Change MIDI without auto renaming chord

[Korken]

Hello, I am new to EZkeys. I began with it just this week. I have being experimenting different things to get used to it and to define my workflow after my composing preferences.

I write an own chord chart and then find a groove that fits to the rhythm I am after and this groove gets adapted to my own chords and rhythm. So far so good. But then I want to add or modify some notes in the groove to fit my own arrangement idea. This works too, but the chords start to get modified. I know EZk recognizes some tensions in the arrangement, but I don’t want my chords getting modified. For example, an A/E is playing, then I add an F# in the groove, melodic wise, and EZk changes the A/E to A6/E. And in other parts where I added or modified more notes the chord change is even more drastic, for example the A/E turns to F#m9. I don’t want those chord changes, even when they could be harmonically correct, it destroys my song structure. How can I avoid it? I mean many arrangements have a lot of melodic notes. If each of those notes would mean the chords need to be redefined we could end with monster names, aside from the fact I don’t need another name for my chord. If I need to play some notes that are not part of the notated chord, I want to be able to play them without renaming the chord.

In the manual I can find

Chord Correction

This option opens the Chord Correction tool which lets you change Chord Notation to other chord estimations without altering the MIDI.

But I want it the other way around: I change the MIDI myself but don’t want my chords being automatically altered.

Thank you!

EZkeys version: 2.1.3
Operating system: Windows 10

• This post was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by Korken.

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[jazzmandan]

I think I understand your problem and I have my workaround.  I think you need to use multiple tracks to do what you are suggesting.  Remember you have any number of “other” tracks you can be working on in any one arrangement in EZK2.  Once you have the baseline chords (named as you like) lock that track and then copy the entire track to a second track where you are free to edit and revise the midi in any manner you choose, all within EZK2.  Otherwise, you need to work more in your DAW where you can split out midi to adjust with melodic content as you wish.

[Korken]

Right, thank you. That could be a workaround and I will try it. It would be good though, if one could activate an option to avoid the chord change. For example, if in a bar in my song I have a Cmaj7 chord with subdominant function and I just play E-A-F# I don’t want that EZk changes the C to an F#m7 chord. I want my Cmaj7, even if I don’t write the tensions.

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