In the chord pad world I’m trying to insert onto a pad a Bmaj chord with a b5 - That’s B (Tonic) - D# (Major 3rd) - F. natural (b5) (That’s not a #11 which the chord pad wants to name it) it’s simply a Bmaj chord with a flat 5th. The chord only contains 3 notes, the chord pad is adding a #11 and the 9th to the chord.
If I play the triad into the midi input of the pad the result is the correct chord and triggers accurately until I insert another chord on a different pad into the sequence then the Bb5 chord automatically takes a life of it’s own and becomes a straight B chord i.e. the normal perfect 5th.
Unfortunately I was unable to get your suggestion off the ground, it could be operator error on my part, but defining the chord in the Preferences > Event Display > Chords & Pitches didn’t work.
However the way to make this work is to record the chord - B with a b5 into the pad, then utilise the Lock Chord Assignment button on the chord pad toolbar. Then trigger the chord from the pad and record it in realtime into Cubase, if you simply drop the chord symbol (which is actually displayed wrongly) onto the chord track directly from the pad it resorts to a Bb major chord and not the chord that’s played into the pad.
I don’t know but the Cubase chord detection and definition doesn’t seem to draw from a very wide vocabulary perhaps a knock on the door of the Scoring Team at Dorico may help.