Scaler 3 is a great companion to Chordcat. Chordcat is a hardware device with chords, sounds, and sequencer and can suggest a table of 16 possible chords to choose from. The table changes after every choosen chord to enable a suitable “next chord” and the results are very convincing in my ears, especially when it comes to Jazz and a bit more advanced progressions. The algorithm works much better than many so named suggester tools, which give often randomly produced, weired, unsuable results. But the built in sequencer is suitable only for very short ideas and not for complete arragements. This is where Scaler 3.2.0 comes in with its great arrangement possibilities. Chordcat has 8 midi channels and can work in midi multimode (8 different instruments at once). It should work with Scaler 3.2.0 midi out, but I haven´t tested this. Besides some average sounds Chordcat has very good electric and acoustic pianos.Thanks to Scaler 3.2.0 ´s new user motions recording function you can record rhythmic house piano phrases for examples with ease.
Doesn’t scaler do this anyway?
What advantage is there to using the hardware along with the software? Input for scaler perhaps?
Does Chordcat give you more consonant and more dissonant chord matches (thinking a la Reason’s chord gen module - which I got Scaler to replace)
Many thanks