This vst is my go to writing tool in ableton. Just to sit and work the chords out on the pads can really help you build ideas in minutes for chord structures you never knew existed. My skills and creativity are seriously improved these days.
He doesnt sound gentle to me. I think he had a fight with the misses and wants to go 12 rounds with Mike Tyson and kick his azz. OK fantastic tutorial. Thank you.
Just trying with three stack of Scaler in instruments rack with different functions( base chord and performance - performance Rhythm and Performance Phrase) and create 2 more blank midi track which listening to each scaler stacks. INSTANT COOL progression - Rhythm and phrase/melodies. The best thing using Instrument Rack is you can use it for live performances
it is odd how I went through so many piano vsts that cost me a tons for the sample alone, and I find the best piano sound in a music theory plugin. Odd.
@@PluginBoutiqueOfficial future request : after detect midi or audio, would it be good to offer list of suggestions of the next chord or melody progression?
@@PluginBoutiqueOfficial oh dunno about it. Is there any tutorial. If not, let me dig through. This plugin is so rich with possibilities. The highlight is the non linear approach. The maker understands that to make music can start anywhere, chords or melody. 🙏👍
anarchy...and you’ll always be a beginner if you rely on a computer to do the work. The next update will be a blank screen except for a big red button that you press and it makes a whole new song for you. To the death of real music. Just how the media like it. That’s anarchy for you!!!
Using the app like shown here probably isn’t a great idea, especially if you’re relying on it. As a companion tool it seems nice though, to sort of check what you’ve done or expand bits and pieces. Still testing the trial though.
This is flipping amazing 😃 great plugin I had it a while now since it just came out but never used it in its entirety to make a beat.... Awesome tutorial and great plugin good job Plugin Boutique
Would it be possible to actually share the midi files used for the drums and sub? As a newbie would be good to go through the whole process from start to finish. cheers
Boom! And there you go! Lol! Man you made it look so easy and sound so mackadocious! 🔥 great video!!!!!! I just bought me Scaler 2 based off your video dude!!!!
Scaled 2 is a game changes for sure. In 3 can we get more modulation on the notes so its not so repetitive sounding > This can be achieved by alternating the chords in a similar range randomly based on what notes came before or other such parameters . Of course sensitivity of the variations can be set to limit or expand the octave range in a sequence . Thanks !
Great intro to Scaler 2. I am having trouble getting the first note, Dmin, to play any of the PERFORM changes (Rhythm or Arpeggio). It stays the same whilst the other three are changing. Any idea why would that be?
At first, I thought the plugin was complying with classical "voice leading", but from 4:19, it seems the writing has many perfect fifths and parallel motion. Perhaps writing excerpts that comply with voice leading principles can come in a future update?
this is so great, I found out with bitwig to record on the audio channel from scaler you go to the left side and choose first heading/scaler 2/second heading/master
Great tutorial, thanks. I followed along and repeated everything, but for some reason the rhythm that you chose "Risoluto," didn't alter the chords playing.
Shame this video was not also done in Logic. Not sure how to record all the audio in Logic like its routed in the DAW in the video :( .... Although having multiple instances of Scaler could work. How do you get the same 'instance' of scaler on another midi channel ?
Can’t get the perform feature to work. My DAW is Studio One 5 and my OS is the newest Catalina. I followed your video step by step and want play rhythms or use perform feature. Help!!!
scaler 2 extracts all the chords of a song ?? gave me very different results with scale detection :/ song only 4 chords :):):) I just need to find the chords of the song
Hey loving the plugin guys, but isn't the "midi capture" feature redundant? Why wait for it to generate the midi and then drag it it, when you can simply select all the chords in your pattern and drag the whole thing into your DAW track instantly?
Scaler is a great tool for ideas but the rhythms make it muzak. You have to edit the midi into a more original and personal timing to get it grooving but for a start it's good. I HAVE A REQUEST; all the rhythms are in classical standards but can you make the timing more funky, groovier in the next update? Maybe you can built in a sort of tapping function so that the midi follows the beat I tap into Scaler, that would be awesome and make it far more human.
