MIDI Export - Scaler 3 v1.0.7

I would have included images that perfectly illustrate this issue, but apparently I can’t do that! :thinking:

In measures 4 & 5 of the Main Track of the standalone version of Scaler 3, the first measure (m. 4) has an Am7 for the first two beats and D for the second two beats followed by Bm for the entire next measure (m. 5).

I have “Common Perf 2” selected as the Motion. When I play it in Scaler (at least until it crashes!), it plays the appropriate notes for the indicated chords. However, if I export the MIDI and load it into a MIDI track on my DAW, a couple of errors occur.

  1. The Am7 does not have the 7th (G), it’s just an Am chord.
  2. All of the chords have a duration of four beats even though the first two are supposed to be only 2 beats long. Thus, the Am chord overlaps the D chord and the D chord overlaps the first two beats of the Bm chord.

This problem is in addition to the crashes that occur when I try to select more than one chord in the Main Track in the Standalone version and the multiple DAW crashes I have when using the plugin version. I thought by working in the standalone and then exporting the MIDI, I could avoid all the plugin issues I’ve been having while you all work on an update, but now I find I can’t even do that without having to spend huge amounts of time editing that export. Needless to say, I’m pretty frustrated right now that I spent good money on what is so far a worthless product for me.

Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022), OS 15.5, 128GB RAM, Digital Performer 11.3.4, Scaler 3 v1.0.7ad51f1c following a clean install as recommended in one of the other support threads on this forum.

Hi @bkshepard, thanks for the detailed report and apologies for the delayed response.

This MIDI export behaviour doesn’t appear to be present in Scaler 3.2. There have been a number of improvements since version 1.0.7.

If you’ve updated to Scaler 3.2 and are still seeing unexpected MIDI export results, please let us know and we’d be happy to take another look. Thanks again for helping us improve things.