LYRICIST - The Songwriter's Best Friend V3.01.01
Win95, Win98, Win2000, WinME, WinNT, WinXP

Lyricist is the ultimate songwriting tool - a first-of-its-kind word processor designed for lyricists, 
musicians, songwriters, and poets.  The software includes a rhyming dictionary, spell checker, 
thesaurus, album categorization, chord charting, chord generator, song arrangement, transposition, 
and much much more - all in a user-friendly package.  

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Features Set Includes:

Chord Charting & Editing:  The single most user-requested feature is finally here! Lyricist comes 
complete with 4,080 different guitar chord symbols, representing a total of 450 plus chords with 
multiple voicings. Insert chords into your lyrics with only a few mouse clicks! Of course, there are 
more possible chord variations than any software program could ever contain, so Lyricist also lets 
you edit your own chord symbols. If your fingers can play it, Lyricist can display it. Check out the 
screenshots on this page for a closer look at this exciting new feature.  Of course, there are more 
possible chord variations than any software program could ever contain, so Lyricist also lets you edit 
your own chord symbols.  If your fingers can play it, Lyricist can display it. 

Chord Wizard:  Most guitar players, at one time or another, have stumbled across a great-sounding chord 
while writing or practicing and not known what it was.  Plug the finger positions into Lyricist's new 
Chord Wizard and let it identify the chord for you!  Chord Wizard also provides a list of alternate 
chords you could create by simply changing a note or two.  Once you've identified your chord, you can
insert it directly into your song.

Song Transposition: Lyricist's Transposition feature allows you to quickly and easily transpose your 
songs between musical keys and back and forth between Piano and Guitar style chord charts. It even 
lets you transpose into the Nashville Number System! 

Nashville Number System: Lyricist's Nashville Number System support enables you to quickly convert your 
chord charts and arrangements from any standard key into the Nashville Number format making it easy for 
players to transcribe the song into any key - on the fly! 

Four different Lyricist Views: Version one featured a single window so you could edit your lyrics. 
Lyricist 3.0 now features four different ways to view your work! Lyrics View is the basic editing 
window. Chord View lets you add guitar chord symbols to your lyrics. Arrange View lets you view your 
chord progressions without the lyrics. And the Nashville View lets you see your song in the Nashville 
Number System format. 

Programmable text styles:  If you normally show your title in blue 12-pt Verdana text, your verses in 
black 10-pt Arial, and your choruses in italics, you don't want to have to set each of those parameters 
every time you write a song.  With Lyricist's text styles, all you need to do is select your Title text 
and click the Title Style button...and bam!  You've got the text style you want.  Lyricist includes 
Style buttons for Title, Copyright, Chorus, Verse, Bridge, and two user-defined Styles. 

Web link buttons:  The Lyricist editing windows now include two new web link buttons.  The Links button 
takes you to our VSS links page, which directs you to websites about all aspects of music.  The OLGA 
button takes you to the On-Line Guitar Archive, a repository of guitar tablature from a variety of 
artists and genres. 

Database-oriented storage:  Most word processing applications store your work as a series of individual 
document files.  These can be difficult to manage and organize.  Lyricist stores your songs in a 
centralized database, making for easier management and backup. 

Database storage also means "on the fly" saves!  This means that every time you click a button, switch 
songs, pretty much anything apart from individual keystrokes, your work is automatically saved.  You 
rarely ever have to hit the Save button (we gave you one anyway just for good measure).  

Album categorization:  Lyricist organizes your songs into Albums for easier reference.  You  can even 
open an entire album at once with only a few mouse clicks! 

Spell checker:  No need to embarrass yourself bringing those typo-ridden lyric sheets to rehearsal.  
Let Lyricist's spell-checker give it a once-over first. 

Thesaurus:  Already used the word "beautiful" eight times in this song?  There's gotta be another word 
for it...let Lyricist's built-in Thesaurus clue you in.  Remember...your vocabulary is only as limited 
as your resources.  A smart person knows a lot of words...a genius knows where to look them up! 

Rhyming dictionary: There are few tools more valuable to the lyric writer, so we included one with over 
11,000 of the most commonly used rhymes, including slang! It's current methodology is quite unique in 
that it doesn't bog you down with hundreds of thousands of rhymes, instead, it synergizes with the 
rhyming dictionary already in your head. Although, Lyricist does pack a few extended rhymes in its 
dictionary, the majority of it's word associations are perfect rhymes. This is not a weekness in the 
rhymer becuase it was designed to work with your creative process by jogging the best words from your 
mind for your songs. In fact it is fun and easy to process extended or near rhymes in your head using 
Lyricist: For example, if you wanted to rhyme the word "time," you would go to Lyricist and gets lots 
of perfect rhymes: Lime; slime, climb, dime, etc., but, if you didn't find what you was looking for, 
you could process one near rhyme for "time" in your head, for instance, the word "pie." Then, you could 
search the Lyricist rhymer for the word "pie" and get cry, defy, die, drive-by, and 50 + other near 
rhymes. Lyricist synergizes with the rhyming dictionary in your head, and since your head is connected 
to your heart, it's cool because that is where great songs are written. 

RTF file export:  Save any song as an RTF (Rich-Text) file for viewing and editing in a number of word 
processing programs such as MS-Word. 

Email your songs:  Lyricist will even attach your song (as an RTF file) to an email so you can swap 
songs with your friends!  (Requires an email application) 

Media file launch:  Do you have an MP3, WAV, MIDI, or RA file of the song you're working on?   Maybe
a rough mix or a scratch track?  Or maybe you have a scanned file of the song's copyright form, or a 
spreadsheet of recording expenses, or any other file that relates to your song.   Link the file to the 
song and you can launch the file with one click!  Lyricist opens the file using your computer's default 
program for that file type.  No need to switch to Explorer or your Desktop to find that file and then 
go through the process of opening it.  Just click and go!

Online File Copyright: Lyricist's Online File Copyright feature takes you to the website of Official
Software, where you can can register the copyright for your Songs online. There you can copyright your 
songs online or complete step-by-step online forms. As a Lyricist user you receive up to 20% off any 
Official online or software product to protect your music, lyrics, CDs, and other original works.

System Requirements :

-Win95, Win98, Win2000, WinME, WinNT, WinXP, with MS-Paint installed 
-32 MB RAM 
-486/33 or Higher IBM Compatible 
-12 MB Available Hard Disk Space 
-VGA Monitor 

The download is a 30-day full-featured trial version of Lyricist.  Once you have decided that Lyricist 
is right for you, you can purchase Lyricist on-line via the registration option available in the 
program for $49.95.

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