Plugin Boutique Scaler v1.7 / v1.6.1 WiN MacOSX

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



New Features in Version 1.7:

Scaler 1.7 introduces several new user requested features, enhancements and bug fixes. There are 30 new Blues, Latin and Bossa Nova chord sets and over one hundred new scales including all the modes of the melodic and harmonic minor scales. You can now re-detect from the chord builder and you can preview chord sets with one click or copy all chord sets to the builder with one click. Scaler 1.7 also includes 5 new Bass tunings for the Fretboard and quickly allows for chord expansion by adding 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th to entire chord sets.

30 New Chord Sets - Blues, Latin & Bossa Nova
5 New Bass Tunings - Fretboard now supports bass tunings with 4,5 and 6 strings.
Over one hundred new chord sets including all the modes of the harmonic and melodic minor scales.
Re-Detect from builder - Find which scale fits your progression anytime in your creative process.
Preview chord sets - Play through any progression preset in one click.
Copy-to-Builder - Move all chords from a progression directly into the builder for a faster editing.
Diatonic chords improvements - Quickly navigate between triads, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th chords of any scale.
Improved chord naming - More chord definitions and simplification of existing chord names for improved readability.
Small screen support - Allow smaller UI resizing to support smaller screens and resolutions.
Bug fixes and performance improvements

New Features in Version 1.6

Improved Drag & Drop - Export strums and arpeggio simply by dragging a chord or progression to your DAW.

Heavily requested feature from users now allows that arpeggio and strum settings are included in the export. So you can now export your chords with arp pattern for use in other software / tracks

Scale Lock - New Scale-Lock mode - Map any scale to the white keys

Previously in 1.5 we locked the incorrect notes of the scale but after several user requests we also added a preference to lock to all white keys, really useful to play a c major and then select other scales which will play the first diatonic chord (and all other degrees) of that scale whilst you are holding down the c major keys

10 New Chord Sets - Cinematic - Horror & Suspense

Check these out with the new brass sounds, very filmic chord sets, instant batman, video game, horror composition!

Arpeggio Sync - Arpeggio now syncs with your DAW

The Arp didn’t sync so well when recorded through bind mode but we have now reworked the arp to sync to your daw on playback of recorded and bound notes - rock solid

2 New Sounds - Electric Piano & Brass Ensemble

Cool sounds, electric piano has been a user request

Improved Strumming - Set your preferred strumming direction
(Alternate/Up/Down) & discover a new (slower) strumming profile.

We will continue to improve strumming features but this adds some nice authenticity

Bug fixes and performance improvements

There were a few minor bugs reported to us since 1.5 release and we have addressed them here. All users should be encouraged to update!

home page: