Lyrics Baseline moving Question

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Elwin_Raffins
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Post by Elwin_Raffins » Sun Apr 08, 2018 3:18 am

Is there a way to move the bass line of multiple verses at once? Every time I want to shift lyrics downward, I always have to edit the baseline of all verses individually, which can get hard at times. Is there a way to move all verses down at once?


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zuill
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Post by zuill » Sun Apr 08, 2018 5:24 am

Do it by the numbers in the Adjust Baselines dialogue box.

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Post by Elwin_Raffins » Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:47 am

zuill wrote:Do it by the numbers in the Adjust Baselines dialogue box.

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I am aware that's what you do, but that method means you changing the numbers individually. I am asking if there is a way to do it all at once.

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Post by zuill » Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:50 am

I believe that is not possible. At least you have this option for lyrics. For chord symbols, it needs to be done manually by dragging.

We've been asking for a global reset option for many, many years. It hasn't happened yet.

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Post by motet » Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:53 am

I'm a Lyrics novice, but had to do this recently, and was surprised one had to do them indivudually, but it wasn't so bad to just subtract the same value from the various offsets.

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Post by christopherjhoh » Wed Feb 19, 2020 6:46 pm

It's still needed -- some global reset options for the dialogue box so you don't have to cycle through all the systems and all the types (verse, chorus, section), or am I missing something?

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Post by HaraldS » Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:49 pm

Use Chris' Reinitialization of baselines plugin (you need JWLua for that). Works like a charm. See on Jan's site #17, or register directly on the french forum where Chris' scripts can be downloaded.
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