I feel I must respond to a couple of @swingmix 's comments.
I do not find the EDIT page unwieldy, in fact I believe it follows good design practice in that it groups a related set of processes (editing individual blocks) together. The only slightly inconvenient thing is having to open separate panels for each of the editing sections - voicings, timings and performances. But it is only one click. This could be mitigated by using hot keys or jump menus ut that is still one click so…
If you wanrt to make the same edit to more than one block simply select the blocks and make the edit once. I am not sure what is so unwieldy about this.
If you are adding performances to blocks in the PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE panel that too is very easy.
How do you, @swingmix, think it could be improved? I know you have suggested being able to subdivide blocks, and maybe this could be achieved through a jump menu to the Edit page, or right-click to show the timings edit list from the EDIT page
But will that be any easier than going to the EDIT page to edit the timings?
That will still leave 8 blocks in a pattern . but I think there is a good reason for this: over 50 % of western music is based on patterns that are multiples of 2 - usually 2, 4 or 8. Occasionally the patterns are longer than 8 but that is unusual, at least in classical, folk, country, pop, rock, blues, and even jazz.
I find some other programs unwieldy (e.g. BIAB), but that is because I have not invested any time in them so I am not familiar with them (nor have I invested any money: I haven’t got BIAB but looking at it I do not want to get it as Scaler does everything I want. That is not to say that BAIB is not good, it is probably better than Scaler at some things, but it is simply not on my wish list)
I think this shows how versatile Scaler is as their uses of Scaler evolves. There are videos that show you how to make a whole song in Scaler, and it doesn’t seem to be too difficult or time consuming to do so.
As most songs only use a few phrases albeit with variations (unless it is a symphony or long jazzy improv’ based thing) I think they can be accommodated by Scaler. But as I said elsewhere
This could help in allowing more harmonic or melodic variations on a theme.