Category: PAGE Authoring HELP

Chapter 18 – Specifying A Web Page For Lyrics To display synchronized, styled lyrics in a TuneLing, we need permission from the song’s “publisher” – the legal entity or person who controls the copyright for the composition (lyrics and melody) of the song. (This is not the same copyright as that for the “sound recording”.)…

Chapter 17 – Getting An iTunes Link For An Audio File Pro Tip: When making a BYOA (Bring Your Own Audio) Tuneling, it’s really smart to first buy a copy of the song from iTunes (unless you already have it), and use that to make the TuneLing. Since that’s the version that we’ll recommend the…

Chapter 16 – Overviews and Naming Channels UPDATED Information about this video: User Visibility: The third column of the Channel list – a list of checkboxes, one per channel –  was called Playback in the video. It is now called User Visbility. When a Channel is checked, it will be visible to the user, meaning…

Chapter 15 – Creating Views For Authors UPDATED Information about this video: Here’s a bit more detailed explanation of how to change fonts and colors, in Text panes (lyrics, annotations, etc.): Other new items: Reminder: We’ve added the option to Use Colors To Show Rhythm to Chart Panes (seen when you right-click in the pane).…

Chapter 14 – Assemble A Chart With Quantization UPDATED Information about this video: Ready for the next chapter? Click here to get to it!

Channel 13 – Adding Loops UPDATED Information about this video: Important new authoring information about Loops was covered in the previous video about Annotations, since the new Annotation features essentially give you a lot of meaningful Loops “for free” – almost no effort required. Ready for the next chapter? Click here to get to it!

Channel 12 – Adding Annotations UPDATED Information about this video: Background: Major new additional functionality: Finally – we want to stress that Annotations are the TuneLing author’s friend! They’re easy enough to make, and they give the user a lot of value: easily understood information about song structure, which is truly educational to learners, as…

Channel 11 – Synchronizing Instrument Channels UPDATED Information about this video: Ready for the next chapter? Click here to get to it!

Channel 10 – Creating A Chord Palette UPDATED Information about this video: Background information: After chords are assigned to points in a TuneLing, they can be modified. But any changes apply only to those individual chords – they are not carried back to any Palette, or the Database. This is because the Chord Manager’s Database,…

Channel 9 – Synchronizing Lyrics UPDATED Information about this video: The lyrics entry process has been improved, and is slightly different from how it is explained in the video for Chapter 6: Editing existing lyrics: It’s certainly easier, and worth the effort, to get lyrics right before importing them, but we now have (limited) ability…