Plugin Boutique Scaler 2 v2.4.1 VST2 VST3 AU AAX

Plugin Boutique Scaler 2 v2.4.1 VST2 VST3 AU AAX [WIN MacOSX]

Scaler 2.4.1 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 2.4.1 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
Over 200 artist chord sets from the likes of Carl Cox, MJ Cole, The Temper Trap, Mitekiss, CeCe Rogers and Mike Huckaby
Over 300 unique genre, common and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Cinematic, EDM, Metal…
Browse chord variations to get suspended chords, extended chords, dominant sevenths and jazz chords
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
Play melodic expressions with over 200 phrases, performances and rhythms by professional musicians across various time signatures
Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real-time and synced to your DAW
Discover chord substitutions that lend variety to your progressions
Experiment with different chord voicings to spread notes across the keyboard
Export MIDI to your DAW simply by dragging and dropping
Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler 2.4.1 to control your favourite synths or use over 30 internal electronic, acoustic and orchestral sounds
Play and record one-finger chords and melodies using Scaler 2’s Bind MIDI function
Establish your scale with audio detection as well as MIDI detection
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

What’s new in version 2?

Redesigned from the ground up with over 200 new chord sets, hundreds of new scales, and 30 new instruments
Play melodic expressions with over 200 phrases, performances and rhythms by professional musicians
Establish your scale with audio detection as well as MIDI detection
Keys Lock helps you create emotive melodies by locking keys to your chords
MIDI Capture lets you perform inside Scaler 2.4.1 and then export the results as MIDI
Modulation suggestions give you new ways to reach musical destinations
Get more natural-sounding melodies and expressions with the humanise function
Edit Mode for adjusting length, inversion, octave and more per chord in a pattern
Pad View helps you to arrange multiple patterns and key switch between them
Audition new progressions in context with DAW Sync playback
Voice Grouping can keep your chords within a certain range for voice leading
Chord editing and moving tools include lasso, drag n drop, replace and insert
More than 100 new expressions in triplet feel and across several time signatures including 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, 12/8
New Chord Create / Editor mode – create chords by searching & selecting from the circle of fifths or by entering note by note on your keyboard
Control individual notes and velocities in each chord
New Common Phrases (Basic, Chordal & Progression)
Improve timing precision – Fix timing offset in recorded performance, prevent short notes from being added to recorded MIDI at looping points, and prevent hung notes.
Added the ability to Quantise and Latch chords with Perform mode OFF

What’s new in version 2.4.1?

Content & Playback

New Common Phrases (Basic, Chordal & Progression)
New Basic Performances
Improve timing precision – Fix timing offset in recorded performance, prevent short notes from being added to recorded MIDI at looping
points and prevent hung notes.
Add the ability to Quantise and Latch chords with Perform mode OFF
Fix “Chord+Melody” playback to avoid creating overlapping MIDI notes.

MIDI Mapping

Add the ability to manually select the MIDI CC to map from a dropdown when creating an action.
Add the ability to map “MIDI Panic” to a command binding
Add the ability to bind dropdown menus’ “Previous” / “Next” command to a MIDI CC
Add new assignable commands for keyswitch actions (toggle chord/scale mode, toggle chord mute, switch melody patterns)
Add the ability to disable keyswitch (green keys) from the side menu.
Add the ability to override an existing command mapping.

Other Improvements

Fix – Extracted Voicing – Avoid creating an extra gap in octave when re-voicing extended chords
Include inversions when exporting MIDI markers (slash chords)
Fix multi-selection not applying changes when modifying multiple chords in EDIT matrix
Keys-Lock – “Scale Notes Mapped” profile now prioritise the natural position of each mapped note correctly.
Forcing a chord set into a scale now refreshes the chord colours and Section B properly.
Multi-selection of chords are now moved properly when dragged from a Section C pattern into an empty pattern.
Fix an issue causing the Keys-Lock settings to be lost when entering/exiting the Chord-Edit view.
Dragging a single chord with an expression ON now exports the duration of a single chord instead of the duration of the whole pattern.
Fix a bug in the generation of modulation pathways creating duplicate suggestions in Modulation Popup.
Fix an issue preventing the transposition of “Community” chord sets.
Fix an issue causing the “…” button to appear in the wrong location.
The “MOD” button in the Quick-Navigation menu is now disabled when using an unsupported scale.