Minimize movement / chords cut off in suggest mode

When I select “Minimize Movement” in Suggest Mode, some of the suggested chords are cut off. These chords are still cut off when I drag them into the main track. On the Arrange page, however, they play correctly when I press play. Even if I drag the chords as midi from Scaler into my DAW. This problem occurs in Stand Alone as well as in Cubase 14.

I have attached an audio file in which you can hear how the chords are cut off. Minimized movement is disabled on the first chord.

minimized movement.zip (66.4 KB)

Hi @deleteallcharacters and welcome to the forum. Have you downloaded the laters update from your Scaler Music account and installed and restarted? Let us know if the problem persists as we can’t replicate this issue.

Hi Davide, thank you for your quick reply. I installed the latest update, version 1.0.7, but have experienced this issue since the first version of Scaler 3.

Attached to this message is a video showing the problem. I hope this helps you analyze the problem. The small audio dropouts are due to the capture
20250604.zip (6.4 MB)
software.

Ahh I think I found it, turning on Minimise Movement and playing suggested chords with no fifths or thirds plays them softly and cuts them off is that it? I have lodged this @Steven can we add to known issues please?

Maybe that’s just part of the issue. I made a new video in which you can see that chords without a fifth or third generally don’t seem to be the problem.

20250605_101800.zip (5.6 MB)

Thanks very much for the video and additional context - we’ve passed everything along to our dev team.

  1. Is this expected behaviour for Ideas when selecting Tonal. The second screenshot shows Ideas generated when selecting Per Scale.
  2. Audio for the ideas generated with Minimize Movement chosen chord audio is clipped. When Minimize Movement is turned off, the chord audio plays back correctly.

SC3.07 Standalone M2 Studio / Sonoma 14.7.4

Yes we’ve got this one it’s a known issue and we are investigating. Thanks for reporting:

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why when i go into suggest mode is the sustain on a 3rd of the suggested chords clipped short!! then when i move them to the c section they are still clipped. the only remedy is to hold down my sustain pedal which obviously bleeds all the chords into a sustained mess. why is this a thing? i cant be the only one with the issue.

Hi @MrBlueSky. Thanks for reporting – I’ve moved your post here. Just to check, do you have Minimize Movement enabled when you notice chords being cut off early?

If the issue occurs for you regardless of whether Minimize Movement is on or off, we may need to broaden our current investigation. Cheers.

Hello. Thanks for the update! But when we will see a fix in the chord suggestion area? When you grouping the voices (minimal movement) some chords sounds so silent and when you drag them to the DAW they triggered with some small notes in sequencer which sounds not right.. it’s really annoying bug :frowning:

Hi @Alexander, welcome to the forum. Thanks for your post – I’ve moved it here as I believe you’re referring to this bug. We’re aiming to fix it by mid-September. Appreciate your patience and support. Cheers.

Thank you very much for the reply. Waiting. Because it’s really boring…

Thank you for the update. Really waiting for this fix as well since it causes real usability issues with my personal workflow. Appreciate you guys and looking forward to the next release.

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Hello. September is here. New version of Scaler is here. This bug is still here… :frowning:

This is fixed. Not sure what you are seeing.

Hello David. Hm, thanks I will try to reinstall the plugin. Seems that something was wrong.