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Scaler is a unique and inspirational MIDI effect that makes finding chords and progressions intuitive and fun! With note detection, scale selection and chord suggestions, Scaler is a comprehensive but easy-to-use toolbox that will help anyone make better music.

A first of its kind, Scaler can determine what key and scale you’re in and suggest chords that match your music, or it can inspire a tune from scratch by providing a set of initial chords in an unexplored key. With the onboard bank of 1,728 scales and modes including genre and artist presets, there’s more than enough to keep the juices flowing.

Once you’ve determined a scale, Scaler lays out basic diatonic chords for you to audition, and lets you take things further with dozens of chord variations and voicings to try out. Theory buffs can also get an insight into each chord’s harmonic function.

Ready to put together a progression? Simply drag and drop chords into Scaler’s sequencer, change up octaves and inversions, and record or drag the progression into your DAW.

Benefits

Discover your music’s key and explore alternative scales and chord sets
Choose from hundreds of keys, and get the harmonic flavours of pro artists
Easily audition chords and find alternative voicings and common substitutions
Quickly build intelligent progressions by dragging chords into Scaler’s chord sequencer
Drag chords and progressions from anywhere in the plugin out to your DAW

Detect

Discover your track’s current scale with MIDI keyboard or piano roll note detection
Get an insight into the emotional content of matching scales
12 keys across 12 scales and modes giving you a total of 144 options to choose from
12 unique voicing types giving you a potential 1,728 Scales and modes
Over 50 artist chord sets from the likes of Carl Cox, MJ Cole, CeCe Rogers and Mike Huckaby
Over 50 genre and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Soundtrack, EDM…
Check how closely a given scale matches your detected input

Keyboard

Keep an eye on notes and chords going through Scaler with real-time visual feedback
Visualise the chosen scale as highlighted notes on Scaler’s piano keyboard
Audition chords from your chosen scale with a choice of four sounds
Play and record one-finger chords using Scaler’s Bind MIDI function
Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler to control your favourite synths

Explore

See the basic diatonic chords that can be built from your chosen scale
Browse Chord Variations for each note to get suspended chords, extended chords, dominant sevenths and jazz chords
Quickly get a sense of each chord’s harmonic function in progressions
Discover chord substitutions that lend variety to your progressions
Experiment with different chord voicings to spread notes across the keyboard
Mix and match from hundreds of artist and genre-based chord sets

Build

Drag and drop chords from your palette into Scaler’s Progression Builder
Transpose and invert chords for even more voicing styles
Audition your progressions and make changes with drag-and-drop
Save your own chord sets to the preset bank for later use
Export MIDI to your DAW simply by dragging and dropping

Scaler 1.1.1 Compatibility

Windows

FL Studio 12 - OK
Cubase 9.5 - No Progression Drag and Drop (Workaround: Drag MIDI to desktop then from desktop to track)
ProTools 12.8 - OK
Studio One 3 - No Progression Drag and Drop (Workaround: Drag MIDI to desktop then from desktop to track)
Ableton Live 9 - OK
Maschine 2 - OK - No MIDI routing
Reason - OK - No MIDI routing



New Features in Version 1.2

Humanise Velocities: the velocity of each note within chords is randomised to provide a more natural playing style.
MIDI Export Length: select length of MIDI notes for export and drag and drop.
Improved Progression Builder: Now handles up to 16 chords & chord progression is now played at DAW tempo.
21 New ChordSets: Classical (8), K-Pop / J-Pop (6), Neo Soul (6)
11 New Scales: Lydian augmented scale, Acoustic scale, Major locrian scale, Ukrainian dorian scale, Hungarian gipsy scale, Melodic minor scale (asc), Half-diminished scale, Phrygian dominant scale, Persian scale, Neapolitan major scale, Neapolitan minor scale

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