Scaler 3 makes it easier to take new directions, solve musical puzzles, and improve your works-in-progress in completely new ways. 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, edit the voicing, and record or drag the progression into your DAW.

Scaler 3 Key Features 

• 100s of Chord Sets and Scales categorised by mood, artist and genre. Scaler 3 greatly expands the number of chord sets and makes them easier to work with.
• Build Chord Progressions using the sequencer and get suggestions based on your currently selected chords.
• Play your favourite instruments with VST/AU Plugin Hosting, including effects too.
• With powerful Detection of MIDI and audio, Scaler can determine what key and scale you’re in and suggest chords that match your music.
• Standalone mode for working on your desktop computer without needing a DAW.
• Huge library of Motions lets you play chords as melodies, arpeggios, basslines and strums, and to modify them using the piano roll editor and global Note Properties..
• Check the Circle of Fifths to find nearby chord substitutions and their extensions.
• Solve your modulation puzzles in five ways: Progression, Secondary Scale, Modal Interchange, Mediants, Neo-Riemannian.
• Experiment with Voice Grouping to keep your chords within a certain range or apply drop voicings, guitar voicing and more.
• 50 Internal Sounds to play your inputs, chords and progressions, or load VST/AU instrument plugins.
• Use Bind to Keyboard to control chord playback with notes, for one-finger chords, arpeggios and more.
• Discover new chord expressions – chord substitutions, inversions, variations, voicings and extensions – in the Colors page.
• Line up seven progressions with different motions to compare in the Sketch Pad page.