Scaler 2 is a groundbreaking music theory workstation designed to inspire and enhance your creative process. Whether you’re a seasoned producer or just starting, Scaler 2 offers a suite of powerful tools to help you discover new ideas, expressions, and melodies.
Key Features and Benefits
Identify and Explore Keys and Scales:
Scaler 2 can detect the key and scale of your music from both MIDI and audio inputs. It suggests chords that fit your music, making it easier to explore alternative scales, modes, and chord sets.
Build Progressions with Ease:
Choose from hundreds of keys and modes. Quickly create chord progressions in the sequencer and discover perfect melodies using performance expressions.
Play Professional Melodies:
Access melodic expressions, phrases, sequences, basslines, and rhythms crafted by professional musicians across various time signatures.
Advanced Detection and Creation:
Establish your musical key and scale with robust audio and MIDI detection. Use the Chord Create / Editor mode to craft unique chords note by note or search and select from the circle of fifths.
Guitar Chord and Fretboard Views:
The Chord Charts display guitar chord diagrams, and the Fretboard Views allow you to explore the guitar neck for a more comprehensive understanding.
Enhance Chord Progressions:
The Suggest Mode adds complexity and artistry to your progressions. Discover chord substitutions and browse chord variations, including suspended, extended, dominant sevenths, and jazz chords.
Voice Grouping and Keys Lock:
Use Voice Grouping to spread notes across the keyboard and maintain chords within a specific range. Keys Lock helps you create emotive melodies by locking keys to your chords.
Modulation and MIDI Integration:
Receive modulation suggestions for new musical destinations. Export MIDI to your DAW by dragging and dropping. Perform inside Scaler 2 and export results as MIDI using MIDI Capture.
Control Your Instruments:
Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler 2 to control your favorite synths or use over 45 internal electronic, acoustic, and orchestral sounds. Play and record one-finger chords and melodies with the Bind MIDI function.
Generate Adapted Lines:
Use Bass Mode to generate bass lines and Melody Mode and Sequence Mode to create melody lines adapted to your current scale and chords.
Real-Time Performance:
Change keys, performances, melodies, and basslines on the fly by MIDI Mapping to your computer keyboard or MIDI Controller. Achieve natural-sounding melodies with humanize and quantize functions.
Efficient Workflow:
Navigate modes and pages using keyboard commands or UI buttons. Edit chords by adjusting length, velocity, inversion, octave, timing, and performances.
Pattern Arrangement:
Pad View helps you arrange and play through multiple patterns, key switch between them, and audition new progressions in context with DAW Sync playback and Auto Play.
Real-Time Arpeggio and Strum:
Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real-time, synced to your DAW.
Advanced Editing Tools:
Edit and move chords with lasso, drag and drop, replace, and insert tools. The new Chord Create / Editor mode allows for precise chord creation by searching & selecting from the circle of fifths or entering notes manually.
Scaler 2 is your ultimate music theory companion, making the process of finding chords and progressions intuitive and fun. Whether you’re looking to enhance your compositions or simply explore new musical territories, Scaler 2 is the comprehensive toolbox you need to make better music.
