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 2 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 2 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, modes and chord sets
Choose from hundreds of keys and modes, quickly build progressions in the sequencer
Play melodic expressions, phrases, performances, sequences, basslines, melodies and rhythms written by professional musicians across various time signatures
Establish your musical key and scale with audio detection as well as MIDI detection
Create unique chords by searching & selecting from the circle of fifths or by entering note by note on your keyboard in Chord Create / Editor mode
Chord Charts displays a guitar chord diagram for any chord and Fretboard Views allows you to explore the neck of your guitar
Suggest Mode helps you add complexity and artistry to your chord progressions
Discover chord substitutions that lend variety to your progressions and browse chord variations to get suspended, extended, dominant sevenths and jazz chords
Experiment with Voice Grouping to spread notes across the keyboard and keep your chords within a certain range for voice leading
Keys Lock helps you create emotive melodies by locking keys to your chords
Modulation suggestions give you new ways to reach musical destinations
Export MIDI to your DAW simply by dragging and dropping
MIDI Capture lets you perform inside Scaler 2 and then export the results as MIDI
Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler 2 to control your favourite synths or use over 45 internal electronic, acoustic and orchestral sounds
Play and record one-finger chords and melodies using Scaler 2’s Bind MIDI function
Generate bass lines adapted to your current scale and chords with Bass Mode
Generate melody lines adapted to your current scale and chords with Melody Mode and Sequence Mode
Change keys, performances, melodies and basslines on the fly by MIDI Mapping to your computer keyboard or MIDI Controller
Get more natural-sounding melodies and expressions with the humanise and quantise function
Navigate between modes and pages using keyboard commands or UI buttons
Edit Modes for adjusting length, velocity, inversion, octave, timing and performances more per chord in a pattern
Pad View helps you to arrange and play through multiple patterns and key switch between them
Audition new progressions in context with DAW Sync playback and Auto Play
Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real-time and synced to your DAW
Chord editing and moving tools include lasso, drag n drop, replace and insert
New Chord Create / Editor mode – create chords by searching & selecting from the circle of fifths or by entering note by note on your keyboard
