Originally Posted By: jonel
Hi All,
I'm really grateful for the interest and comments on this topic. Before I started looking at this issue I was well aware of how the mid file may contain (or may not) the details of key and tempo etc. What prompted my initial post was that since the auto chord wizard can easily detect all the chords then it might have been possible to at least point to a likely key. The more I thought about it the more I realised that this was not really possible.

John

Hi Jonel

Yes that what I meant when I said although it cant tell if the note it detected is the 1st in the scale ( the tonic ) or the 3rd 5th or whatever scale interval. It just a note, E could be the tonic of the E or the third of C
Chord detection is easier because if you have C E G at the same time then it will be C which ever order they are in it be an inversion of C.

This is why any key sig info has to be written as meta data.

Mike


Last edited by Mike Head; 09/28/19 02:15 PM.
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