42% off “Scaler” by Plugin Boutique

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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!

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Find Musical Inspiration With “Scaler” – The Creative Chord Composer!

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.

  • 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

With an onboard bank of over 2,000 scales & modes including genre & artist presets, there’s more than enough to keep the creative juices flowing!

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How Does It Work? Start Writing Your Next Song In Just A Few Clicks!

Get Writing Immediately – Detect Mode & Chord Building

Using the unique Detect mode, “Scaler” can determine what key and scale you’re in and suggest chords that match your music by simply playing them in an attached MIDI keyboard or using piano roll note detection from within your DAW

Scaler is a plugin instrument capable of outputting MIDI as well as audio. With regard to the latter, a piano, guitars, strings and several sampled synth sounds are built in for scratch work, so you can quickly get a chord progression together for export as a MIDI file entirely within it.

  • 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 23 scales and modes giving you a total of 276 options to choose from
  • 12 unique voicing types giving you a potential of over 2,000 Scales and modes
  • Check how closely a given scale matches your detected input

Explore Thousands Of Scale, Mode & Chord Suggestions

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.

  • 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

Browse Hundreds Of Artist & Genre-based Chord Sets

Struggling to find that killer chord progression? “Scaler” provides you with plenty of inspiration straight off the bat, Mix & Match directly in the plugin itself from a huge collection of artist and genre presets including:

  • Genres – Over 100 genre and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Cinematic, EDM…
  • Artists – Carl Cox, MJ Cole, The Temper Trap, Mitekiss, CeCe Rogers and Mike Huckaby

Flex Your Production Chops! Building Your Song & Exporting It To Your DAW

“Scaler” has a number of innovative built-in tools that allow you to easily build, audition and export your chord progressions as MIDI files for use in your personal projects.

Build Your Chord Progression

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.

  • Drag and drop chords from your palette into Scaler’s Progression Builder
  • Edit, 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

Assign Sounds & Export As A MIDI File To Your DAW

Obviously, the ultimate idea is to trigger other instruments via Scaler, and how this is set up depends on the host DAW.

For VST hosts, Scaler loads as an instrument plugin onto a MIDI track, the output of which is sent to a second track (hosting the target instrument) using the DAW’s routing system.

For Audio Unit hosts (i.e. Logic Pro), the ScalerControl MIDI effect plugin is loaded instead. This is identical to the regular Scaler, but sits in front of the target instrument on the same track, outputting MIDI directly to it.

  • 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 or guitar fretboard
  • Audition chords from your chosen scale with a choice of eight internal sounds
  • Play and record one-finger chords using Scaler’s Bind MIDI function
  • Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real time and sync to your DAW
  • Export MIDI to your DAW simply by dragging and dropping
  • Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler to control your favourite synths

“Scaler” is a unique MIDI utility plugin which understands the music theory of chord progressions so you don’t have to!

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So What Exactly Can I Do With “Scaler”?

With note detection, scale selection and chord suggestions, and an onboard bank of over 2,000 scales and modes including genre and artist presets, Scaler is a comprehensive but easy-to-use toolbox that will help anyone make better music!

  • 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

Still not convinced? Try the 30 day DEMO before you buy! (Plays a couple of seconds of noise from time to time – requires a Plugin Boutique account)

Note: The latest version of Scaler is only 64-bit compatible for Mac.

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42% off "Scaler" by Plugin Boutique

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Normally €45 – get it at 42% off before it’s gone!

  • 42% off the normal price (normally €45)!
  • 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
  • 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 23 scales and modes giving you a total of 276 options to choose from
  • 12 unique voicing types giving you a potential of over 2,000 Scales and modes
  • Over 100 artist chord sets from the likes of Carl Cox, MJ Cole, The Temper Trap, Mitekiss, CeCe Rogers and Mike Huckaby
  • Over 100 genre and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Cinematic, EDM…
  • Play and record one-finger chords using Scaler’s Bind MIDI function
  • Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real time and sync to your DAW
  • Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler to control your favourite synths
  • Compatible DAWS
  • Windows – FL Studio 12, FL Studio 20 –  OK (MIDI routing available from VST2 only), Cubase 9.5 – OK, ProTools 12.8 – OK, Studio One 3 – OK, Studio One 4 – OK, Ableton Live 9 – OK, Ableton Live 10 – OK, Reaper – OK, Bitwig Studio 2 – OK, Maschine 2 – OK – No MIDI Routing: Use Blue Cat Audio Patchwork for MIDI Routing, Reason – OK – No MIDI Routing: Use Blue Cat Audio Patchwork for MIDI Routing
  • Mac – Cubase 9.5 – OK, ProTools 12.8 – OK, FL Studio 12 – OK (VST, not VST3), FL Studio 20 –  OK (MIDI routing available from VST2 only). Studio One 3 – OK, Studio One 4 – OK, Ableton Live 9 – OK, Ableton Live 10 – OK, Logic Pro X – OK, Reaper – OK, Bitwig Studio 2 – OK, Maschine 2 – OK – No MIDI Routing: Use Blue Cat Audio Patchwork for MIDI Routing, Reason – OK – No MIDI Routing: Use Blue Cat Audio Patchwork for MIDI Routing
  • OSX 10.7. and later (64 bit) – VST, AU
  • Windows 7 and later (32/64 bit) – VST
  • Important note: The latest version of Scaler is only 64-bit compatible for Mac computers.
  • Still not convinced? Try the 30 day DEMO before you buy! (Plays a couple of seconds of noise from time to time – requires a Plugin Boutique account)
  • Use richer chords and new chord progressions to take your productions to a new level!

What People Think About 42% off “Scaler” by Plugin Boutique

  • "Plugin Boutique’s Scaler is a MIDI utility plugin which, to be blunt, understands the music theory of chord progressions so you don’t have to. Is that controversial? Is that cheating? If you can get over that, it’s a great tool for jump-starting the creative process as well as for understanding how chords work in recent popular music."

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    Bedroom Producers Blog

    Bedroom Producers Blog

    Music Industry Blog

  • "Scaler is a fast, intuitive and genuinely educational compositional assistant that delivers a limitless diversity of chord progressions with no music theory or keyboard skills required. Scaler is an incredibly useful tool for composition novices and experts alike."

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    Music Radar

    Music Radar

    Music Industry Blog

  • "I am really impressed by Scaler. It took only a few minutes from launching it the first time to coming up with a nice chord progression. You might think things get complicated with so many scales and voicings, but in fact Scaler is incredibly easy to work with. This plugin is likely going to speed up your workflow, boost creativity, and educate you along the way."

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    Rekkerd

    Rekkerd

    Music Industry Blog

  • "We'd recommend Scaler to any producer or songwriter looking to beef up their chord progressions, learn more exotic chords and voicings, or find inspiration from some stellar artist and genre presets. Scaler is easy to use, affordable, and definitely, a helpful tool..."

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    DJ Booth

    DJ Booth

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  • "Scaler will undoubtedly appeal to those who are stuck in a compositional rut and, given the price, is accessible to almost anyone."

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    Sound On Sound

    Sound On Sound

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