In Session View, I want the lyrics rolling on an external display with the triggered audio clip. I'm able to do this in Logic with Marker Text Window. What's the best solution for doing this in Live? Converting lyrics text files to video files and MIDI trigger them in Resolume Avenue? But this time if I beat repeat in Live or something similar, lyrics video syncs out in timeline with the audio.
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Noyan.
On stage Performing Live With Lyrics on an External Display
Re: On stage Performing Live With Lyrics on an External Display
hi,
I've never done this live, but in the studio I do the following thing for singers and it works like a charm.
Pull the lyrics up in some format. Take screenshots (capturing just the block of lyrics you want) of the relevant sections (say verse, chorus, verse, chorus). Now drag those .pngs into a track on the timeline at the appropriate section beginnings, and pull them out to the length of the section. Presto, instant page-turning lyrics in a big font.
'course, it doesn't really matter how you produce the images, but rubber-banding areas on the screen is so fast in Mac OS X that I haven't found another way that competes with it for convenience.
hth,
-Luddy
I've never done this live, but in the studio I do the following thing for singers and it works like a charm.
Pull the lyrics up in some format. Take screenshots (capturing just the block of lyrics you want) of the relevant sections (say verse, chorus, verse, chorus). Now drag those .pngs into a track on the timeline at the appropriate section beginnings, and pull them out to the length of the section. Presto, instant page-turning lyrics in a big font.
'course, it doesn't really matter how you produce the images, but rubber-banding areas on the screen is so fast in Mac OS X that I haven't found another way that competes with it for convenience.
hth,
-Luddy
Re: On stage Performing Live With Lyrics on an External Display
Thanks for the tip but, I want to do that in Session View with audio clips.
Re: On stage Performing Live With Lyrics on an External Display
with Max4Live you could write a simple device that display the name of the playing clip on a second screen.
Robert
Robert
Re: On stage Performing Live With Lyrics on an External Display
It should be possible with luddy's tip:
Set up your stuff in session view and set up an additional track
with your lyrics in arrangement. This track has to be empty in
session view, also erase all stop buttons so that nothing you do
in session view prevents the lyrics track from running in
arrangement.
In arrangement put a locator in front of every png.
Now you can use the great ClyphX script with it's LOC and LOOP
commands in session view to jump to the different lyric parts in
arrangement and loop them as long as you need them.
http://beatwise.proboards.com/index.cgi ... thread=716
Set up your stuff in session view and set up an additional track
with your lyrics in arrangement. This track has to be empty in
session view, also erase all stop buttons so that nothing you do
in session view prevents the lyrics track from running in
arrangement.
In arrangement put a locator in front of every png.
Now you can use the great ClyphX script with it's LOC and LOOP
commands in session view to jump to the different lyric parts in
arrangement and loop them as long as you need them.
http://beatwise.proboards.com/index.cgi ... thread=716
Re: On stage Performing Live With Lyrics on an External Display
Thanks guys! I'll try them.