Hi there
I’am happy that this thread improved so much 
I’ll add my little ongoing test with a bit of fear that you, that are a lot more skilled than me, will drop rotten vegetables at me as in the famous scene of The Blues Brother’s movie… 
but I try all the same hoping my different approach can be useful
I searched on the web news about funk music, and found e.g. that
“The funk groove was pioneered by James Brown, duly recognised as the King of Funk.”
now, I have and listened most James Brown songs so I think I have the right ear for funky
another search retrieved:
“Funk, imo, is all about the attack, the transients of notes and subtlety in rhythm, ghosted notes. Generally, clean guitars, drums, bass, maybe a hornline, keys. Chords tend to be 7ths, 6ths, 9ths. There is a stereotype that guitars need wah/auto wah but that is not at all necessary.”
then I searched info about a very simple funk tune I have, James Brown’s Make It Funky, and I found this tutorial:
“The über-talented Ayla Tesler-Mabe (accompanied on percussion by Carson Gant) shows you the ESSENTIAL chords you need to start playing funk in only a few minutes, via the legendary James Brown and his guitarist Jimmy Nolen. The KEY funk chords you’ll learn are: Ab7 A9 Bbm6 C7 Eb13 E9 F#7 G9”
I tried those chords but found by ear that, at least in my mp3 version, 2 chords worked better: D6 and F6 (or some 9 versions maybe)
so I created the 2 chords in Scaler 2, used them to drive my AAS Strum-GS with a proper funky guitar groove, and it worked very well
the problem with AAS Strum-GS is that “grooves” are fixed, i.e. you cannot change them, and this is the field where Scaler may shine, but yesterday night it was too late to try to reproduce the same “groove” with Scaler, and even if I think that it is viable setting properly pauses, times etc, I don’t know when I’ll find some time so understand “how and how much well” I can do James Brown’s Make It Funky with the Edit option of Scaler
I’ll let you know