If you know the notes and want to enter them using an external keyboard, BIAB already has this. It’s in the Windows menu, MIDI Chord Detection.

And BIAB has a shortcut key, h, for a minor seven flat five chord. Type Bh

And the Chord Builder can show you the correct way to enter a chord in BIAB. VideoTrack showed this above. As you have discovered, there is not complete standardization of chord notation and you just need to learn and adapt to how each program does it. It’s not that any individual music program is right or wrong; it’s just the reality of the situation.

To everyone else, the OP is correct in his understanding and he asked a perfectly reasonable question.


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