Ability to display both sharps & flats in key editor

Stephen57 · September 8, 2015, 1:00am

raino:

Stephen57:

The fact that Cubase doesn’t display notes in Flats nor provide Root Notes in Flat keys, especially missed in the Key Editor, is disappointing to me, a new Cubase user. A professional music creation application based on MIDI technology should display, at least, all the standard keys in sharps and flats, including all Major Keys and their Relative Minor keys. I should be able to easily modulate from, say, B Flat Major to D Major and the program would know the notes B Flat and E Flat are now naturals and F and C are now sharp and they should be displayed as such in All editors. To me this is just basic music, elementary stuff and we shouldn’t even have to discuss it. It should just be patched with the next update. ,

While the Key Editor has this problem, the Score Editor manages sharps, flats & keys properly - which makes the situation even more curious. And the Chord Track is a mixed bag, no flat keys but sometimes it shows flat chords (and sometimes it don’t, who knows why).

I’ve not worked with the Score Editor as yet, but I did notice it has provisions for dealing with Sharps and Flats for display and printing and, yes, I’ve seen the Chord Editor display F#7 and Gb7 and it seems to be related to the surrounding chords. I have to get more involved with how Cubase deals with diatonic harmony and its interesting-looking set of scales and even microtuning and so on. I know there’s lots of good things it will do and I look forward to getting there.

All that said, I think we all agree that we need sharps and flats in the key editor and wherever else in the program that would would apply, vari-audio, etc.

Take care.