I was trying to make this BB King blues to play along on with my guitar, but I found it extremely difficult in Scaler 3, and I also had a crash YUK (I’ll report it quickly), so I decided to follow a different path
I assembled the chords very easily in Scaler 2, then I used Scaler Audio detector to have the same chords in Scaler 3, and I found then a suitable pattern for my piano
This is how I use Scaler 3 sketch page now. I totally missed how useful the many great creative modes hidden under the second tab are. YMMV. I also love Scaler 2 but at this point found pretty much everything I used it for is improved somewhere in Scaler 3.
mmm I skip always that page, LOL
I must rethink to it
anyway, I found SC2 faster to quickly add a few chords
I do things that are simpler than yours, and very rarely I need more than 6 chords
mainly because my keyboard is very little (32 keys only) so I risk losing the option to hit grace notes
Same. Scaler 3 is so deep I miss alot of what it can do.lol. It def rewards its own exploration sessions which I started doing this year. Now, it’s getting almost as simple to me as Scaler 2 was.
I also use a tiny 25 key Xkey Air controller most of the time with Scaler 3. I like to keep things simple and many times I only use Scaler 3 to come up with 4-6 chords as well. I just now discovered scenes and how great S3 is at arranging full composition in the past few weeks so am still getting familiar with that workflow.
At any rate, great example of using both in a pinch to get the job done. Whatever works is the best way many times .
mmm, a pianoforte has 88 keys that is 7 octaves… hard to play with just 2,5 octaves
and an Hammond plugin has even more: 2 x 61 keys
sure, I can use the octave switch, but it’s not convenient
on the other hand, I don’t have the space for a big keyboard, and I am not still sure I have a future as a piano player , so I keep my little toy at the moment
There is still a chance that if I fed up with the keyboards, and I come back to my plugins driven by Scaler
anyway, I think that all depends on the kind of musical work
you said you make soundtracks, and it seems to me that you use Scaler more like a programmer, so you don’t need to hit many notes on the keyboard
Indeed, which controller is best depends on the type of music or project you wish to create.
In addition to creating musical compositions with scaler using 25-49 key midi keyboards, I also use my Roland Aerophone digital sax to control scaler as Sax is the main instrument I’m trained on. As you may know, traditional sax is a rhythm instrument and as such cannot play chords—until wind synth x scaler. Now I can use it as a piano or guitar firing off all types of progressions which is magic because I know how to play every scale on sax backwards and forwards in an infinite amount of rhythms while also using my tongue and breath to modulate the sound. @davide and the scaler team would do well to feature wind synth players using Scaler to blow some minds on how it can be used on stage or in studio. Perhaps I know a guy.lol
I also use Scaler as a learning tool for guitar. Create cool progressions, flip keyboard to fret and learn to play the chords in real life. Just 3 months in with my new Fender Jazzmaster and I can already play full songs like a pro!
The sax… another instrument I’d wish to master, but impossible to me
I tried once, an elephant trumpet jumped out
I tried some plugins, the easier way was driving the Soundpaint’s with a bass plugin (I dropped a mini-tutorial here in the forum), but just to add something to a couple of funky vibes; abandoned the idea since then and forever
I am not a fan of robots, as you should have got, so I prefer using the real instrument when possible, and now I am practicing the guitar solos, using a child Ibanez axe, but I don’t care: many blues guitarists used axes way worse than mine
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, so I keep my little toy at the moment