I’m trying to replace a chord by dragging the new chord over the chord I want to replace but it’s not working. I can only place it inbetween two chords. What I see in the tutorial videos is that an outline should appear arround the chord I drag it over, but I only get the vertical line between chords. What am I doing wrong?
On Windows here. I was able to get the chord to replace after some different attempts. By carefully dragging the new chord over the existing one and sliding slightly to the right (almost halfway) until the chord to be replaced had white border around all sides, it would work.
Hello @Maarten_Albers and welcome to the forum.
@EdZbflat, yes, this is the correct way to do the replacement. As you mentioned “slightly to the right”. It works also by sliding a bit to the left. The position of the cursor is important. When you see it exectly between two chords, it will be inserted.
If over a chords (no cursor visible), the chord will be replaced.
With some practice, I made it work 
This is the video with these examples (left, then right, to insert, then over the chord to replace. I moved chords quite slowly for pedagogical reasons
Thanks guys. Eventually I was able to do it. It seems that the chord I wanted to replace was having trouble with a tool-tip pop up. But it’s not as responsive as you would like. It seems also the vertical line doesn’t want to loose focus once it’s showing…
I am unable to position the cursor over the chord, because the cursor is snapping to the grid. I can only insert before or after.
I know that this is not intuitive, but it works. Just move the chord slowly and you’ll be able to do this correctly. In fact, as I show in the clip, you should see the entire border of a chord highlighted, instead of the cursor. This happens a little bit after you cover half of the chord to be replaced. That’s when I “jump” up and down with chord. This, of course, is just to show you the situation, it is not necessary to really “jump” to replace a chord 
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Regarding dragging and dropping chords, I think an snapping effect could be added. When I place a new chord on top of another chord and want to replace it, there should be a snapping feeling as I drag the mouse over. This would help prevent such mistakes.At first, I was also troubled by the chord replacement in SCALER 3.0, which was very uncomfortable. In fact, in Scaler 2, dragging and dropping chords was very smooth.
Try as I might, I am really struggling with this, especially if the chord I am trying to replace is say 3 or 5 beats long, rather than 4. I can just about get it to work if it is a simple 4 beat chord, but I simply cannot replicate the behaviour shown in the getting started tutorial video for S3 on YouTube.
Seems to only work if the chord is precisely on the bar. If you make it start for example 1/8 earlier, you can’t replace it. Moving it around goes from inserting it to placing a new one on top.
Same here, don’t know how he did it in Scaler 3 Tutorial 1 13:50 Min.
I can’t replace a chord after I made changes in the Arranger page. When Drag & Drop, it adds the chord from the B section to the C section instead of replacing the chord I hover over. Same behavior on PC and iPad.
So try the following.
- Open new project.
- Add 2 chords to the C section.
- Go to go to the Arranger Page and change Grid from 1 Bar to 1/4.
- Resize the 1st Chord to 1/4 & the 2nd Chord to 7/4 = 2 Bars.
- Go back to the Browser Page
- In the C section. try to replace either the 1st Chord (1/4) or the 2nd (7/4) with on of the chords (4/4) from the B section.
Game Over for me lol. Using Scaler 3.2.1.
Hi @KeyHug And welcome to the community. Thank you for the detailed steps for us to follow. You are correct. When a chord Division is less than a beat dragging from Section A or B will not replace the chord without altering the length. Works as expected when replacing from Section C. This is being looked at now as part of our Scaler 3.3 release. Thanks for reporting.
good news indeed
pixel-peeping was a nightmare in Point & Click videogames also 