Plugin Boutique have price dropped Scaler 3 by Scaler Music, currently available a £58.56 / $79.00, (usually £73.39 / $99.00). The offer ends July 28th.
What’s new in version 3.1:
- Live Sync – Load multiple instances of Scaler 3 in your DAW project, and they can share the contents of the Main Track row of chords. A change in one is a change in all, as your third-party plugins on different tracks stay in sync while you’re trying out ideas or committing to changes.
- Custom VST Paths – When performing a plugin scan or rescan, you can specify a custom path for Scaler to scan your plugins. You can have multiple plugin folders. This is especially useful for Windows users, where plugin locations are less standardised.
- Chord Panel Display – By popular demand, this fan favourite from Scaler 2 is now in Scaler 3. The Chord Panel Display is the readout that tells you what incoming notes or chords are being played into the plugin. This feature is now safe and sound inside Scaler since version 3.0.1.
- Bass Follow – This new motion will automatically track the lowest note of each chord as your project plays. You can use MIDI modifiers to change the Length and Octave of these notes, and Inversion to change the note Bass Follow plays. It’s even possible to use multiple instances as a ‘divisi’ split voicing setup.
- Tutorial – An overlay is now available to explain how Scaler works. It will pop up on your first use. The tutorial can be dismissed, and brought back from the About menu (Scaler logo). There are 37 steps, so even regular users may learn a few new tricks with this refresher.
- Snap to Any Position – Scaler 3.1 improves the way larger projects are handled. Those working on soundtracks, who don’t necessarily start their work at Bar 1, will benefit from this update.
Described by some as a “desert Island must-have”, Scaler 3 has had a complete redesign, Scaler 3 takes everything that made Scaler 2 the world’s favourite music theory plugin and builds on it in ways you’d never imagined. Scaler 3 will make it easier to take new directions, solve musical puzzles, and improve your works-in-progress in completely new ways.
The long-awaited successor to the multi-award-winning Scaler 2 is almost here!
The new interface is organized into three main pages: Browse, Create, and Arrange, making it easier to browse chord sets, find scales, create progressions, and manage.
Scaler 3 introduces innovative features like the Explore and Colors pages, which suggest compatible chord progressions and provide a comprehensive view of chord voicings, respectively, fostering creative exploration.
With multi-track functionality, a timeline-based Arrange page with dedicated lanes for different instruments, and extensive note editing capabilities, Scaler 3 offers unparalleled control and flexibility in music composition.
Features include (but not limited to):
- VST/AU Plugin Hosting – With plugin hosting, Scaler 3 has rewritten the rulebook. Load your go-to instruments and effects from third-party developers, create patches and tweak effects, all from within Scaler. MIDI routing is now an optional workflow choice, not a required step. It’s a boundary-pushing creative environment that seamlessly blends harmonic songwriting, with creative sound design.
- Multitrack – Write and arrange multitrack compositions from the new Multi-Lane timeline, just like a DAW. Layer basslines, arpeggios, rhythmic parts and more using phrases from Scaler 3’s expansive Motion browser, then fine-tune them with the feature-rich MIDI editor. Every element in your timeline stays locked to your main chord progression, so your layers work perfectly every time.
- Explore Page – The brand-new Explore page offers an entirely new way to write inspiring new chord progressions. The intuitive radial layout makes it easy to explore chords in your chosen key, or interesting, complementary chords outside it. If you’re feeling adventurous, the Dynamic Scale feature makes it easy to modulate between keys, even if you’re a music theory beginner.A Revamped UI
- Built around three core pages – Browse, Create and Arrange – the reimagined interface inspires an intuitive and efficient workflow while remaining immediately familiar to fans of Scaler 1 and 2.
- Go DAW-less With Standalone – In addition to VST, VST3, AU, and AAX formats, Scaler 3 is now available as a standalone application. Thanks to its new plugin hosting capabilities, and Multi-Track timeline, you can use Scaler 3 as a fully self-contained composition and music production environment – for the first time ever.
- More Chord Sets to Discover – Scaler 3 is awash with inspiring chord sets to suit your mood or genre – or choose a chord progression made by an artist. You can also search through scales, add Favourites and select Common Progressions or Uncommon Progressions.
- MIDI Editing – Once you’ve chosen a performance pattern, it appears in a piano roll as editable MIDI data. From here, you can modify this MIDI in two ways: edit individual notes in the piano roll to override the pattern, or change global note properties like Inversion, Density and Range.
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