REQ: Plugin Boutique Scaler 2.4 Win

Empower the Composer Within
Scaler 2 is an inspirational and powerful music theory workstation that gives you access to a world of new ideas, expressions and melodies. With powerful detection of MIDI and audio, Scaler 2 can determine what key and scale you’re in and suggest chords that match your music. The plugin helps you discover the perfect melody with performance expressions, and can even suggest ways to change from one key to another.

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Scaler 2 makes finding chords and progressions intuitive and fun! It’s a comprehensive but easy to use toolbox that will help anyone make better music.

Benefits

Discover your music’s key and explore alternative scales, modes and chord sets
Choose from hundreds of keys and modes, quickly build progressions in the sequencer
Over 200 artist chord sets from the likes of Carl Cox, MJ Cole, The Temper Trap, Mitekiss, CeCe Rogers and Mike Huckaby
Over 300 unique genre, common and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Cinematic, EDM, Metal…
Browse chord variations to get suspended chords, extended chords, dominant sevenths and jazz chords
Create unique chords by searching & selecting from the circle of fifths or by entering note by note on your keyboard in Chord Create / Editor mode
Play melodic expressions with over 200 phrases, performances and rhythms by professional musicians across various time signatures
Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real-time and synced to your DAW
Discover chord substitutions that lend variety to your progressions
Experiment with different chord voicings to spread notes across the keyboard
Export MIDI to your DAW simply by dragging and dropping
Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler 2 to control your favourite synths or use over 30 internal electronic, acoustic and orchestral sounds
Play and record one-finger chords and melodies using Scaler 2’s Bind MIDI function
Establish your scale with audio detection as well as MIDI detection
Generate bass lines adapted to your current scale and chords with Bass Mode
Generate melody lines adapted to your current scale and chords with Melody Mode and Sequence Mode
Change keys, performances, melodies and basslines on the fly by MIDI Mapping to your computer keyboard or MIDI Controller
Get more natural-sounding melodies and expressions with the humanise and quantise function
Navigate between modes and pages using keyboard commands or UI buttons
What's new in version 2?

Redesigned from the ground up with over 200 new chord sets, hundreds of new scales, and 30 new instruments
Play melodic expressions with over 200 phrases, performances and rhythms by professional musicians
Establish your scale with audio detection as well as MIDI detection
Keys Lock helps you create emotive melodies by locking keys to your chords
MIDI Capture lets you perform inside Scaler 2 and then export the results as MIDI
Modulation suggestions give you new ways to reach musical destinations
Get more natural-sounding melodies and expressions with the humanise function
Edit Mode for adjusting length, inversion, octave and more per chord in a pattern
Pad View helps you to arrange multiple patterns and key switch between them
Audition new progressions in context with DAW Sync playback
Voice Grouping can keep your chords within a certain range for voice leading
Chord editing and moving tools include lasso, drag n drop, replace and insert
More than 100 new expressions in triplet feel and across several time signatures including 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 12/8
New Chord Create / Editor mode - create chords by searching & selecting from the circle of fifths or by entering note by note on your keyboard
Control individual notes and velocities in each chord
How it Works
Detect

Scaler 2 can listen to incoming MIDI or audio data and detect the key your music is in. After this, it will suggest chords and chord progressions that will fit with your song. Scaler 2 can send MIDI to a virtual instrument in your DAW, and it has 30 onboard instruments to play with as well.

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Chord Sets

Scaler 2 comes with over 200 song and genre-based chord sets and over 200 artist chord sets to inspire new progressions and melodies; plus, choose from hundreds of scales and modes to get your creative juices flowing. Simply drag the chords you want into the sequencer to build a pattern that’s unique to you.

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Explore

Explore alternative chords that’ll fit with your progression, with loads of voicings, chord extensions and variations on particular chords to help you choose the perfect feeling with every step of your song.

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MIDI Capture

New Audio Detection Technology means you can detect and analyse chords and scales from existing audio sources. With MIDI Capture, you can record Scaler 2’s output – whether you’re clicking keys or chords, or playing progressions – in order to drag the resulting MIDI to outside the plugin.

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Keys Lock

Lock keys to your chords to create complex melodies by intuitively moving around on your MIDI controller. Humanize Scaler 2’s performance by introducing variations to velocity and/or timing. Voice Grouping lets you automatically invert notes to restrict playback within certain octaves or by using open voicing.

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Edit

Edit Mode lets you dial in Duration, Octave, Inversion and more parameters per chord, and there are new ways to edit chords when right-clicking. DAW Sync links your chord patterns to your DAW’s playback, making it easy to audition new progressions or alter existing chord patterns alongside your DAW project. Pad View makes it easy to construct entire arrangements, moving chords and whole progressions on a higher level.

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Modulation

Scaler 2 makes Modulation Suggestions for movement between your current key and a destination. The majority of suggestions have been sourced from professional musicians, and some are generated algorithmically.

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Performance

With Performances, Phrases and Rhythms created by real pianists and musicians, Scaler 2 isn’t just about creating chords and arpeggios – it can lay down melodies as well. Over 200 Expressions let you experiment with riffs and melodies, which can be locked to notes of your scale or a chord.

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What's new in version 2.4.0?

Content

New “Common Progressions” Chord Sets
New Performances, Bass & Sequences
New genre Chord Sets: EDM & Metal
2 new Pluck Sounds
Modulation

Progression - Add “Maintain Voicing” option to adapt the suggested chords to your progression’s voicing.
Neo-Riemannian - Add “Minimise Movement” option.
Mediants - Add “Group Voicing” option to prevent jumps in the octave between distant chords.
Commands

Add new mappable commands to control Scaler with MIDI CC or keyboard shortcut.
Bind

Add the ability to bind chords to “All” keys instead of “Only White” keys.
Add the ability to start the “Bind” area from any note of the keyboard.
Add the ability to switch between OCT/ST steps when defining the “Bind” area from the side menu.
Add new binding mode “True Scale” to map chords on notes belonging to the selected scale.