Peder Before every song, I make a short presentation.
Would it be possible to implement a support for this ?
Hi Peder, I don’t know how you run ST3 so I can’t comment to help you exactly but I will explain how I would do it with my way of running ST3 as I do have songs I start performing and I need lyrics then I trigger start later when needed, so your need is very similar as you have a need for presentation then you start.
I use stereo backing with line time-coded lyrics
In my text editor I place a full all zero timecode [00.00.00] at the beginning,after that I place in your case presentation then after the presentation I place another timecode but this time it is [00.00.01] this is actually my song start timecode where my backing track starts.
So when the song gets loaded the whole short presentation is displayed and highlighted for you so in my case I can freely sing my intro and as I hit start the song backing audio the lyrics follow in sync.
The issue you will get with this is if your presentation is long then it won’t all fit on the page so to help I make sure I use the line lyrics setup to the top of screen, this gives you more lines to see and I reduce my text size to see more lyrics at once , but if I really had the need for much longer presentation regularly I would then introduce a foot pedal page turn so I can step through the screen and when I hit start BANG! My backing track starts and presto my first song lyrics begin to auto scroll.
The other advantage of this is when the song pops up and all your lyrics are highlighted in my case yellow it is a great prompt that in this song you are presenting first in my case I am free tuning an intro , this makes it so easy if you have lots of different songs to perform.
I hope this helps as I don’t know your way of running ST3, as it can cater for many different uses.
Good luck Damir
