SUS chords

[martin]

:rolleyes: When entering a sus chord from a midi keyboard (ex CFG) hoping to see and hear CSus4 on the staff I get CminMaj7 instead.

[Sherry C]

Hi Martin,

Yeah, chord naming can be tricky, because depending on the context of the surrounding music (eg. the key signature, and how the music is "moving"), the chord name can be different for the same three (or more) note chord :)

Composer does a "best guess" based on that paradigm. However, it's not perfect (we seem to always be tweaking it) :) Fortunately, you can override the "not so best guess" that it makes simply by double-clicking the chord name and typing in what you want. Composer will honor that edit, and keep it "musical" in the score (eg. if you decide to change the key of the piece, that edited chord name will also change as will any others that are entered/recorded/edited).

ttfn,
Sherry

[martin]

Thanks for that. I understand you will have problems narrowing down notes to a specific chord but I wonder if I may I ask you to try this: start a brand new song in composer without any notes and place a chord (from a midi keyboard) using the notes (C F G). My program inserts CminMaj7. There is no context here to interpret this chord other than Csus4. There is no hint of Cminor. I think this is a bug rather than the program choosing a chord from a number of possibilities.

[Sherry C]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the nice clear steps and resulting chord name - I've added your post to the "chord name tweaking" task for the next release of the software.

Thanks!
Sherry

[martin]

There is another strange chord bug I notice. C Eb Ab gets interpreted correctly as Ab/C. But add the C an octave below to these three notes and it suddenly becomes Eb6/C which cant be right because an Eb chord has a G natural. The chord name should not change at all by adding the C an octave below surely.

[Sherry C]

Hi Martin,

Also duly noted on the task - thanks so much for the very specific "repro" (steps to reproduce the problem).

Merry Christmas!
Sherry