Plugin Boutique have just released Scaler 3 by Scaler Music. Now available at the intro price of $70.00, increasing to $99.00 after the promotion. You can upgrade from Scaler 1 or Scaler 2 to Scaler 3 at the intro price of $29.00, increasing to $39.00 after the promotion. The offers end April 30th.
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.
I am personally off to take a deep dive into the Gamechangiest plugin since the last version. And yeah, I am the one who coined the oft used annoying word gamechangier on ABF years ago.lol
Sorry @KingMidas but the term gamechanger(ier | iest) should be banned everywhere, forever.
With that out of the way, I did upgrade this morning. I have not had a chance to dig in too much but there are 2 issues I immediately have. Minor annoyances, but should be noted. I hope everyone likes grey on dark grey because the theming and font preferences are gone. Also, there is no longer a preference of where you would like your files stored.
Full standalone VST/AU host
All new arrangement modes with Piano Roll and midi editing
Between S3 and DN2/DT2 update 1.10 I may be looking at a legal seperation/divorce due to neglect in the coming days. Only 24 hours in a day and I deserve to be happy
FWIW, I don’t disagree about that term being banned . I wasn’t disappointed that the OG thread on ABF was murdered and the body was never found.
I also think there should be a light mode for Scaler. Bummer about file management but I’m sure the guys at Scaler will be issuing hella updates in the coming weeks. They don’t play about Scaler and listening to the community.
I imagine CME’s Xkey will be having another moment. I’m dusting mine off as Siri dictates this post.
Low latency Bluetooth x Full size keys with AT looking sexier now that I can one key trigger infinite chord progressions, melodies, etc in Scaler. My new Launchkey MK4 is looking nervous over there.
I always wanted to like Scaler, but the UI ultimately felt too convoluted and I never put it to good use. It looks like they rethought a lot of the UI for v3; I hope it clicks with me this time. Unifying the various object types from v2 as “motions” looks like a promising start.
Is this a bit easier to get working in Ableton Live than the last one? I know it didn’t take forever to set up, but needing to use more than one track to be able to do anything was a bit annoying.
I didn’t love the old UI either at first glance but It grew on me. Especially after using it so much on iPad. The audio detect and section C is where I spent most of my time. The new version has lots of goodies that I think I’ll get tons of miles with.
Wow. Didint see that. If true that is really really nasty work for a product like this. However it’s definitely something they’ll add as it’s a no brainer that folks will want to control their HW without running it in a DAW.
