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Lyrics editor

How to manage song lyrics?

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Every note needs some lyrics, otherwise the player would have no idea how to sing it.

The lyrics of the song can be managed in the lyrics editor which is located above the main editor on the right.

To be able to edit anything in the lyrics editor you must activate it. Inactive editor has gray backroung, active - white. To activate the editor just click somewhere on it or press F2 key.

In the lyrics editor you have a list of numbered lines (or phrases) for the active track. If your song has multiple tracks each track has its own lyrics. You can see track lyrics only when it is active.

During gameplay Ultrastar will display the lines of lyrics one by one.

Navigating in the lyrics editor

You can treat the lyrics editor a bit like any other text editor - move around with arrow keys, move the cursor via clicking or select parts of texts using mouse or shift + arrows. You can also copy and paste parts of text and enter/exit overwrite mode by pressing insert key.

The main differences between lyrics editor and any other text editor is that:

  • hyphens and spaces have special meaning,

  • there is a relationship between the lyrics and the actual notes.

This relationship has several important implications, which are explained in the next articles.

In lyrics editor you only edit the way lyrics are arranged over existing notes.

No action taken in lyrics editor can edit the actual notes, e.g. if you remove some part of lyrics, you will do just that - no note will get removed

Text style

Note type
Style

Normal

no style

Golden

bolded

Freestyle

italics

Rap

no style

Golden rap

bolded

Keen observers have probably already noticed that some chunks of the example lyrics are bolded. The style of the text corresponds to the .

note's type