Just bought it.
The timing is pretty good as I’m (once again) getting into harmonization techniques and Scaler 2 might be able to help me, as discussed in A feature to help harmonizing melodies - #10 by davide .
Without veering too far away from this thread, I must say that I’d love a tool which could help me produce the types of rich harmonies I cherish, especially vocal ones. Some months back, I started singing bass in a barbershop chorus and it’s providing me with this intense joy of feeling the power of overtones in rich harmonies across several voices.
Now, the way Scaler works, I should be able to create chord progressions that I could then split in individual voices which I could then record on my own and get a similar feeling. It’s a lot of work, obviously. And much of it is undirected. Sure, I could do “the usual stuff” (much barbershop follows Circle of Fifths progressions and some of the voice leading can be done with a bit of fiddling on voicing). Still, there are steps missing.
And maybe the course will get me through some of that.
There are uses for Scaler 2 which make little use of “music theory”. Others which leverage an understanding of a variety of ideas from music theory (including Neo-Riemannian, though it doesn’t work so well beyond triads). Yet other usage patterns which can bring a deeper insight to what’s behind what counts as music theory, these days.
All this to say… Thanks for the reminder!