Scaler Music have updated and price dropped the desktop version of Scaler, now only £79.00, (usually $99.00).
What’s new in version 3.3:
- Multi-Bind lets different tracks be bound to keyboard regions simultaneously.
- Motions can be dragged between tracks, auditioned using the current track’s sound.
- Upgraded Detection workflow, and detection now responds to internal Scaler keyboard.
- Detection Results saved in Detection History and new ‘Detect’ ChordSet category.
- Horizontal Resize lets you see more of the timeline at once.
- User Motion is now “User Track”, and can be created from the Motion Browser.
- Timeline is now visible across Browse, Create and Arrange tabs, the playhead can be dragged and its position synchronizes across all three pages.
- Scenes can be multiselected with Shift-click.
- Right-click to Insert at Playhead Position & Replace at Playhead Position.
- Chords are replaced with new ones of equal length.
- Voice Grouping retains the chord root for inversions and slash chords, extract workflow improved.
- Settings, Presets and Sessions now work more smoothly and effectively
- Many Other updates, improvements and fixes
Features include:
- 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 What’s New In Version 3.3 video HERE.
Scaler 3 is available to PC, Mac and iPadOS users (VST3, AU, AAX, standalone and AUv3).
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