Notes F-A-C-E is shown as FMaj7 in the various chord lists I have seen. However, attached notation fragment shows these notes (at beginning of bars 1 and 3) interpreted as F6.
Can someone please advise if chord interpretations are not as fixed as I thought, or if is there a ‘bug’ in the program?
how did BIAB arrive at the F6 chord? Did the program interpret chords from a multi track midi or by auto chord recognition of audio tracks and the notation you show apply to one instrument only?
Confirmed here. Best I can tell that is just not right. And is not typical behavior. The chords feature which writes the F6 midi for the specified track should not have writted F,A,C,E. I watch this pretty close and it is generally spot on. In this case if you enter Fmaj7 you also get F,A,C,E. Which would be correct.
I noticed this on my last song. A number of chords were wrong but I thought it was something I did wrong. I just looped a 4 bar song consisting of a FMaj7 chord on beat one of every measure. Then choose a number of styles at random, both MIDI and RTs, then checked each part in notation. I got Fm, F6, Fmaj7, and Fmaj9 but I wouldn't complain about the FMaj9. I also got one track playing FMaj7 while another track playing F6 in some cases. Something is not right about BiaB 2924 and IIRC it just started with the latest update as I don't remember getting the wrong chords prior to that.
PS - the main chord problem I had in my last song was the F6 chord had a FMaj7 on one track and a F6 on another track. Also this happened on both of my computers, thus it is not my system.
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I am afraid we are confusing two things here. Typical for us. The image Allan posted showed he was dealing with the notation from the "Chord Track". This is a special BIAB track (no, they are all not the same) which generates the block midi data for the exact chords which are entered in the chord chart. I confirmed this was not working correctly since the F6 was entered in the chart and an Fmaj7 appeared in the notation. There is no way this was happening a version or two ago.
I've just tested this with Natural Arrangements on and off and sixth chords are consistently written as maj 7th chords. It seems to be independent of both key settings and the entered chord.
I've just made a post about this in pre-release testing so that the programmers are aware of this inconsistency. I've included a link to this thread so that the team can read about it.
Many thanks to those who have contributed - hopefully programmers can resolve the matter.
Although a bit irrelevant now, I realise my first sentence was potentially ambiguous: 'Notes F-A-C-E is shown as FMaj7 in the various chord lists I have seen.' I meant by this charts published on online sites showing the notes that make up chords.
Allanmorrow, I don’t see any ambiguity. You spelled the chord correctly, with the notes starting at the root and going up. That is indeed an FMaj7 chord.
The MIDI standard does not contain chord names (Music XML does) so a MIDI file imported into a program has to be interpreted if a chord symbol is shown.
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