# New Features - Youtube Update Videos and feature lists **URL:** \ **Category:** Scaler 2 Tutorials\ **Created:** [December 26, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.scalermusic.com/t/new-features-youtube-update-videos-and-feature-lists/747 "2018-12-26T07:36:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Hi all, here’s some youtube links to the Scaler Update videos demoing all the new features of Scaler over its development cycle: ``` Scaler 1.1 ``` Scaler 1.2 Scaler 1.5 Scaler 1.6 **Changelog** _Scaler 1.6_ • Improved Drag & Drop - Export strums and arpeggio simply by dragging a chord or progression to your DAW. • Scale Lock - New Scale-Lock mode - Map any scale to the white keys • 10 New Chord Sets - Cinematic - Horror & Suspense • Arpeggio Sync - Arpeggio now syncs with your DAW • 2 New Sounds - Electric Piano & Brass Ensemble • Improved Strumming - Set your preferred strumming direction (Alternate/Up/Down) & discover a new (slower) strumming profile. • Bug fixes and performance improvements _Scaler 1.5_ • Chord Editing - Create or edit any chord in Scaler and create your own voicing. • Light UI Skin - A light, clear coloured skin if you wish to change from the default dark look of Scaler. • 31 New Chord Sets - Cinematic, Joseph Greer, The Temper Trap, Mitekiss, Matt Ridgway • 4 New sounds - String Ensemble, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonic Guitar • Guitar Fretboard visualisation (with support for 20+ tunings) - Display notes, chords and scales on a guitar fretboard to help you learn or find voicing for your favourite guitar tracks. • Arpeggiator - A fully featured arpeggiator with support for 3 patterns (Up, Down, UpDown), 5 timings (from whole note to 16th with dotted and triplets variants) and a latch function. • Strumming - Simulate a strum on a guitar with 3 different playing profiles (slow, medium, fast). • Parallel Harmony - Generate a progression from a single chord over 2 octaves in a few clicks. • Multi Selection of chords - Pick and choose any chord in any order and drag them to your progression for an even faster workflow. • Scale Lock - Lock all the notes out of the current selected scale to ensure you are always in key when playing melody and chords. • Relative chord finder - Generate a progression to a specific interval easily even without any music theory knowledge • 32 chords in progression - Scaler now supports up to 32 chords in the progression builder to allow for more experimentation and variations in your tracks. • Undo-Redo in progression - Experiment with confidence and revert your changes at any time • Bug fixes and performance improvements _Scaler 1.2_ • 20 New Chord Sets - Classical, K-J Pop, Neo-Soul • 11 new Scales - Lydian augmented scale, Acoustic scale, Major locrian scale, Ukrainian dorian scale, Hungarian gipsy scale, Melodic minor scale (asc), Half-diminished scale, Phrygian dominant scale, Persian scale, Neapolitan major scale, Neapolitan minor scale • Settings Popup - New centralised settings panel • Humanize velocity - Provides a more natural playing style by slightly randomising the velocity of each notes in the chord. • Triggered note duration control with mouse click • Export note duration option - Quickly change the duration of your chords before exporting the midi of your progression to your DAW. • 16 chords in progression - Scaler now supports up to 16 chords in the progression builder. • Progression Builder Tempo - Scaler now plays your progression at DAW tempo • Midi Panic Button - Send “all notes off” message easily to get rid of hung notes when controlling an external instrument. • New chord set export format - Improve compatibility, modification and facilitate sharing of your chord sets. • Bug fixes and performance improvements _Scaler 1.1_ • 12 New Chord Sets - EDM, DnB • MIDI CC pass through - Scaler now let all midi events pass through to allow for better control of external instruments • Bug fixes and performance improvements Scaler 1.0 • Initial release