I have been using a freeware program called MidiX to embed the lyrics in
MIDI files.

Rich Beil

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:11 PM, hwalt713 <hwalt713@...> wrote:

> For those of us using a flat-bed scanner and PhotoShop to scan/edit
> piano rolls, here is an idea I'm exploring: What about using the same
> encoding as the old teletype systems, i.e. the ITA2 5-bit format? It
> includes the upper case alphabet, numbers, and a few punctuations, but I
> think that's all we need for song lyrics.
>
> An example is shown on my google web site:
>
> http://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/hgwalters
>
> along with a few MIDI files I've scanned using the PhotoShop method.
>
> A small program written in GWBasic converts the text to the bit-patterns,
> which are then manually placed on the image; not difficult if you use a 1/9"
> by 1/9" grid overlay with PhotoShop.
>
> I'm using the spaces above the 88th note (#90-94); and Warren Trachtman's
> "RollScanConverter" program captures these notes as D 7 to F#7 without any
> apparent problems.
>
> A MIDI File Disassembler program such as the one by Jeff Glatt ("MidiDsm")
> would make it fairly easy to convert the "notes" to lyrics using another
> GWBasic program, working on the text version of the MIDI file.
>
> Has anyone else used this approach?
>
> Hank Walters
> Cottage Grove, OR
>
>
>


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