How do I get the Chord Track to display chords correctly for the key signature?
The image below shows the chord track. The key is B Major, but the chord track is showing both sharps and flats, which is not correct. How do I do/fix this in Cubase?
Click the Enharmonic button with the chord selected.
What version Cubase are you using?
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Thanks.
That’s weird. I had already tried this and it did nothing.
I logged in to the forum, saw this reply and then tried it again and it still did nothing.
I had then closed the project and exited Cubase as I was doing something else.
A while later, I was back and re-opened the project and just thought I’d try it again, not expecting anything different, and then it worked. What is going on!!???
I’m on the latest version of Cubase 11 Pro.
I’ve had times where I’ve changed something but don’t see the change and it turned out to be the graphics not being immediately repainted. If it happens again try minimizing and then maximizing the Window to force it to repaint the graphics.
So no one ever actually replied with how to find EnHarmonic here.
The full path is -
Edit > Preferences > Event Display > Chords&Pitch > Enharmonics from ChordTrack
Mind you this does not work for me. I have this preference checked and still show a mismatch of illogical flats and sharps and i am in Cubase 15.
I would suggest always post full path to do something as things are very hard to find
in cubase.
But any ideas how to fix this?
Was fighting with this 2 days ago & eventually just gave up.
Seems to me the proper solution is that Note, Chord & Scale Events should all have a field on the info line that lets you set it to sharps or flats.
The problem with that is it’s a per event setting so if you have multiple chords with that issue, you have to go to each one and change that. Also it disrespects rules of music theory. The Chord Track is a feature old enough for Steinberg to know that you don’t put sharp chords on flat signatures and vice-versa, especially since that might lead to wrong engraving on the score editor.
It doesn’t work because the pref relates to note spelling in the Key Editor, not chord symbols on the chord track.
Also I would note here that the scale labels are not very meaningful, and do not influence chord spelling – though they can be filtered in the PLE. As concerns chord spellings I believe only chord symbols are interpreted by the algorithm.
Right I got it now, its enharmonic in the status line. You have to click on each individual chord and then override auto to change its sharp to flat etc. Very handy and perfect btu in one song i had to change 87 chords because it labelled the key F# put in a few G#m9’s etc and had all the rest in flats. But its really great that you can do it.
Can’t you select all chord events and then hold the Ctrl key while changing the Ino Line?
Q-Link is a bit busted outside of MixConsole and doesn’t reliably work. Something to do with the order of the mod keys or the moment you activate them. Sometimes it works, sometimes you think it worked and then discover the worst way only a single event was changed even when you have multiple selected.
Do you understand that this has nothing to do with Q-Link?
Holding the ctrl key while clicking on a value is a standard modifier, that by default sets all selected items to the same value. Different from Q-Link
Indeed you are quite correct. I coudl have git them all under cntrl and changed them all at once. silly me, indeed it works. lol
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If “multi-parameter editing” is not Q-Link, then what is Q-Link?
Q-link is where multiple Channels in the MixConsole are linked so that changing a Channel Setting, for example Mute Enable, will change that Setting for all the linked Channels.
Q-Link works on items that can be found in the MixConsole.
The Info Line works only on objects in the timeline (events, parts).