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[Vendimion]

@Vendimion

@GrahamInChezzy

This is a daft workaround for something that, in a computer programme, should have been dealt with a long time ago, and the developers should be ashamed. The algorithms that deal with the display of sharps and flats in all the key signatures have been known and understood for well over three hundred years. The originator of this thread should place an entry in the Feature Requests forum and I for one will +1 it.

Graham

Totally! I’ll do it! I count on your support and anybody that cares about that.

Done

Key signature & Accidentals in midi editor

[powernemo]

@KHS

With the 12 note chromatic scale they are the same pitch and refereed to as the exact same note. You only have 12 notes and if they are not to be the same you would have 17 notes in the scale and it would no longer be the 12 note chromatic scale.

You can argue that playing an E is still the same note, doesn’t matter you have to stop your finger with a 3mm difference, it’s still an E no matter what.
Cannot argue how you normally would tune a violin as I have no clue. But for the modern western music you are using the 12 note chromatic scale and thus those sharp/flat notes are the same.

I would suggestion you to read a bit about scales and intervals to understand how music notation works. A# and B♭ sound the same and indeed overlap on the same pitch but in the context of intervals they have different meaning, and ppl that studied music knows this well and expects to see the correct note in the MIDI editor.
Did you ever asked yourself why they even exist?
Take for example the Cmajor scale → C D E F G A B do you see the intervals (2-2-1-2-2-2-1 semitones)
now let’s consider Fmajor, standing to what you say we can write it → F G A A# C D E F but do you see the problem?
There is A followed by an A#, but the 4th interval of an F is some kind of “B” note not an “A” note. Moreover writing it on the pentagram would be a bit problematic cause you need to write A♮ to cancel the effect of the A#.
For this reason you write that as B♭ and being a musician you want to see B♭ as 4th note of the scale and not an A#.