Plugin Boutique : Scaler 2 (Win, Mac)

Empower the Composer Within

Scaler 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 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.

Scaler 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 and chord sets
• Choose from hundreds of keys, 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 200 genre and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Cinematic, EDM, Progressive…
• Browse chord variations to get suspended chords, extended chords, dominant sevenths and jazz chords
• 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 to control your favourite synths
• Play and record one-finger chords and melodies using Scaler’s Bind MIDI function

New for 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 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 

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