I used Scaler 2 a lot to come up with perfomance progessions on the fly from the midiclip that was on the the track in Ableton. I only had to push the button capture midi and after that drag the perfomance that followed the midi into a seperate track. That a very fast and great tool to come up with the greatest midiclips.
I have not found a way to do that at all in Scaler 3. It does allow performance mode, but there is no possible midi output? I can’t capture it in Ableton, nor is there a record or a drag button for the midi information.
On the main track of Scaler, there are more perfomance options, which are nice. But they only work if Scaler understands the chords.
I used to just use a cool midi clip that could change notes within the bar and Scalers magic worked great there. I seem to have lost that in Scaler 3. Is that coming maybe?
Maybe there are already topics on this, i’m sorry if i missed them.
If you are on the arrange tab, you should be able to just drag the individual performance clips from your S3 tracks directly into your DAW tracks. It seems to work fine on Studio One.
It is possible if there are chords on the main track. But i want it to behave like in Scaler 2. It did not need chord information, it just performed the midiclip that was on the track.
I have changed your title as it’s not relevant to your post. Please ensure you read our guidelines before posting. You are asking, where is MIDI Capture? Hit the Record Button and you will find it. Please do check our official tutorials and the manual. Also note our known issues here
And i’m sorry for my wording, i actually love Scaler 3!
Apart from that, no that was not what i was asking. I am able to capture midi. The workflow in Scaler 2 was just a bit different. I tried to describe. Maybe it is in the scope of the coming updates. I could not figure it out, maybe because english is not my first language.
Thank you for taking the time and a great product, that i use daily!
We’d like to help you but need to better understand you. There is a performance mode where you can trigger the main track just like you would in Scaler 2. Turn of DAW Sync and write trigger notes in your DAW. Maybe this video will help?
Hi Davide. @6:58 in this video you create a performance
track of trigger notes in Logic. In Scaler 2 you could save this
performance to a midi clip using the ‘midi capture’ button
located in the lower left corner of the Scaler 2 interface.You
could drag the performance ‘chorded’ midi from the “drag” area beneath the midi capture button. This functionality
appears to have been deprecated. thank you!
Hi @prole33 Welcome to the forum. MIDI Capture is there in the Record Button / Dropdown menu. There are some known issues with it resolved in an 3.1 update coming in a few weeks!
Yes but once you record the track in performance mode, how do we put the timing of what I just recorded back into scaler so I can a bass or arp track that follows the chords (as I recorded them as one note cords in performance mode)?
Not sure if it’s helpful, but as per my post above there is known issue with timing and MIDI capture that is now fixed in Scaler 3.1 due in a couple of weeks
Yea, I’m not sure how they released this product with this bug. I almost feel like they should make 2 separate plugins, one for live players (one note chords) and one for mouse and preset people, because it’s very hard to do both.
I’ve been really surprised how many folks are using Scaler to play live and I wonder if Davide and the team are the same. I imagine most of the testing was not from a live viewpoint.
I’ve always seen S2 as a “static” composition tool. I uses it in the early stages of a song but once the arrangement is sorted everything gets converted to MIDI and S2 is unloaded (I archive the project first so I can return to it if I need to but that is very rare).
using the one note chord and recording my own chord rhythms and then adding a melody over it that is locked to scale or chord notes for arpeggiators is all I ever needed scaler for. To me, it’s so much easier to play it all in, then to arrange stuff in a window and then drag. That’s what I have a daw for.
I think Davide’s workflow is heavily by working in Logic–which allows for creating a midi player plugin above each track with no routing. Much simpler than ableton!
