Why does GMb5 appear in the Score Editor when it is entered by double-clicking with G dim in both the chord track and the score editor?
I don’t know, but if the chord spelling should match the notes on the staff there, it’s Gdim7, not just Gdim
No it is not the chord in the staff of course.
There could also be a rest or something else there.
Thank you anyway
Double-clicking on what?
on the chord in the sheet
I see - the chord symbol. Looks like a bug
It will spell Gdim7 properly if that would work in the context here.
It’s not. It’s how Dorico (and consequently Cubase) shows diminished chord symbol by default. The appearance can be configured in Dorico (Engraving Options), but not in Cubase, as far as I know.
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That’s a shame.
I had just recorded a video because I thought you’d misunderstood. But it’s kind of an answer to my question.
While I was recording, I noticed that clicking on a chord in the chord track doesn’t select the corresponding chord on the sheet music, and vice versa.
It’s as if they’re completely unrelated.
Well, whether one calls it a bug or not, it comes to the same thing. It is not the correct spelling in this case, nor a common spelling, and the user needs to be able to spell the chord properly.
I’m not sure where I’ve seen a diminished triad expressed as a minor flat 5.
As far as that goes, the default for dim triad in Cubase is dim and Cubase an internal system for chord spelling, which one can customize, so I wouldn’t say it’s a definite consequent
I’ll report the issue.
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“Consequently” for the Score Editor in Cubase 14+, which is based on Dorico and obviously uses Dorico’s defaults. Chord Track symbols are indeed quite configurable.
I’m sorry, I don’t follow your logic. I gues you can debate with someone what the correct spelling of a diminished triad chord symbol should be, but certainly in my decades of reading chord charts the simplest and most clear spelling for a diminished triad is Xdim
I agree, I just meant that Dorico has the wrong default and consequently, Cubase 14 and up also has the same wrong default inside its score editor as the devlopers probably just copied and pasted related code.
So an error in programming, the precise definition of “Bug”
Reported to Steinberg
That’s exactly the reason. For better or worse, it’s behaving as designed right now. We are actively working on improving that aspect though.
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This does mean that there’s no way to spell a chord eg., Cdim in the Score Editor, it looks like.
Is there a possible workaround (aside from using dim7 as I posted above)?
Probably there is no workaround at the moment, aside from that.
As was mentioned, it is really a missing feature where it is not possible to change chord appearance from the default, and not a bug.