User Manual
Lyrics Projection
Most options for lyrics projection such as the background color, image, gradient and font selections are made in the External Video Menu. However, system-wide settings can be made in the settings screen for lyrics projection.
Font
Choose the font to use for lyrics projection. The standard font is Verdana. Options include:
- Baskerville
- Courier
- Georgia
- Helvetica
- Verdana
Text Alignment
Lyrics are horizontally centered on the screen by default but can also be aligned:
- Left aligns the text to the left side of the screen.
- Center the text in the middle of the screen. Default.
- Right aligns the text to the right side of the screen.
Vertical Alignment
Lyrics are placed in the middle of the height of the screen but can also be positioned:
- Top positions the text at the top of the screen.
- Middle positions the text in the middle of the screen. Default.
- Bottom positions the text at the bottom of the screen.
Margins
Use this to control how close the text of lyrics can come to the edge of the screen. Options include:
- None places the lyrics right up to the edge of the screen.
- Hairline makes the margins 1% of the width of the screen.
- Thin makes the margins 2% of the width of the screen.
- Normal makes the margins 4% of the width of the screen. Default.
- Thick makes the margins 6% of the width of the screen.
- Thicker makes the margins 8% of the width of the screen.
- Thickest makes the margins 10% of the width of the screen.
Maximum Lines
Use this option to allow longer sections of lyrics to be automatically divided into subsections. The use case for this is if you want to place two lines of lyrics below a live video feed. If enabled, you tap on the section repeatedly to move through the subsections of lyrics.
Options include:
- None turns off subsections and displays the full text of the section. Default.
- 1-5 lets you select how many lines to display maximum. OnSong uses this value to optimize the number of lines to display. For instance if your section has five lines and you set this to two lines, the section will be divided into three subsections containing the first two, the next two and the last one lines.
Adjust Lyrics To Fit
This option prevents text from wrapping lines when projecting lyrics. This is enabled by default since it is assumed that lines and stanzas are designed to aid in phrasing of the melody. If turned off, the lyrics may be wrapped if the font size is set too large.
Remove Extraneous Hyphenation
Chord charts may contain characters for aligning chords above lyrics. This option removes extra hyphens in lyrics for better readability. Default is on.
Remove Extraneous Spaces
Chord charts may contain space characters for aligning chords above lyrics. This option removes extra spaces in lyrics for better readability. Default is on.
Display Footer
The footer contains the song title, artist, license and copyright information. You can change the position of the footer to:
- Off turns the footer off completely.
- Bottom places the footer at the bottom left of the screen. Default.
- Top places the footer at the top left of the screen.
Footer Size
This slider allows you to adjust the size of the footer in relation to the font size used for the lyrics. The default value is 1/3 of the size of the lyrics font.
Background Fill
Determines how background images or videos are scaled when they are not the same aspect ratio of the video device. Options include:
- Fit changes the size of the background image within the bounds of the video screen, maintaining the aspect ratio of the background but allowing for letterboxing to occur.
- Stretch stretches the background to fit the size of the video screen, allowing for the image to be stretched beyond it's original aspect ratio.
- Zoom Increases the size of the background while maintain it's aspect ratio to fill the external screen without letterboxing. Default.
Use Looper
Due to an issue in certain versions of iOS/iPadOS, the background looper may be disabled, resulting in a different method used to loop background videos.
Slide Behavior
These settings determine what should happen on the next action once you have navigated to the first or last section of a song.
- Stop will not change to any other section once the first or last section has been reached. Default.
- Goto Last/First Slide is used to cycle back to the top or bottom of the song once the other is reached. For instance, if you reach the last slide and then go to the next section, it will select the first section of the song.
- Goto Previous/Next Song is used to move to the previous or next song in the set.
