mgustavo Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 (edited) Hi, I've been having an issue when inserting chords on Staff View, which is I always have to click on Group options and select Guitar to access chords library. This happens because the default option is an empty space (actually, the Guitar library won't show until I click on Group drop down list). I tried to reproduce the issue on Music Maker 6 and it worked fine, but on CbB, as well as Sonar Home Studio 2015 and Sonar Professional it's buggy as described above. Not a big issue but a bit annoying when there are many chords on the song. : ( Has anyone seen this before or maybe there is a workaround? Thanks in advance! Edited May 29, 2021 by mgustavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Do you mean chord diagrams above the staff of chord notes in the staff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgustavo Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 57Gregy, yes! It is the chord diagrams above the staff. That has been happening on Sonar since 2017 if I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 While in the Staff view, I click on the Chord tool and it will display a white bar above the staff. Click in that white bar and it will show C for the chord C. Make sure the staff view layout has 'Show Chord Grid ' (or something like that) enabled. Right-click on the C and the chord library should pop up. Navigate to the chord you want where you clicked in the C. Click OK. That selected chord should be displayed where the C was. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgustavo Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 (edited) 57Gregy, thanks for your response! The procedure you described is working fine on my DAW, but it happens that Guitar library isn't the default option when Chord Properties dialog box opens. When I try this feature on Music Creator 6 it works as expected, but on Sonar and CbB the default option for chord libraries is an empty space, so I have to click on Group and choose Guitar, which is the only one available. If only CbB could remember my last choice it would be great, but that not happens! Every time I insert or edit a chord I have to choose Guitar on Group list. : ( Edited November 4, 2020 by mgustavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 What happens if you rename chords.liw in %appdata%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core copy the chords.liw from %appdata%\Cakewalk\Music Creator 6 into %appdata%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core There is a copy of this file in each user directory. There is a separate user directory for CbB and every Cakewalk DAW installed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgustavo Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 Hi, scook! Thanks for the reply! I tried to copy MC6 library to CbB directory but that didn't help. I also did some tests and tried to create another library, and it seems CbB uses CHORDS.CWC so save data. Actually I tried this a few years ago, and maybe that could be the cause of this issue! Thanks anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 IDK, the process works for me like @57Gregy describes Once the C chord is added, clicking on it opens the Properties dialog and defaults the Group to Guitar. I do not have any .cwc files in the user directory. It has been a long time since I messed with creating new entries. There are two .liw files created for CbB chordnew.liw chords.liw If they are not there I believe holding SHIFT while opening CbB will create new copies from the master set in ProgramData. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 18 hours ago, mgustavo said: I have to click on Group and choose Guitar, which is the only one available. Is see. The only options I have are Guitar and Matrix DATA Track. Don't know what that is, but selecting it does nothing and it reverts back to Guitar when re-opening. I think your library must have burned down. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgustavo Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 Lol, at least that didn't happen! But that's weird, this Matrix Data Track also appears on Group list. I thought I did something wrong when I was trying to save new chords and libraries, and MDT could be there in result of that. I also sent an e-mail to CbB support about this issue. If they find out anything I can post it here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgustavo Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) Hi, I’d like to say that I’ve found out the issue’s problem with chord library groups on CbB! The problem seems to be with the local language, which is Brazilian Portuguese (I switched to English language and the feature behaved as expected)! I've been in touch with a Cakewalk support worker which had asked me to do a screen recording about the issue. That helped me on doing more tests. I hope it will be addressed to future updates! Best regards, Edited November 13, 2020 by mgustavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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