Scaler Music have released Scaler 3 for iPadOS, (previously desktop only), available at the intro price of $14.99, increasing to $19.99 after the promotion. The offer ends March 31st.
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.
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
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