CAKEWALK SONAR - Adding and Editing Lyrics in the Lyrics View

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To select a font for the display, use one of the following:
Adding and Editing Lyrics in the Lyrics View
Lyrics appear in the Lyrics view as a stream of syllables, each one associated with
a note in the track. In this context, a syllable is any continuous string of
characters, without a hyphen. For example, “love,” “desire,” and “infatuation” are
all syllables; each one would be associated with a single note. If you want to break
a word into multiple syllables, you must hyphenate the word. For example, “de-
sire” would map onto two notes, since it is now two syllables long.
When you enter the lyrics, you can mark the syllables the way you want, or you
can simply type the text in normally and use automatic hyphenation to break the
text into syllables. This means that you can add lyrics to a project by copying and
pasting them from another application (such as a word processor), and then
hyphenate them automatically.
To extend a single syllable over more than one note, you can use extra hyphens,
separated by spaces. For example, in “Oh-say can you see…”, the “Oh” is extended
over two notes. If a track contains no lyrics yet, the display will show only a series
of hyphens (one for each note in the track).
If you enter more syllables than there are notes in the track, SONAR assigns the
extra lyrics times at quarter note intervals.
Option/Button... Purpose...
Selects the first font. By default, this is a small font useful
for editing.
Selects the second font. By default, this is a larger font
useful for reading lyrics at a distance.
Opens a dialog where you can select a font. The
selected font is then assigned as Font A or B (depending
on which is currently selected).