Okay, I just tried it again, and it’s working for me. I’m in Studio One, and I don’t know Bitwig, but hopefully it will be clear and work for you.
You’ll see I have a DAW screen open, with two tracks open. The top track, labeled “Scaler 3,” is for my rhythm accompaniment. The bottom track, labeled “Track 2,” is for my solo.
I have two instances of Scaler 3 loaded, one on each track. (You said you didn’t need multiple instances in Scaler 2, but I used them all the time in Scaler 2 for just this purpose - to Live Sync different tracks with different instruments, different expressions, etc.)
On the left instance of Scaler 3, I’ve set up a chord progression (the first eight bars of “I’ve Got Rhythm”). The arrow is pointing from the Main Track in the mixer to the track setup in my DAW. It shows that I’ve loaded Scaler 3’s internal Electric Piano for my accompaniment. It also shows I have not armed this DAW track. What that means is, when I press play in my DAW, Scaler 3’s piano chord progression is what will play on this track. But if I play my keyboard, I will not get any sounds on this track. (You’ll see I’ve bound the keys on this instance of Scaler 3. I’ll return to that below.)
On the right instance of Scaler, I have set up a Main Track and loaded an external instrument, a Spitfire Labs trumpet. You’ll see I have selected Bb mixolydian as my scale - a good blues scale - and I have key-locked that scale to the white keys. The arrow shows that this instance of Scaler is loaded on my DAW’s second track, and that track is armed. This means that when I play my white keys, they are giving me trumpet notes in Bb flat mixolydian, and I can hear them.
So with this setup, when I press play in my DAW, I hear Scaler 3’s piano accompaniment (which I’ve set up to repeat) and I can solo with the trumpet on my keyboard. My keyboard does not trigger chords, because the DAW’s chord track, Track One, is not armed. If I arm that track, then my keyboard will trigger both chords (on the bound keys) and notes.
This allows me to record my solo, simply by pressing “record” in my DAW.
Notice I did not have to go into settings at all to set this up.
Also worth noting: Locking keys in this way is not great for jazz or blues improv, because you can’t go outside your scale - for example, to get both flat-3rd and major-3rd. But if you turn off keys-lock, you have all your keys to play with.
I hope this helps clarify! Best wishes to you!