Change sharps to flats?

[Tyrannocaster]

I'm working on a project that is in Cm and the midi display insists on showing everything with names that use sharps. Can I change this to flats? That is, change D# to Eb like it should be? Sharps are fine if you're playing in a sharp key like A or whatever, but this sucks in a flat key.

[planetnine]

Originally Posted by Tyrannocaster

I'm working on a project that is in Cm and the midi display insists on showing everything with names that use sharps. Can I change this to flats? That is, change D# to Eb like it should be? Sharps are fine if you're playing in a sharp key like A or whatever, but this sucks in a flat key.

As in chnge the way the midi editor displays the note so the note reads right -it is the same note and plays the same MIDI note number.


>

[karbomusic]

Originally Posted by planetnine

As in chnge the way the midi editor displays the note so the note reads right

>

Yes.

[Tyrannocaster]

Hey, thanks! That is better, although not great. It requires you to do more than you should (IMO) and the resulting display is a little odd, with the key names on the left (the keys in the display) doubled on all of the Cs (no ide why this would be, but all the Cs show two names now, like "C3 C4"). The notes now show the correct flat names but for some reason they still show the sharps too, making for a cluttered view.

Also, since Reaper uses a different editor for each separate midi section, I have to load a ton of these, which is a pain in the butt. I don't want to glue all of the midi events together, which would solve that problem but create far worse ones.

I'm glad you made this available but in my opinion you should not have had to do it; Reaper should be able to deal with flats without kludges like this.

[James HE]

Reatune suffers the same problem.

[DarkStar]

Originally Posted by Tyrannocaster

Hey, thanks! That is better, although not great. It requires you to do more than you should (IMO) and the resulting display is a little odd, with the key names on the left (the keys in the display) doubled on all of the Cs (no idea why this would be, but all the Cs show two names now, like "C3 C4"). The notes now show the correct flat names but for some reason they still show the sharps too, making for a cluttered view.

Also, since Reaper uses a different editor for each separate midi section, I have to load a ton of these, which is a pain in the butt. I don't want to glue all of the midi events together, which would solve that problem but create far worse ones.

I'm glad you made this available but in my opinion you should not have had to do it; Reaper should be able to deal with flats without kludges like this.

Yep - go and vote.

As for the need to load them multiple times:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=28305
and
http://forum.cockos.com/project.php?issueid=1404

The Cs are doubled as Reaper always display the octave name in the Piano Roll. Switch to "Hide unused / unnamed notes). The Octave difference (C3 C4) is because those names are for a MIDI Octave Offset of -1. That can be set in Preferences >> Media >> MIDI.

The note names files are text files so they can be edited in Notepad or in the piano roll itself (double right-click then Tab / Shift+TAb to the next / previous one).

[gofer]

re: the doubled C names

Couldn't you just leave the notes for all C unnamed and they won't double up?

[DarkStar]

Flashback:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=18425
http://forum.cockos.com/project.php?issueid=1447

and
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=91963

[IMG]http://img847.**************/img847/8789/r411dsscales01.png[/IMG]

You'll find a .zip file there that should help.