When you hit a key on the MIDI keyboard, two keys are displayed as pressed on the scaler keyboard. It only effects mapping keys to white keys. Mapping to scale notes works as do the other modes of scale locking that I tested.
Additionally, both keys are displayed as gray rather than showing in blue and gray for the substituted notes.
Thanks @DavidK yes there does appear to be an issue with the Scale White Keys mode which we’ve now lodged. This does only appear to be a visual bug where both received and output notes are displayed in grey and doesn’t seem to be affecting functionality at all. Regardless this will be addressed in an upcoming update so thanks for the report!
It actually does have an effect but it doesn’t show up in all instruments. I mostly use Musio instruments and their legato patches (in Logic) freak out over it.
I don’t know if it is a deal breaker for anyone though as the default mapping to scale works just fine and I really don’t see that much difference in usage.
Just clarifying here this has always been the way in S3 but the ‘correct note’ (ones in scale) should be highlighted in blue. The functionality however works as expected. This differs from Chord Scales mode but this is as expected.
I don’t really understand the difference but it was working fine prior to the latest release. Honestly, this is one of my favorite features of S3. I think that the issue is that there are actually two notes (one for the original note and the one being mapped) are being generated just a few milliseconds apart. In the legato mode of the Musio patches, the second note kills the first note so it just makes a muted sound rather than playing the whole note duration.
Thanks @DavidK yes this does appear to be the case. It was not noticeable when triggering a polyphonic synth, but it is very apparent when triggering a mono synth. It appears in this mode both notes are being output so this does need to be addressed. Thanks for all the feedback here.
@DavidK this seems likely to be a MIDI routing issue in Logic and not a Scaler 3 bug. it sounds like you’re routing MIDI from a Scaler 3 track to another track hosting your plugin instrument.
If so, can you try using the Scaler 3 Control plugin as a MIDI effect in front of your legato instrument plugin and see if the behaviour continues?
I use Scaler 3 Control exclusively in Logic. I will occasionally fire up the standalone to test other things out. The only time I would use the VST instrument is in MuseScore but that is not currently compatible.
I do miss the Scaler 2 version that had the plugin identify which version was in use. That was less ambiguous.
For a test, I also tried it out in GarageBand which will use the AU but doesn’t have the Midi FX option so it should be using the plain AU version rather than the VST. The problem with the legato instruments shows up there as well.
OK, really weird update.
I was testing it out and it worked properly. I had previously been playing with D Dorian scale. I was curious and tried it this morning but got lazy and just chose C Dorian. The legato patches worked flawlessly.
Then, out of curiosity, I switched to the D Dorian scale and the problem comes back.
Apparently, it only happens in certain scales.