Incorrect Note Names For Scales in Key Editor

[Johnny_Montenegro]

The vertical keyboard on the left does not display flats ever as far as I know. (Option Pitch Visibility = On)

On some scales/chords some notes are just “undefined” and will usually be displayed as sharp. Try F major to see what I mean. You’ll have some notes sharp, some notes flat. That doesn’t make too much sense musically.

Additionally we still can only chose sharps from these kind of menus…

This one is for selecting the key of a scale event and if I want it to be Ab I have to select G# and then manually do an enharmonic shift. Cumbersome.

Totally reminds of an old topic of mine.

Enharmonic shift in Key Editor without scale event

I know about this option. Having it activated is the only way to have the key editor display flats if one happens to work in such a scale. That is why I have it turned on. Martin’s suggestion means that I constantly have to switch the option on/off depending on whether I write in a flat or a sharp scale. Talking about a professional program… Even if you give Cubase all the clues like on below’s example the sclae event reads D#, the piano keys in the editor have sharps instead of flats and if I…

It’s a classic Steinberg thing: We have some great stuff in there but it is only 80-90% done. The rest? The user just has to live with it.
Or better: person A developed the first part, person B the second part some time later. Both parts are individual pieces of code that do not perfectly fit together. Just “almost, kind of”.