Scaler 3 Official Announcement and Teaser

Today I had to work, but rest assured that I’ll try that tomorrow
good night

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I just tried. I have Arturia Keylab MKII and M-Audio sustain pedal and - this works fine while I play and also when I reproduce the recorded sequence.
This is the proof.

Myy DAW is Reaper 7.3 on Win11.

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I have a Behringer Swing keyboard, and an Alesis ASP-2 pedal

My DAWs are Bitwig 5 Producer and Cantabile

It works in both DAWs…

maybe that you pedal is just faulty?
have you tried with a deoxidizer for electronics?

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Hmm, very interesting indeed.
I appreciate you taking the time to check it out on your end.
Confusing that Tristan said they were able to reproduce the bug at their end.

I will take your suggestion on board and assume it may be a faulty piece of kit but it still could be hardware and DAW dependent which means I am going to very much be in the minority.

Cheers again @ClaudioPorcellana!

I noted a strange thing anyway
every time I pressed the pedal, the played note became all blue, instead of remaining white, and that note became white again after I clicked it without the pedal pressed; I don’t know if it is relevant for you

Anyway what Tristan said is strange as well…
At the end, a classical case of cybersorcery :grin:

After watching the Prerelease Reaveal 2 video (sorry to say this, but the information trickles in way too slowly for my taste), and really liking the “Color” mode improvements… very important question for @davide

Will there be a new Scaler Full Course video series?

Hi @StudioCompyfox Yes but will come a month or two after release.

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One thing is clear…

With video number 2 about the new functions related to the chord circle and the new editing and progression possibilities… YOU HAVE OVERCOMED YOURSELF!!
I’m looking forward to number 3, and being able to see if pattern editing really exists in the “motions” section.

Thank you very much, keep it up…Team

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Oh and yes sorry a little late here but here is the Prerelease Reveal 2: Create Page video:

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So @davide — unless this is part of the “Explore” section… what about adding a Progression Flow Chart as brought up in this post?

And will Scaler 2.9.x still see a final patch post v3 release - for longevity purposes? (also - to address the slow UI response)

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Yes but will come in later. We will launch with several creative and tutorial videos and supporting documents so I would imagine we would cover most features (as we have done with Scaler 2).

Haven’t considered that to be honest. Scaler 2.9.1 is in a great place. There’s a few nitpicks here are and there but it feels very stable and good for me and from our experience the vast majority of our users. Certainly I don’t know of slow UI response being a reported issue. Sure there are always edge cases but we tend to address anything that gets reported by a few people.

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I asked about this before (in this thread) - could this slowdown be related to certain old CPU’s that the UI is really responding slow and sluggish? That’s my only concern right now.

Other than that… you already answered my question regarding a “Scaler 3” course, @davide – but I posted a FR with post 53 - about Chord Progression Flow Charts.

I don’t know if my problem is related to yours, but doubling the RAM in my old Dell (5 generations old) PC improved a lot of things in music
my 2 cents

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Worth of trying. I did the same and since then, no lagging even with my most demanding plugins.

WAAW ! I am almost speechless.
When I see scaler 3.0 i see, thank heaven, an evolution of the core idea of scaler.
It’s great to see that it does not become a clone of other systems , another me too , and stays at it’s core, helping making music , starting with chords and keys/modes.
All functions have been extended and implemented in a more dynamic way , users can create their own ‘extensions’.
I have really a lot of plugins. Because they all shine in one area and are limited in others. I use them , each for their unique capabilities.
If my PC would crash and I need to reinstall all my VSTs… Scaler would be the first to be installed.
GOOD JOB !!
PS / Hint : I am so looking forward to create / edit custom motions and I would concentrate massively on this as a beta tester !

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This rig I’ve recently re-installed it/Scaler v2.9.x on (Triple Channel RAM) is actually shy of 6GB of being maxed out (it’s a weird number, this this was also a very specialized rig, and it has enough headroom for both the OS and various VSTi/VST plugins)… no relation to the problem. And in my 20+ years of working with software, “more RAM” isn’t a solution – unless we talk samples and 32bit environment (which limits you to use no more than 4GB of RAM), or you starved your DAW at 8GB even though the OS needs 4GB alone, your main host wants another 4GB.. .then there is nothing much headroom left. Scaler 2 doesn’t even “eat” more than 1GB into RAM, and it’s also x64 - so there is no RAM limitation. And with running 18GB on this particular rig, there is also enough headroom for a lot of other things. It must be something different that I didn’t find the source of yet – hence me asking for “are certain CPU routines needed?!”. Windows has also been weird with UI handling since AERO (Win7), wouldn’t surprise me if this is somewhat related.

Checked the Scaler 2 course videos again… you can see this especially in the “Module 1” videos - UI (animations and edit window switching) also behaves slowly as well on a probably very powerful Mac this was recorded on. I can try on another rig that is merely 4 generations “old” (10th Gen Intel i9), but I don’t think I’ll see any significant difference.

I have the wildest array of tools at my disposal, some with some crazy UI animations, or some plugins basically stealing UI resources from other UI’s that are open until you close the particular offender. Still, none of them lag this badly (iLok is a different topic - but again, not related to this particular case) or are slow in terms of UI transitions while switching between sub-menu windows.

I can still work with Scaler 2 - but yes… switching between edit windows or performance modes sure was/is a pain. I just hope v3 addresses this, or lets us turn off animations.

I’ve watched these reveal videos 2 or 3 times and it seems to me that everything is going to be easier, I’ve been using Scaler for a few years now and still get lost in some of the menus but that might be down to my senior moments :joy:. So far I’m really impressed and look forward to the next installment. Credit to all the team working on this.

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New video showing the first glimpse of the Arrange Page. Plenty more to come there! Thanks @Tristan

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This is all looking very slick, really very pleased with what i’m seeing in the reveals.

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Logic can already do the same thing.