Hello, I bought a MIDI file for playing on my (music) keyboard. When I play the MIDI there, I see in the LCD display the chords inside the MIDI. Such as depicted in the image below (attached). Here we see two chord events (Eb and Bb7). This track renders the chords on my keyboar but I don’t know how to create a midi track like this.
I opened the MIDI file in Cubase and found one track where I opened the list editor. In there I see “chord events with parameter Eb or Bb7”. I try to create such a track with only “chord event” types inside. But I can’t succeed. Anyone knows how to do that ?
Such as depicted in the image above (attached). Here we see two chord events (Eb and Bb7). This track renders the chords on my keyboard but I don’t know how to create a midi track like this in Cubase.
The displayed events are metadata, in addition to the standard MIDI note data. On the one hand (“Lyrics“), they are song lyrics, and on the other hand (“Chord Event”), they are chord information. Both are for display purposes for the reader, but Cubase does not reproduce the displayed chords as note values.
However, there is a Chord Track in Cubase, which has replay functionality. You can use the chord track for adding chord and scale events to your project. These can transform the pitches of other events.
I tried that. I’ve also a piano track inside the midi. I selected it and generated the chord track. I exported again as MIDI (as type 1 and type0). When I import the midi again, I see in the list editor only note types (no chord event types). And on my keyboard, the song is played but without chord indication. I think it is for me useful to look for another DAW.
I think Cubase does not support chord events in a standard midi file. It can display them in the list editor if they exist in the file.
I don’t think that you can actually do anything else with them in Cubase, though.
The chord events that Cubase offer on its chord track, don’t seem to be connected to midi file chord events at all.
