5.9. MY SONGS

MY SONGS MENU

MY SONGS part is very useful because it allows performance to present on the screen all necessary to the smooth running of files. It can contain any kind of file: Styles, Registrations, MIDI sequences, karaoke etc..

This framework contains 12 labels or 11 banks over a navigation arrow for exceeding the number of banks.
Each bank contains the files shown in the left column, which itself can contain multiple pages like the VOICE column (see 5.8)
Right click on a category button MY SONGS (UNPLUGGED, POP, DANCE, BALLAD ...), open Windows Explorer directly pointed at this issue. Nothing is easier to add or modify files. Once the changes are complete, it is recommended that you click 'Refresh' to refresh the display.
Files can be:

The label changes color only when the file is read natively by vA2
It is possible to automatically display lyrics (*. Txt) and especially the score of the piece to play. You just have to show that the file is in a subdirectory "son" of the SONGS folder that named "SCORE" and it bears the same name.
The display PDF files requires downloading and installing a Plug In available for free here: http://www.varranger.fr/vforum/index.php/topic, 802.0.html
In the case of use with a second screen, the partition will automatically appear on the latter which can be positioned in portrait example for comfort and readability mode. The score is displayed and scalable and can be epositioned at will.
According to its position in the score, the mouse pointer may take various forms:

The left column shows the first 10 "SONGS" in the selected bank. By clicking with the right button on a SONG (a style, or any other file in theleft column), a new menu appears with four users choice:

MOVE TO ...: Allows you to move to another folder SONG => select the destination folder from the list or enter a new folder name

COPY TO ...: Allows you to copy a file to another SONG => select the destination folder from the list or enter a new folder name

DELETE ...: Deletes a SONG (the files go to the recycle bin)

RENAME ...: Rename a SONG (enter a new name for this song)

These features will bring up a new window with a list of ALL files reports with the SONG.
For example, a ROCK.PAT style, there would also be displayed ROCK.PAT2 that contains the information recorded by SAVE SONG, but also rock.jpg, ROCK1.JPG, ROCK2.JPG, ROCK.RTF which are partitions and / or words of this song in the SCORE directory.
So if you delete, rename or move a SONG, all files related to this SONG (by default they are all selected) will be deleted, renamed or moved automatically at once.
This will greatly facilitate the organization of your directory.

LOAD

This function allows you to load a vArranger compatible file, usually for files not present in the MY SONGS bar
vArranger can load the following file formats:

STYLES :
KETRON STYLES : PAT
YAMAHA STYLES : STY, BCS, PRS, FPS, SST, PST, PCS, SCP
ROLAND STYLES : STL
KORG STYLES : STY
TECHNICS STYLES : CMP, CST

TEXT : TXT Text, RTF Rich Text Format.

IMAGE : JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, TIFF.

AUDIO : WAV, MP3, MP3+CDG, WMA, OGG, AIFF, FLAC.

MIDIFILES : MID, MIDI, KAR

INS : Cakewalk Sonar Instrument Definition File .

PDF : (Requires the free vArranger PDF Plugin )

BIAB : MGx, SGx song chords from Band In a Box files

SAVE

The SAVE functions saves the settings made previously, a menu will appear with the following saving options :

STARTUP CONFIG : This function allows you to find the same set of settings each time you start the program. This screen summarizes the settings saved in the default configuration for the next starts.

Note : AUTOSTART MIDIFILE & MP3 allows to play music directly with the selection of a song, without having to press START.

SONG : The SAVE SONG feature (also known as registration) saves all the modifications settings made previously on a song (the mixer, the instruments,...), a screen will appear to let you select several items to save:

SONG NAME - The name given to this song ("BAION" in the example).

FOLDER - The song destination folder. (MY SONGS in the example).

Note : Recording format FOLDER: 2 Numbers in parentheses immediately following the name of the folder (here REGISTRATION) is used to classify banks MY SONGS, the first 4 characters (brackets + 2 digits) are invisible in vA2 and are only used by the software to classify files (FOLDER) in an order chosen by default and can be modified by the user. For the name of a folder vA2 displays the first 18 characters on 2 lines maximum.

The user checks the backup options according to their needs or all together with SAVE ALL.
With box 12 ASSIGNS CONTROLLERS checked, assigned to "hardware" controllers as a foot control, a MIDI pedal or any other button (QWERTY keyboard or keyboard MASTER) a joystick etc.. Settings are stored for the SONG in progress . This function allows, if necessary, customize the use of external auditors for each song.

THE "MY SONGS" FOLDER

This feature allows the background, for example to create or delete rename folders in the working directory vA2 without leaving the software.
By clicking on the label vA2 displays the Windows file manager, prepositioned in the working directory named default: StylesROM1 (ref. 2). This directory is a subfolder of the directory vArranger (ref. 1) created under the root of the hard disk of the computer during the installation vA2

The working directory vA2 (StyleROM1) defaults to 10 sub-folders whose names begin with two numbers in parentheses as (04) SWING. The figures, invisible in vA2 Represent the fourth position in the bar MY SONGS, which allows a personalized classification of genres simply by changing the first two numbers while retaining brackets.

The number of sub folders is not limited by vA2
In the example in the figure above, the file DANCE (ref. 3) contains a sub-folder in which you can place text, partitions or other files found useful.

When this subfolder is called SCORE (ref. 4) and contains files with the same name as the SONG (ref. 5), eg THIS IS MY LIFE is a partition then it will automatically display the call the SONG. THIS IS MY LIFE.

Another example can be seen that "hell" is two pages in jpg format.

REFRESH

This function allows you to refresh the data stored on the computer and used by vA2 without needing to restart the software. This function is very useful when the user changes in the background with MY SONGS FOLDER or with another task, the data working directory vA2.

SEARCH

This function is very useful when searching for such a lunch kar SONG or on computer disk file.

By clicking on this window, the lens becomes green and the cursor moves ready characters to search. As and when the user hits the letters (and / or numbers) vA2 shows the occurrences already found the magnifying glass turns red during the search and turns green at the end of the process. At this point, double-click the desired title (grayed) the load in drive A. The search engine is very fast, the steps may not be well received.
Pressing the assigned to the search function search function (SEARCH) button activates. A second press cancels the current search.

LYRICS

LYRICS The function displays in a new window the information contained on the track LYRICS MIDI or KAR files or user-defined.
The popup window is floating and resizable.
Ability to disable the automatic display of partitions SCORE file by right clicking on the Lyrics button, then uncheck DISPLAY SCORE OF THE SONGS
Ability to disable the automatic display of the words of midi files, by right clicking on the Lyrics button, then uncheck DISPLAY OF THE LYRICS midi LYRICS The button turns red when this function is active.

KARAOKE

KARAOKE function displays in a new window the information contained on the track KARAOKE MIDI or KAR or user-defined files. The popup window is floating and resizable. Also, it is possible to record the start position of the Karaoke window by right-clicking on the window and Karaoke: SAVE WINDOW POSITION KARAOKE button turns red when this function is active. Ability to disable the automatic display of karaokemidi, by right clicking on the button Karaoke then uncheck DISPLAY OF THE KARAOKE midi

See Also

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