Plan

Plan is the symbolic description of the intended vocal. It records what is written before rendered timing and pitch are evaluated: notes, lyrics, pronunciation, slurs, articulations, dynamics, and voice assignment.

Figure 1. Plan mode presents the authored score and its current phoneme plan.

Screen index

Component	Meaning
Voice rail	Selects the vocal part being edited and shows its assigned cast.
Piano roll	Places written pitch vertically and musical time horizontally.
Note	Carries pitch, position, duration, lyric ownership, and note-level expression.
Phone row	Shows the pronunciation currently planned for the notes.
Inspector	Presents editable properties for the current note or selection.
Plan tools	Select, draw, erase, split, or connect authored note material.

Notes and voices

Each voice occupies one MIDI channel. Notes in the same voice cannot overlap. When another voice is selected in the voice rail, the piano roll and Inspector refer to that voice.

The note rectangle shows written pitch and duration. Its lyric slot identifies the syllable associated with the note. A lyricless continuation note may belong to the same syllable when it forms part of a slur.

Pronunciation and slurs

The language selected on each voice card determines which enabled language package derives its phoneme plan from the lyrics and note relationships. A manual phoneme override replaces that planned pronunciation for the affected material. Per-note language selection is not currently supported.

A slur marks one syllable continuing across successive notes. The first note owns the lyric; continuation notes extend the sung material. A slur is not a tie: the connected notes retain their separate written pitches.

Operations

Condition	Action	Result	User consequence
The voice requires another note.	Draw a note in empty piano-roll space.	A note is added at the selected pitch and duration.	The next bake includes the new musical event.
Selected notes require text.	Fill lyrics from the selected starting note.	Tokens are assigned to successive lyric slots.	Pronunciation is replanned for the affected notes.
One syllable must continue across notes.	Apply a slur to the contiguous selection.	The notes become one melismatic chain.	Pronunciation and pitch transitions may change on the next bake.
The planned pronunciation is unsuitable.	Enter a phoneme override.	The manual phone sequence replaces the automatic plan.	Later lyric replanning does not replace that override until it is returned to Auto.

Continue with Timing after the notes, lyrics, and pronunciation are stable.