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I have been creating quite a couple of new songs, and tried to improve things, that were bothering me, whilst doing so.

Hyphenation

Obviously, this was already there, but the algorithm sometimes did not do a very good job in my opinion. For a lot of folks, the current workflow when creating new songs includes the Ultrastar Creator as a first step to tap in the lyrics and as a finishing step Yass, to finetune notes. If you are not already using Ultrastar Creator (in the latest version), I highly recommend downloading it. It includes dictionary files that help hyphenate words.
In the previous version, splitting a word (e. g. by hitting the "-" Minus key) that had multiple syllables would still result in a split where the whole word would be the first note, and a tilde the second. Now, the hyphenator will do it's best, to split the word in syllables, and put the first one in the first note, and the remaining syllables into the second note. Furthermore, if the word to split has multiple syllables, the length of the first note would be relative to the amount of syllables, e. g. if a word has three syllables and the note is 9 units long, then splitting the word would result in a 3 unit long note for the first syllable, and the remaining two were in a 6 unit long note. If you have defined in the settings, that notes should not be touching, then the first syllable would be 2 unites long, and the next note would start leaving a 1 unit long break.
Also, if you feel like the hyphenation did not meet your expectation, because the word was split lexixcally, rather than how it is sung (e. g. "hy-phen-ate" vs "hy-phe-nate"), you can hit "CTRL-H" to try to rehyphenate the word again

TL/DR

  1. Install Ultrastar Creator for improved hyphenation (= splitting of words/notes into syllables)
  2. Note-splitting tries to consider whole word length and sets the length of the split notes accordingly
  3. New feature "Re-hyphenation": Mark the syllables to be rehyphenated and hit CTRL-H. Yass will toggle between "brea-king" and "break-ing". Also works on "breaking - ", which changes it to "brea - king" and then to "brea - king"

Recalculate BPM

Added the possibility to recalculate all notes based on a new BPM:

  1. Open a song
  2. Open "Lyrics Gap & Beats"
  3. Enter a new BPM into the "Beats" field. Instead of hitting "ENTER", which will simply set a new BPM, click the "Recalculate BPM" icon (looks like a "Refresh" button with two circular arrows, and the start times of all existing notes will be recalculated based on the new BPM

Improved Copy-Pasting

This is still a bit wonky, but selecting and copying multiple notes and then pasting them over existing notes is easier now. Very useful, e. g. when you have finished the chorus of a song, then you can simply copy the chorus and paste it over the second chorus using CTRL-SHIFT-V

Installation

  • Use the installer, if you are on Windows and haven't installed Yass yet
  • If you have already installed Yass, you can simply replace the yass.exe file in your installation folder
  • Use the JAR, if on Mac or Linux
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