Scaler 3 arranger midi drag

Scaler 3 General Discussion
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Hello there, I am having an issue with dragging the Scaler 3 arrangements into my DAW (Mixcraft 10.6 Pro Recording Studio build 635). The DAW and the Scaler 3 are up to date. I HAVE TRIED THIS BOTH WITH USING THE STANDALONE VERSION AND FROM WITHIN THE DAW AND GOT THE SAME RESULTS.

The dragging itself works fine. For example, when I drag the midi tracks from the arranger section into the daw, it creates a separate track in my daw for each midi track off the Arrangement; however when I play the midi tracks from the file, it only defaults to the existing piano sound that my daw uses. In other words, after dragging the arrangement tracks from Scaler 3 arrangement midi window into my daw, the existing instruments with the arrangement does not carry over and this is a big problem. When I am composing something in Scaler 3 arrangement screen, it can take hours to find a specific instrument that will fit the sound I like and when this is not carried over into the daw while dragging and defaults to a basic daw sound, it can take hours to re open an instrument track, launch scaler 3 within the daw, find the same instrument and try to redo all over again. Picture below says it all. Note the scaler 32 plugin instrument arrangement in the mixer I circled in red and the dragged midi in the daw itself. WHen I click play in the plug in screen, it plays all of the innstruments within the scaler plugin screen, but the midi in the daw only plays piano (not the scaler piano, the deaults daw piano instrument)

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Hi @korgbest6, welcome to the forum and thanks for your post. What you’re experiencing is expected behaviour. Scaler 3 works as a plugin within your DAW, so when you drag MIDI into your DAW, it won’t automatically carry over Scaler’s sounds or third-party plugins.

Here’s a possible workflow idea:

  • Compose in Scaler 3 as you have been, using third-party instruments.
  • Note any factory presets that work well with your arrangement/parts, or save any customised sounds as your own presets.
  • When you’re ready, drag the MIDI into your DAW as you’ve done, and then load the respective factory/user presets onto the appropriate tracks.
  • If there’s an internal Scaler 3 sound you like for a specific track, just load a new instance of Scaler 3 on that track.

Hope that helps, cheers.