I see there have been quite a few posts on the theme of “Frustrated by Scaler 3”, and I have encountered some ‘bumps in the road’ in understanding how to use it.
BUT…what Scaler 3 allows me to do in experimenting and exploring is inspirational, and I love that. I think the developers have created a real leap forward from Scaler 2, and I’m happy to wait for some of the ‘bumps’ to be flattened in point releases.
Just thought I should share a happy thought!
While there are some features I would like to see improved to fit my personal workflow, I am quite pleased with the upgrade. It was well worth it to me. I still have Scaler2 installed but for my main uses, I have not looked back.
To me, using it to arpeggiate and the mapping scales to the keyboard better than Scaler2. Maybe I will use some of the other features someday as they get settled in.
I personally think it’s a great leap forward from Scaler 2, and the Standalone version of 3 is actually great to use. Almost it’s own vibe imo, since I can just have Scaler 3 and my favorite synths running alone on my desktop.
Nowadays I’ve been experimenting and sketching-out all sorts of ideas on that, instead of making countless Ableton Live projects of all my scaler jam-sessions like I did in the past 
Bringing it all over to Ableton Live later on isn’t a pita, thankfully 
But yeah, Scaler 3 Standalone is at the point where you can call it a sort of MIDI Composition Workstation. Something like that sticks better than trying to frame it as almost being a DAW. Such a fun tool to play with and learn from!