Hi, I’m trying out the demo of Scaler 2.5, liking it so far but I have a question for when using a MIDI clip to drive scaler. So I have a MIDI clip on a track in Reaper. I add Scaler followed by a Lounge Lizard VSTi. Setup my chord progression in section C, no key binding. Set Scaler to sync an…

Hi ed66, Thanks for the info, I didn’t know about the section A transpose. However, that is for the built in clips. What I am hoping Scaler can do is to have a clip in the DAW (Reaper in my case) and have that transpose, on the fly, based on the chord progression. My apologies if I didn’t explain…

Muting Scaler is simple: just right-click on the SOUND SELECTOR [mute 1] and select OFF [MUTE 2]

It’s not the sound I want to mute, it’s the internal MIDI for the chord. I already have the sound set to off. But I have my VSTi (Lounge Lizard) that the output from scaler is playing. I found info in this post which I thought might be the answer, but it messes with the MIDI coming into Scaler from…

Let me clarify, do you mean that you do not want Scaler to play chords, but you want it to output the root of each chord to the VSTi (i.e. if Scaler has a C maj chord you want it to output just C and not CEG)?

Ha, no. Cleary I’m finding this difficult to explain. Once more unto the breach :grinning: I am also testing Rapid Composer (RC). In RC the same sequence will be changed depending on the chord at that point in the track. So If I have the same 1 bar sequence copied to 4 bars, and each bar has a dif…

I’m not familiar with RC so I’ll have to look into the functionality you are describing, but it sounds as if you want Scaler to detect your midi input, follow it and in real time output midi to your VSTi.

Yes that is kind of it, though I want the midi input to be matched to the chord progression, not the other way round. Okay I need to sign off now. Thanks again, ed66, for your efforts, will check back in tomorrow. Cheers.

No this is not how Scaler works. I use Rapid Composer as well. It deals with chords in 2 ways - Absolute and Relative. Absolute setting means the pitches of the MIDI are used to output the chord information. i.e. an Amin MIDI chord will output as an Amin chord. In Relative Mode it uses the Chord set…

As I am not familiar with either Reaper or Rapid Composer, I am going to bow out from this thread.

MIDI Clip input follow chord without chord playing

Scaler 2 General Discussion

ed66 May 10, 2022, 4:57pm 2

HI Aspects_of_Tone

Welcome to the forum. I’ve just uploaded a short tutorial here, which I hope will help you.

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MIDI Clip input follow chord without chord playing

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