How It Works

What this library covers

These guides describe realyrics as it actually behaves right now: the buttons that exist, what each one does when you press it, and what it deliberately leaves alone. They are written against the shipped editor rather than a roadmap, and they are updated when the behaviour changes, not when the marketing does.

The articles fall into two groups. The syllable grid guide covers writing itself — how a line is laid across a beat grid, where the stress marks come from, and how to drag a word onto a different beat when the automatic placement is not what you meant. The rest cover the rhyme panel: how the Proximity score is arrived at, what the refinement pass against the corpus changes, and how the part-of-speech and stress filters in the Unigrams header cut a long list down to the words you can actually use.

Stress is the thread running through all of them. In Russian and Ukrainian the stressed syllable is not fixed by position, so two words that rhyme on paper can refuse to sit on the same beat. Most of what realyrics does is make that visible before you have sung the line.

Each article is written about one specific control, so read whichever matches the part of the screen you are looking at — there is no need to start at the top. The list above is ordered for a first read rather than by date, so working down it in order is a reasonable way to meet the editor for the first time.

The rest of the site

The guides here describe the editor. These pages show what comes out of it, and what the team writes about the craft itself.

• The realyrics blog — craft notes on lyrics, rhythm and flow
• Published lyrics — finished songs their authors chose to make public
• Authors — the songwriters publishing on realyrics

This library in other languages: Русский Українська