I’m using the standalone version 3.0 under Windows 11. The user manual reports at p. 52 that in the Sketch page we can use keyswitches to trigger different progressions on the fly. How to do that?
I have been asking the same question on the forum and youtube. So far no good answer. I am hoping for the same function as in Scaler 2 is eventually released.
You can do this via automation. Expose the parameters in your DAW. Implementing Keyswitches as per Scaler 3 is on our list but it often got in the way of keyswitches used for this party VSTs like Kontakt so we are trying to avoid them and move to automations
As a guitar player, I use the feature myself for playing complex chords in a live environment. I have the switches labeled on our lyric/chord sheet for the different sections. I hope you can bring that back and have a setting to enable/disable for the 3rd party clashes. I am also hoping you are eventually providing a method to move the full sessions with all my song chords from Scaler 2 to Scaler 3.
Here are the exposed parameters I get for the plugin. I’ve tried the Bind Zone with no success. Could you be more specific on the parameter required to control the Keyswitch on Sketch. Thx
I was trying the standalone with no clue to have it working, now I have Scaler 3 VST, inside my DAW which is Cubase Pro 13. There I see 3 parameters: Host Bypass, Global Motion and Bind Zone. I tried Bind Zone and it works: it has a lot of possible binds along the 127 values, from all windows, the 7 sketches binds are in the upper middle range, best way is activating a bind just before the automation, then create automation so that the automation value settles in the bind value. In my daw it writes an horizontal (constant) curve. I clicked onto the curve to create a node, and hovering the mouse it will tell which bind it is. In my daw it reports “CreateSketchTrack1”, then the following is “CreateSketchTrack2” and so on. They work if you paint some notes in the midi track in the C2 octave of course
I just finished exploring Scaler 3 via the user manual and the standalone version to check things, which I have done in the past 3 days. First I have to say that I am blown away by the new features, the chord browser with all there, the new explore function, the arrange page with all the Motions and vsti and vst support there that really makes us easy layering chords, arp and bass, if not melody within one instance. The scissor tool that makes every clip with a different midi modifier and the midi editor that gives me the last word to Scaler’s suggestions. All these are a fantastic improvement! if I don’t get the exaxt same functionality as Scaler 2, I still have Scaler 2 on my pc to do that. That said, according to the Scaler 2 Pad functionality, I didn’t use it to make different chord progressions in the verse, chorus, bridge, ending but I used it to have 7x8=56 chords at my disposal with 2 fingers playing, to create variations real time to the main chord progression with alternate voicings and/or chords, this might be the new Colors tool. Be the sketches or be the colors, yet I still need the 2 fingers to have realtime working environment, because a single parameter automation is difficult to manage. I may suggest that other software has the capability of changing octave in the keyswitches, in the options, for instance my e-drum Triaz, so you could still cope with kontakt libraries by putting the sketch bind keyswitches to C0 octave, or C6 to stay away of the playable range of the instrument! Keeping the bind within the keyswitches would also make the Standalone version work. Regards
Thanks for that deep dive. I didn’t play with too many Bind Zone values. Good to know its the one that does the trick.
I tested out the Bind Zone value which triggered the various progressions. 1 to 7 maps to 80, 82, 85, 87, 90, 93, 95