Hi, new user to Scaler 3, but now have this on both the computer and ipad and found some nice sequences. However, I still haven’t connected a keyboard while i’ve been auditioning sequences as I haven’t needed to. Occasionally however, I will find a written chord combo of a track I love online and typing that into the search box doesn’t allow me to search for the chords so is there any way around it?
Also, when i’m trying to emulate a part of an existing piece of music, because the detector isn’t as good as I would have hoped and might be successful 1 in 10 times with the music i’m testing it with (87-93 house music, particularly a piano part), it would be nice to keep expanding the suggestions until I find a nice following chord.
Another issue is importing chords. I downloaded the Musician Paradise 80s pack and there is a chord pack for Scaler 2.5. Naively, I thought it would import and work in Scaler 3, but it doesn’t, despite following a how to install them video. It takes a lot of shine off my expectations as I downloaded Ripchord to see if the packs for that worked on that and they do.
Maybe I just haven’t spent enough time with Scaler 3, or i’m not the intended user. I love a lot of what this offers though and it is especially amazing value on the iPad. Hopefully i’m missing something simple for achieving my broader objectives of a do it all chord finder player, but it feels more limiting than I expected. It’s still a keeper though.
Hey @Jigs And welcome to the forum. There’s a few points you make there and difficult to address without further details.
No doubt Scaler 3 is a complex piece of software so takes some time and worth checking through the on-board tutorial, manual and guided videos on our YouTube channel.
If it’s MIDI you are importing you can just drag and drop onto Scaler 3 or detect through the Detection. If it’s XML you can import using the import function in the user presets.
Not sure what you mean by the search box doesn’t allow searching?
Detection via audio is never perfect. Piano house chords from 90’s tunes can be a little hard to detect but you should get an idea of key and scale. MIDI works 100% of the time.
Thank you for your reply Davide. The Musician Paradise Scaler 2.5 presets are .xml files, but I’ve tried 3 different ways including following the guide that came with the presets and watching a video tutorial as as trying the import function and neither way works.
Using the search boxes in Scaler, if I type say ‘Cmin7’, including trying different ways of typing this, like leaving spaces, it doesn’t present that chord so I can drag it to the bottom into a progression. Likewise, because the piano sequences from audio are more complex than many of those in the Genres relating to house, it seems to be way off for much of the music I try, but as you say, one of the first few chords will be correct or close. Maybe the tracks are just too busy. I love the CeCe Rogers Someday progression though in the artist category. Yes, I need to dig deeper into what it offers, but I suspect I might need to use a keyboard to play the chords I can find in tutorials, to create the midi data, to create a progression preset. It doesn’t seem to be the case than I can enter chords by name to enter them that way.
Hi @Jigs Are you suing the Circle of Fifths search box like below? As you can see works fine for me searching for CMin7.
Maybe The Musician Paradise Scaler 2.5 presets are Scaler 2 Song Files which Scaler 3 doesn’t support. Open them in Scaler 2 and then export them as individual chord sets and then you will be good to go.
Yes I have worked with CeCe and he is lovely and was kind enough to provide some chord sets!
