This won’t be as pressing a problem if I can ever figure out how to delete a chord from Section C, the “Main Track”, but because I can’t I’m looking for a way to change the octave there. Is there any way to do that on the iPadOS version of Scaler 3?
To delete a chord use the “right-click” context menu. To do it with your fingers put one finger on the chord then briefly touch another finger anywhere else. Throughout Scaler 3 lots of stuff can be found on these menus.
Use the same menu to edit a chord. In edit mode you can add or remove notes on the keyboard and change the inversion, semitones or octaves at the top of the screen. The menu can also double or half the length of one or more chords.
Oh for crying out loud, I had even read about the “Multi-Touch Gesture” in the manual, but it never occurred to me that “Multi-Touch Gesture” was their way of redefining “right click” on the iPad, which has pretty much always been tap with two fingers or long-press depending on context in all the other apps I use. Thanks for helping me realize there’s a fundamental mechanic I didn’t grasp. Now I’m curious how “hover” has been redefined too. Back to the manual…
I feel like nothing I look up in the manual is correct. To be clear, I’m using Scalar 3 on iPadOS, and the manual says I can delete chords by two methods: “Hover over a chord and click the ‘X’ at the top right, or right-click and select Delete Chord.” Neither of those work. Hovering produces no menu, no ‘x’, no nothing. Right clicking does nothing. Any suggestions?
See my reply here:
The manual has a specific ‘iPad’ section which covers these gestures. On board tutorial helps here too.
Yeah, I worked through both of them multiple times. I just didn’t connect that the multi gesture was a right click. And I still don’t understand what hovering is and can’t get it to work.
Unless you have the posh Apple Pencil and a fairly posh iPad I don’t think there is a way to hover. But you don’t need to hover for anything.
Correct! No hover required anymore for iPad. @Phileosophos I think maybe the manual as a general manual with an iPad specific section isn’t working for you and I can see how that causes confusion. The other option we had in Scaler 2 was a ‘Shift’ key that made all of these things more obvious but I always found it jarring even if it was 100% clear. I don’t like being taken out of music making flow…
Oh really? So they’re talking about actual iPad “hover” with the Apple Pencil Pro? As it turns out, my iPad is only one model out of date, and I do have such a pencil I use for drawings and such. I’m going to have to try that. I just couldn’t believe they were actually referring to hover with a music app!
For the record, hover doesn’t work: no matter how long I hover with the Apple Pencil Pro, the most that happens is the chord highlights. But it never exposes any tools to delete (or do anything else to) the chord.