I love this plugin it's great. But seems to have a mind of its own at times, the scale roots change from the desired degree constantly so my song at the bottom doesn't match the chords on top. the IV chords aren't available in the RnB sets and so on.... other than the frustrating quirks it's a wonderful tool if you know theory and want to experiment on a deep level
Lizz MiriBaby My version 2.3 was crashing in Reaper, but there's a new version out as of a couple of days ago - check it out it may solve your crashes too.
great for four bars...how does this turn into a song? What if you want the next 4 bars to be a different progression? More Scalers on more tracks? A full song in that case would have 80 scalers lol....so confused here...
For some reason everytime i hit a note/ chord whether on midi or in scaler it sustains the sound as if in large room never ending????? why why why Can anyone help
I'm getting something like this ,,its hard to explain but it comes after i would say like 1 min after routing it to a mixer channel.. its like a static sound that starts quietly and gradually gets louder un till I turn off vst?? is it the same problem u was having ?? if so did u resolve g::>??
great video! if i wanted to play the chords to give them a human feel (as opposed to having them perfectly quantized), would i just need to use the keys lock?
i wish you would of done a tutorial for this, like , explaining it in more depth for those of us that are new to beat making , and dont know much about music theory
When i use midi capture feature and drag and drop clips into the ableton midi channel, the clips are always at least 3h long.. I do not know why, is there any fix? update or something
Mikko Vuorinen...the best bet is to create your own chords and progressions. That’s a big part of the fun of songwriting. This is cheating. Next year will see a realise of Scaler 3. The only thing you’ll need to do is press the big red button...you can’t miss it because it’s the only button. No other action is required. Then Scaler 3 writes the whole song for you. Guaranteed to write a whole song for you. Just from pressing the big red button. Maybe add a sample too. If you’re going to cheat at least cheat honestly! It’s no surprise that today’s music is generally garbage. Just a little I.T knowledge and you can write a song. That’ll be good!
@@jamisbillson4872 That's a little harsh. Plugins like this aren't ment to be used only to compensate for your lack of knowledge. As usual it's up to the user what you do with it. If you have something between your ears you'll use it to learn something from it's progressions, modulation options and/or overcome writer's block every now and then. It's a learning tool more than anything else. Just because a beginner will use it to cheat doesn't mean that's its purpose. I'm pretty sure the tools that we have available nowadays aren't resposible for "today's garbage music".
Hi there. Sorry to hear about the confusion. Here is a playlist of all our tutorials about Scaler 2. It' incredibly powerful and worth learning about :) - JC - ru-vid.com/group/PLbzXXSO8ZQ8UfP9uNUOizS-J_EyvA57RY
Hi plugin boutique. Great tutorial. I'm an upcoming artist in my country by the way. A newbie. But Can you please tell me the name of the drum machine you used to create that specific drum sound/kit. I've been trying to get that type of drum sound for years without number? I'll appreciate your warm response. Thank you very much.
Oyintokoni Preowei the drums are actually a loop in this video so Joshua may have made them himself or he may have just lifted the loop from a sample pack. That said it sounds like a roland 808 to me. This is a standard drum machine sound so I would think your daw would have a version of it, if not there are plenty of 808 freeware plugins and tons of 808 sample packs.
My ONE concern in using the songwriting technique demoed in this video is...eventually one of those VOICES or patterns will be in a hit song, and then its copyrighted and people will come along and use the SAME voicing in another song, which will be recognized from the HIT song, and can you say lawsuit? How does that work? are we ok because we used a standard pattern and voicing to create our song melodies?
Yes it can, however you can't play any Reason instruments with Scaler due to no internal midi. Not a major issue as Scaler has a good set of built in sounds and you can so easily drag midi into a Reason track to play any instrument.
I wish I was more knowledgeable in music theory so I can know why I'm choosing a certain chord vs something that I think sounds good. I just can't seem to really grasp music theory though. I may try again to learn it but I can't comprehend it at this time. If I knew music theory I would have more fun using Scaler 2
Press "Alt" on your keyboard and then click on the logo of Scaler at the top left corner. This will bring back the default size. Then you can go to "Settings" (at the top right corner) choose "preferences" and you can adjust the size (or even colour) of your Scaler plugin.
