FR: Make horizontal shading on piano grid match the piano key color

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Hi: I find the display scheme makes it hard to visually line up a MIDI note on the right of the screen with the actual piano note on the far left.

For example, as can be seen, sometimes a white piano key will have:

  1. A light horizontal grid color running across the screen (like the “D” note at the bottom of the page, good),
  2. But sometimes it will have a dark grid color running across the screen (like the “C’” note near the top of the page, bad),
  3. And sometimes a white piano key will even straddle a light and a dark grid color running across the screen (like the “F” note near the top of the page, very bad!).

To make it worse, the same sort of thing occurs with black keys!

FR: Rewrite the display coding so the grid color (light vs dark) running across the screen always matches the piano color key (white vs. black) .

Thank you!

Edit: pic was originally posted by @valsolim here Quantize Pitches function doesn't work reliably - #5 by valsolim

Do you mean you want to get rid of the option “Show Scale Note Guides”?

Edit: No, that’s not what he meant. See other reply below.

Indeed. The guide is displaying the half-whole-diminished scale, not the white/black keys.

Another remark: Cubase tries to give every note the same amount of pixels vertically. However the keys on a keyboard do not have the same vertical size. That’s why Cubase displays the lines in the editor a bit misalligned compared to the keys on the keyboard.
To fix this I imagine one would have to have different vertical heights also in the editor. This might be “uneasy” on the eye.