How do I preform lyrics with DAT?

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Hello TD community. I would like to perform lyrics for songs live using touchdesigner on top of other audioreactive visuals. Esentially i need a DAT that will output a string of text as a lyric but if i send it a signal, with a keyboard chop for example, it will switch to the next line. I can then use that as a specification DAT for a text TOP

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I’d probably use a select dat and count chop for this. You’d put every line into a new row in your table and select one of them using the select dat, set to select row by index mode. Then use a count chop on your keyboard input to count the amount of times the button was pressed and map this to the select row index.

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Also, I recommend using textCOMP. Everything will look nice when scaled that way

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thanks that is actually smart

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will try to

Also how do i use word wraping cause the text isnt big enough but if i scale it up some phrases get out of fram and i wish to wwrap the text but i cannopt find how to enable it in the DAT

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On the textCOMP, you have to change the Type parameter to Multi-Line and then you will get Word Wrap parameter enabled below.

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well wordwarp is enabled but it definitely still goes of screen. I did use the font size to increase letter size and maybe that’s the reason, is there any other way to increase letter size? I have the widht and height set to 1920 and 1080 and it goes off screen,

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Not sure what could be going on. Can you post a toe or tox file please? Or send to ivan@derivative.ca