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 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

VERSION 2.3.1 (available 18th March 2021)

Improve pitch naming to allow only one pitch-class per scale.

Pentatonic scales can now use scale voicings in Section B.

Improve pentatonic scale navigation (recall last open panel).

Circle of Fifths can now preview chords on click.

Circle of Fifths can now switch between natural, sharp, and flat naming.

Prevent a crash when using the arpeggio on older macOS versions.

Prevent hung notes when using the Windows Audio Driver.

Prevent hung notes when performing melodies with the "Chord+Melody" profile.

Prevent a rare crash when reloading sessions with multiple instances of Scaler.

Improve stability on M1 systems.

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