Just want to say, playing around with the new Divisi feature, this is awesome, especially with some of my UJam plugins!
We’re having fun now, thank you for that feature.
I can see a lot of experimentation with this!
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Thanks and good to hear, yeah it’s really cool. I love it using it with my external synths to send each voice of a chord to a different synth as well as the example in my 3.2 video. I am sure we will expand on this as we get more feedback.
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Haven’t tried Scenes yet but it looks promising. As a songwriter, it might just fit in well with my workflow.
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I was looking for more info on divisi in the manual but there’s nothing more than a mention of its existence on p. 66. Some description of usage would be appreciated for articulations & other features. Scanning through videos is inefficient. Thanks.
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Not really my cup of tea, I explain, in scaler 2 you can route midi chords played on keys on several midi chanels, I don’t know if I missing something but for me it’s not the same now, we need to activate transport to have splited channels so we can’t play splited chords on keyboard in live anymore…
I’m loving Divisi. A nice surprise in this release.
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I dont think the way divisi has been implemented in 3.2 is as good as it should be, because it removes the ability to use motions or articulations - you have to use the divisi articulation to split the chord midi across midi output channels. The divisi option hence only gives single lines of block chords. And if you set the main track to use a performance, the divisi articulation takes no notice of that and just gives the output as if the main track was block chords.
A better way for this to work would be for divisi output to be selectable independently of particular motions or articulations, and for Scaler to be intelligent enough to be able to allocate the voices across midi channels independently of how many voices are being generated at any given point in time. That would likely require a seperate menu where the user has to specify how they want the divisi output to work. But if implemeneted it would mean Scaler could also be used for live midi input, unlike the situation we have now.
I agree there’s always room for improvement of course - across every feature.
For Divisi I would like to see it introduced as a modifier in the motion tracks so it applies to motions like you suggest, but also as a performance tool that allows you to perform Divisi live (much like the Divisi we had in Scaler 2).
Thanks for the feedback.
Apologies if my prior post sounded a bit negative, but the loss of the way Scaler did divisi in version 2 has been a problem for me. Not enough for me to stick with that Scaler version (and there are many great changes with version 3), but something I needed a workaround for.
The workaround was to take the Scaler3 midi output and pass it to venomode Phrasebox2 before sending it to a sound generating instrument. Phrasebox2 has the ability to send live notes in a chord to different midi channels according to note order. It can also do lots of other things, like fill notes, play patterns you design or even generate randomised patterns for you.
If you havent seen or used Phrasebox2 I really think you should. It has a lot of functionality which i think could be integrated into Scaler - I could imagine a Phrasebox2 like interace as an additional tab in Scaler allowing the user to create their own passages/motions which could then be used on the arrange page or for live playback on the browse page.
Scaler is just great, by the way, so thank you as always!
The above got me thinking of a relatively simple change that could be made to Scaler 3 on the browse page which would be useful. As it stands you can select a single performance/motion/passage for your set of chords to play on the bottom left of the interface. What if rather than that single choice, one could select a set of 12 of them and have them key-switched by the octave below the midi keys which are bound to our chords. So if we have bound our midi keyboard so it plays one of the sets of chords, we could press one midi key for to select chord, and another for the choice of how it is played back. This would give more flexibility for live performamce and experimentation rather than having to use the arrange view or keep changing the performance via the drop down menu.
I guess you can do this in the Sketch Page to a limited degree? Set a motion for each lane and keyswitch between them? We are going to allow different Motions per chord in a future expansion of the Sketch Page specifically to improve live performance in S3. I think that will help. As always, thanks for feedback.