First, I’m a piano-noob so there might be a simple explanation to this, bare with me 🙂
I was using EZ-keys as a tool to learn common chords on a piano.
Starting with a C-major, to me that should be CEG, but if I add a C-chord in EzKeys it’s GCE. Well’ same chord in a way. But if Google around, GCE is the 2:nd inversion of C-major. Same goes for all chord defaults in EzKeys. Ref: https://www.pianochord.org/c-major.html#hide1
Noticed I can change this by clicking the chord and set inversion to 1, which will give med CEG.
But shouldn’t the default inversion (0) be the C-major, and inversion 2 be inversion 2? A bit confusing to me.
So to get C-major I have to set inversion “1” in EzKeys, and inversion “2” is “0”?!
Please, enlighten me!
The inversion number in EZkeys is relative and can go to negative numbers as well. If you record a CEG chord (or any other other inversion of it), it will be marked as a C with inversion 0.
Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder
Sorry if I don’t understand this. I still think the default inversion should be CEG when I add a C-chord in EzKeys.
Please observe, this happens only when I use the button “Add chord to song track” in the GUI.
When I click play after that I can see the keyboard pressing GCE + a base C two octaves lower, which is not inversion 0.
In EZkeys, inversion 0 just means the original inversion.
For some reason, it was decided that the Add Chord button should (in C major) add a block with the notes GCE + base C. Since that is the starting point (the original), the inversion number in the chord properties is 0.
Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder
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