EZKeys inversion 0 is in fact inversion 2?

[Anders Hansen]

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!

EZkeys version: 1.3.2
Operating system: Windows 10

• The post has been modified 3 times, last modified 4 years ago by Anders Hansen.

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[Olof Hermansson]

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.

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[Anders Hansen]

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.

[Olof Hermansson]

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
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