored to presets:

here is an exemple storing to pm native textfield, (can also convert any text to array and save, as in fact text = array),
so can scoll lines with lines input, edit the whole text in listbox and save/recall the commatext via preset manager, ie linked to song/conductor, or just use same preset manager for params saving and lyrics saving. (of course need to save the preset once whole text is edited)..


using nay technique but to dispatch the comma text, could ie save 16x dispatch x16 preset for 256 comma texts of Xlines recall.
or use gurulogic 128 preset manager if need more then 16...

[woodslanding]

Hmmm. This may work with a local preset manager, but it doesn't seem to work with conductor presets at all.

Shouldn't the conductor be able to store anything a local PM can??

[woodslanding]

yep that's it.

Olivier, is this a bug?? Shouldn't the conductor be able to save any data a local preset manager can???

And if not, why not? It doesn't make much sense to me......

(However, since this gives a way of naming presets in a local preset manager, I may start using this feature more.....)

[23fx23]

right, work in pm not in conductor ( i don't use conductor that much, i use more pm in my stuff, but i know it's the huge part of usine im missing)
as a workaround can't we drive num save and recall from conductor to local preset manager via some buss?
i agree it's a bit abstract what pm/conductor save and differences, maybe a dedicaced tutorial by some experts (manecante?)
would be nice..

[grego mondo]

hello may be you can get what I used there : http://sensomusic.com/forums/uploaded/Wspace.zip

I did something like when Conductor is n°5 then show this text (with chords and song structure)

I have to make an add on out of it (and for the Wii too)

see you

[woodslanding]

Hmmm, I am getting '403 forbidden' again with this upload.....

[nay-seven]

@woodslanding : right click and save the link target as or something like that..