Yes, the start was a little rough. But 3.1 I think is a truly amazing tool. I use both Scaler 3 and Instacomposer 2 to quickly build ideas. My main instruments are EW Opus/Fantasy/Pianos/RA and The Orchestra Complete 3.3, and Analog Lab 5. I play the piano and prefer the Score page in Studio One 7 over the piano roll.
I find Scaler 3.1 to be an amazing tool for helping build quickly outlines of scores. I have a fairly powerful computer system (9950x/4070 TI super/64 gig DDR5/fast internal SSD 4 TB) and perhaps that is one reason I love 3.1, truly a compositional time saver. If your are new to Scaler, take some time read the manual and play with it. You won’t learn it in a day or even fully in a month or two. However, you will very quickly start to see how it is so much better than pen and paper or even just sitting down and playing at your keyboard or piano IMHO. In any endeavor, it takes real effort to produce something that has value. In music there are many steps from composition to mastering to get to a song ready for release. There is no easy road unless you subscribe to one of the AI systems, but it won’t be your song, your ideas carefully crafted, and you won’t have the internal satisfaction of true creation. Scaler 3 is a tool, not an end game. And I think it is a great tool that can help with speed of creation as well as allowing a person without full knowledge of music theory create the music in their heart and head. So, thank all of you who built this wonderful tool and released it a price that is extremely reasonable.
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Yeah I agree. I have my little gripes here and there but the update is a big step in the right direction and I just can’t see someone still being that confused about the UI after the opening tutorial tbh lol…
This is what updates are for and as long as they keep listening to the community I think we should give the team some grace. That said, simplicity and easy workflow is king, and I hope that is something they are keeping in mind.
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