Going through the Scalar 3 tutorials, it seems that most of them focus on synthwave, ambient, and cinematic creations. I’m wondering if anyone is using Scalar 3 to develop other genres, for example, 70s funk and soul, which is a very different genre from the more ambient ones.
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I do other stuff.
Honestly, I started with Scaler for the patterns. Now I rarely use them. I mostly use the progression building tools as it has a richer and more usable palette of tools to work with than found elsewhere.
I also enjoy the scale locking as training wheels for scales I am unfamiliar with. It is so nice not to have to think about it.
Here is something I was just playing with this evening.
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Very nice. My style 
Guitar, piano… If this is only a POC, what can we expect from the final version?
I write a lot of metal, specifically folk/celtic style metal. I like to throw in cinematic elements and Scaler helps me move beyond power chords.
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Good Morning,
when I started my Scaler-Experience I tried to build some “Non-synth” but in the end “synthetic sound”. Background: I bought for really nothing the UJAM-Collection and i tried to build a folk-pop-song on the fastest way. I had at this time also synthesizer V in my portfolio. The song is not a big thing and technically semi. But another Genre - that was your question… 
Greets, Thomas
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Nice job with Solaria here (at least it sound like her). What UJam instruments did you primarily use for the tune?
Hi - and thank you!
Yes, it’s Solaria.
Hm, in UJAM i used the Acoustic-Guitars Silk and Amber, one of the BaseJukebox and this Piano Vogue. It was just a test with these things. For some very fast ideas they works very well. But, be careful and patient. UJAM has over the year so many “sales”.
Sometimes they are great, if you are without any ideas…
Greets
Thomas
I’ve already gone down their rabbit hole of products. I like Cinedream and use it quite often for background stuff. And of course, I am also on the Dreamtonics realm as well. I don’t use it that much lately as there are some type of latency issues going on when editing with Windows machines and hopefully they release a patch for that eventually.
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Hmmm…i have no problems with SynV. Meanwhile I upgraded to V2. For me it’s great. My Ryzen9 works good and stable - the new feature with the choirs let him work - but no issues.
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Yeah, Scaler gives endless options, but I get what you mean. Starting with just a few chords to build a strong foundation makes way more sense
Otherwise it’s easy to drift into cinematic or atmospheric territory instead of keeping a clear groove and identity 
My main mode of working with it right now is to use Bass Follow and Divisi to play around with those two features the most. But I realize Scaler does so much more, I just need to implement more of it into some compositions and see where it goes. And have fun doing it (only cause I’m a pretty casual user!). but using the Ujam plugins along with Scaler does produce some interesting 3rd party sounds for sure.
I use Scaler for the modal chord progressions, I hate using standard chord progressions. I’m with you on that.