This comes up a lot, and I spent much of yesterday in trial and error to isolate the issues. I’m getting close, and I think I can boil down the problem. This pertains to both EZ Keys and EZ Bass:
Here’s what I’m trying to do, on both EZ Keys and EZ Bass: I want to use Scaler 3 to “drive” these instruments in my DAW (Studio One Seven). That is, I want to create chord progressions in Scaler, choose grooves in EZK and EZB, and have Scaler’s chords recognized by these instruments.
The key part is, I want to use Scaler’s ability to substitute chords on the fly, so if I change a Scaler chord from an Fm6 to an F6, EZK and EZB will recognize this. That means, for workflow reasons, I want to avoid EZK’s / EZB’s chord track - I want Scaler to drive these changes.
This works with other plugins. For example, if I’ve got a DAW track with an NI Session Guitar plugin, I can set that track’s input as Scaler, the track output as the guitar, and any strum pattern I choose in the guitar plugin will automatically reflect changes I make in Scaler.
The same is true with bass instruments. If I have an NI Session Upright Bass on a DAW track and I set that track’s input as Scaler, it will play a bass line matching Scaler’s chord progression, using whatever bass groove I’ve selected in the bass plugin. I do not have to separately input the chords into that plugin.
But this isn’t working with EZK or EZB. For example, if I take an EZK track in my DAW, leave its groove screen blank - no chords and no grooves - and set Scaler as my input to that track, it’ll play Scaler’s block chords perfectly, and reflect any changes I make in Scaler. But if I then select an EZK groove and drop it into EZK’s groove slot, it will play that groove with its embedded chords - it doesn’t follow Scaler’s input.
Hence my question: Is there a way to detach EZK or EZB grooves from their embedded chords, so I can get their grooves to follow Scaler’s inputs, the way I can with NI Kontakt instruments?
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P.S. I know there are other workarounds, but they all require extra workflow moves. For example, I can drop a Scaler progression into Studio One’s chord track; drop an EZ Keys or EZ Bass groove onto an instrument track in the DAW, and set those tracks to follow the chord track. But doing so, I lose the magic Scaler ability to sub chords on the fly - any changes I might discover in Scaler I’ll have to hand-draw into Studio One’s chord track.