EZ Keys changes chords after import from EZKeys standalone

[Steve McNamara]

I created an 8-bar chord progression in the standalone version and then exported it as MIDI. When I opened my DAW and then imported the MIDI file, most of he chords had changed.

The progression is in A major. The original progression comes first, with the changes in parentheses:

C#add9/A# (A#m7) — I realize the new chord is the relative minor, but it sound different because different notes selected.

C#m add9/B (C#m/B)

Dadd9/G (Gno3) (G is not even in the key of A major, so why this occurred I can’t understand; plus the chord sounds different)

Dadd9/A

A

A6 (A6/F#)

Emaj7 (E add9)

F#sus4–>F# over 1 measure (listed as just F# for the entire measure, but the change fromt he sus4 to standard chord works fine).

This was repeatable. Perhaps tighter integration between the standalone version and the DAW version is appropriate.

Thanks,

Steve

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[Scott Eshleman]

can you upload your exported MIDI?

what DAW is hosting the plugin?

[Henrik Ekblom]

Analysing chords is quite a complex operation for software, and sometimes the result differs from what the user wants to see. One of the reasons is that a set of notes can be seen as several chords – depending on the circumstances.
With that said – you can save your MIDI song blocks in the Favorites folder in the Browser. This will keep the blocks with the same chords shown, so the next time you load the MIDI song blocks – they will look the same.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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