On Thu, 18 Sep 2025, Stephan Schöll wrote: > I'm investigating whether I can produce vocal rehearsal tracks with > Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro by importing MIDI files which I rendered with > Lilypond based on the score.
Not exactly the issue you're asking about, but I recently had to help someone who was trying to get music with lyrics from Sibelius into Synthesizer V, and what became a significant issue was the splitting of words into syllables. In sheet music, when a word is split across multiple notes (typically with one syllable per note), you often want each syllable to be written with its corresponding note. There are other conventions possible, as discussed in the Lilypond manual. But Synthesizer V expects the *entire* word on the *first* note, and then a plus sign "+" on each subsequent note of the word, which it interprets as "sing the next syllable of the word"; and that's certainly not what most vocalists expect to read in the sheet music. Splitting the syllables in sheet music style causes Synthesizer V to try to interpret the spelling of each syllable as a word in itself, often getting the wrong pronunciation. If you don't want your sheet music to be engraved with the whole-word-and-then-plus encoding, then you have to make a separate set of lyrics just for generating the MIDI, or else you have to do extensive human editing of the syllable breakdowns in Synthesizer V after you import the MIDI file. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
