In Cubase I make use of Time Offset usually set to 2, as part of workflow. I usually have my track locator starting at Bar-1. However, in Scaler 3, it is assuming that the offset bars are part of the track, so when I reset DAW back to Bar 1, Scaler goes to Bar 3. The workaround for now is Ieave 2 spaces empty at the start of the chord track.
Is there a way for Scaler to read in the Time Offset and track with the DAW? Whilst I can manually adjust, it means I have to remember to always move the chord track along two bars, and it makes the workflow a bit more clunky?
Been looking for a solution for this as well…like you I put a couple of rest chords at the beginning, but it’s not an ideal situation.
There is another headache! Again, more to do with my workflow.
So, gone back and taken off offet. Worked on Scaler-3 for first 8 chords, got them where I want and put the midi parts in. Tick Box - no issue.
OK, now I set my locators for Bars 9-17, so I can work on the next 8 bars. Come to use in Scaler-3 and … yikes, press DAW start and … ermmm, it starts on Bar 9 in Scaler-3.
Suspect this is going to be DAW dependent, but ideally, need Scaler-3 to be able to take into account locators (if this is at all possible).
Not sure how the dev-team get around this, unless there a selection you can make in Scaler-3 to set the locators to reflect the DAW.
Hi @MusicTilly, apologies for the slow reply. This is a tricky one as using time offset does seem to be a niche use case, however it makes sense for Scaler to potentially take identify bar 1 in Cubase as it’s bar 1, so we’ll take this into account and see what can be done.
For your additional issue I’m not entirely sure I follow you. You say you set your locaters for bars 9-17 and Scaler 3 starts playback at bar 9. This sounds like the expected behaviour. Presumably I’m not understanding you correctly.
Regardless, if there is a certain part of Scaler’s timeline you’d like to play which doesn’t align with your DAW’s timeline, you may like to try enabling loop playback on Scaler’s arrange page. This way Scaler will treat the start of the loop region as bar 1, relative to your DAW’s playback position. So with an 8 bar loop in Scaler, bar 9 in Cubase will translate to bar 1 in Scaler.
Hi @Tristan, I’m having a version of this conundrum as well, in a fairly common use case: I want to be able to renumber Scaler bars to account for a pickup bar offset. Is this possible, or is Scaler 3’s bar numbering fixed?