Hello folks. I’m busy doing the scaler course, seen many YT videos, but have not yet heard of a way to do Improv with keys-lock mode, but instead of using an internal scaler chord progression, using the chord progression of one of your existing DAW tracks. This would be amazing for improvising to t…

[image] Mark Palmos: how do you mute the chords? I don’t see a way to do that, no matter which Keys Lock option I use a minute that I make a screenshot here it is [Cattura]

Scaler does not currently have a feature that allows you to use the chord progression of an existing DAW track in real time. Simply you can use third party plugin

Hi @davide , well, I think that only works AFTER you have created the melody… so you create it then have scaler alter it to scale. What I want to do is to create a chord progression, put it in the DAW, then go back to scaler and run the same chord progression in Scaler, but instead of playing chords,…

@davide the other thing about scale lock is that you have to record the chords as well as the improv bit simultaneously, you cannot, I think, record only the improv bit! This makes it nigh on impossible to remove later… a bit like piecing together shredded office papers :slight_smile:

@warner thanks for the response. What third party plugin is that? I have tried REMidi but AFAICT it does not allow you to :- read the chords on the DAW while sending that to Scaler as a “Pattern” which can then be keys-locked for you to improvise to. or is there another third party software out the…

Not sure if it helps, but you can mute the chords in the settings so you are triggering them but not actually recording them or listening to them.

Hi @davide I got all excited and dug through the settings in scaler, but don’t see a way to mute the chords… I tried setting “Play Chords On Change” to OFF, but that didn’t work. Also if I make the playback sound “none” then I can’t hear what I’m doing when improvising… Am I looking in the wrong pla…

…also, If the chords are still being triggered, but are silent, won’t they still be recorded as events in the DAW? I really simply want to use Scaler as a way to play in the key of each of the the chords in the chord sequence without recording the chords (I would do that separately by drag drop).

@davide a kind of work around that works is to make the chord progression play back at -2 octaves… so it’s very easy to delete later, and also not too annoying to hear, some instruments don’t go that low anyway.

[image] davide: you can mute the chords i Hi @Fredphoesh you can mute chords only using the 2 bottom items in Keys Lock menu, not the first 3

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davide September 18, 2024, 12:56am 3

Well it kinda does, certainly Scale Lock mode does! Scaler 2 + reMIDI 2 = Insane Functionality & Endless Possibilities

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