Scaler 2 for iPad Has Changed The Game Forever | Overview

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Scaler 2 has changed the music theory game forever and now it’s finally available for the iPad. In this video we go over the most useful features including Audio / MIDI Detection, Chord Binding, Performances and more.
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Intro (0:00)
Adding Plugin (1:40)
UI Overview (2:09)
Audio & MIDI Detection (2:55)
Record MIDI To DAW (6:23)
Scales & Songs (8:59)
Chord Binding + Key/Voice Lock (12:28)
Performances (19:53)
SEQ - CHORD - PAD - MOD Pages (27:13)
Complaints / Suggestions (29:49)
Final Thoughts (31:36)
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[@johnviera3884]

I was on the fence. But now that it has presets from KZbinrs. I’m sold.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Hah I mean there's a ton of presets in there but yes also some from youtubers.

[@cytone101]

Thanks for creating this very good tutorial. It convinced me to purchase the app.

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're very welcome Mark I don't think you will regret it! It's just so fun sounding like a piano genius lol.

[@rheslip20]

I’ve watched most of the videos on Scaler 2 and this was the best so far. Very well presented - thank you for putting this together!

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thank you very much! Worked super hard on it :)

[@thomasipad7719]

Yes, it comes to the useful points quite fast. Other videos ... are spending more time on non-needed details.

[@user-uu5sg7ji7b]

Hi Vortex I really appreciate the work you do you know lots of stuff 😊😊😊

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much! Always happy to help :)

[@CharlieGrier]

Thanks! Hands down the best tutorial I have seen for Scaler 2 on iPad.

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're very welcome! :)

[@TheSemtexCow]

16:39 it was at this point my jaw hit the floor ❤. Thanks Vortex, great demo 👍👏👏👏.

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're very welcome!

[@stephanbrilmayer5427]

Watched some videos about scaler 2 so far but this one is definitely the best - thank you!

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much Stephan, we really enjoy Scaler, and it just keeps receiving more and more amazing updates!

[@SonicVibe]

I wanted to like this but I find the app confusing but people seem to love it

[@MobileMusicPro]

It really is an amazing app :)

[@alanr1062]

Excellent, you certainly taught me some new tricks. I love Scaler 2

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're welcome Alan! Really been enjoying my time with this app :)

[@monch1962]

Best Scaler 2 tutorial I've seen so far. I learned so much from this that I hadn't spotted in the app, despite being one of the beta testers! By the way, when you're syncing multiple instances of Scaler 2, you need to select one or more of the blacked out check boxes before clicking Sync. That seems to work fine for me

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much David! Oh holy smokes the sync worked!!!! I didn't even know those were checkboxes they're so tiny but yah once you check those you're good to go :)

[@luapmartin]

Hi Vortex, thanks for the review, glad you liked it! Cheers

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're welcome! I do love this app :)

[@antfan1905]

Thank you so much Vortex for introducing this game changing app. A lovely tutorial as well.

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're very welcome Alex! :)

[@MrRazman2112]

Really thorough explanation of this amazing app and I have all the other ones already Chordjam, Chord Polypad, all of them. I will be buying this app because it gives you so many things.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Yah no disrespect to those other apps it's just this one seems to really fit my workflow, basically everything on one screen with a only a few dropdowns, I love it.

[@JohnMark61355]

Thank you, I learned a lot. You are a good teacher.

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're very welcome Mark! Trying our best out here but getting better every year :)

[@alanr1062]

I’ve spent the past two days playing with the full version of Scaler 2 and I’m more than impressed. I’m intrigued to hear what you think of it 👍

[@MobileMusicPro]

It's crazy good Alan! Hope you enjoy the video :)

[@xphorm]

you must check what you want to be synced, to sync.

[@gunterstunter]

Is there a way to also view all the chords in a scale in a grid together (like the pad grid) instead of separated by the tabs? ( current tabs being the triad, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths etc) It would be much easier to see them all together on the same page in a grid laid out like the pad mode. They could be separated vertically by headers of the kind (triad, 7ths etc), rather than having to click through tabs continuously to find all the chords you like

[@MobileMusicPro]

Completely agree with you but in this app they are separated by tabs. There are of course many other competitive chord apps such as Progressions by 4pockets that you may find more useful. apps.apple.com/us/app/progressions/id1634378516

[@bryantwalley]

Hey man. Sorry I been missing the lives and premiers. I been having to watch them later in the evening. But I still been watching.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Very much appreciate the support Bryant! Looking forward to having you back when you can :)

[@bryantwalley]

@@MobileMusicPro in the video you asked if we saw any strange things with the app. I did notice pretty quickly that with the app open in standalone, on the main page, I can select a key then go to the “B” section. In this section I click the alternate tab and then click the play button in that section. It will begin playing through the alternate patterns but if you click one of the tabs to move to another grouping, say the 5 or 6 minor it just stops playback. Seems like everywhere else in the app things transition seamlessly. But in the main B section, it dies. You have to keep clicking the play icon to start it back up. It is easy to reproduce as it fails every time.

[@MobileMusicPro]

@@bryantwalley Very interesting thanks for this feedback Bryant!

[@vectorifix3218]

Great tutorial, good job!

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much!

[@JadeStarr]

Great tutorial Vortex!

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much Jade! Enjoyed yours as well! :)

[@fxdaly]

Excellent tutorial - well done.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much Frank!

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

Ah man I really like the track at 26:26 that's awesome.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much bro! Always love me some punk rock :)

[@realbano]

I just installed it and Wow ! It is really a gamechanger

[@MobileMusicPro]

I seriously love playing patterns in one hand and a melody in another, it's amazing! :)

[@realbano]

Yeah and it‘s just crazy how many great pattern there are. And I love the modulation feature… Finally an App where you can just say I want to move from C Major to F Major and it shows me straight up the chords how to get there… And it even has AUv3 support. Crazy good 😍 I guess your tutorial will be pretty long 😂 I‘ll watch it

[@MobileMusicPro]

​ @LetsRock-82- I just love it cause there's no need for randomization or a bazillion controls to mess with or a bunch of option screens, you just choose from some drop downs and get going all from the main screen.

[@matwardmusic]

Great video Vortex. At 31 minutes, to get it to sync, I think you need to select the bottom option ‘Entire State’? That’s what Doug Woods did in his Scaler 2 Cubasis video, no? He said it was really tricky to figure out.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Yah I didn't understand those were check marks lolol. Got another video where I explain that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHe7gYudhdGdeJo

[@matwardmusic]

@@MobileMusicPro I knew you would have figured it out. Thanks.

[@alejandrocortesvilches]

Very nice review, I'm enjoying scaler 2... but I would like the playback timing to not change when you replace a chord (secuncer page)... that affects our workflow... thanks, Vortex!

[@MobileMusicPro]

Ahh yes that makes total sense, loses all the custom chord info when you change it.

[@TyghtWayzTv]

Love da videos fam 💯🤙🏾

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks so much! This app is such fire :)

[@MarkBennett007]

Thank you

[@MobileMusicPro]

You're very welcome Mark!

[@user-qq7oi9kv2v]

Hi Vortex, and sorry if this is a dumb question but are you using Cubase or Cubasis here and what specifically is your favorite education resource for learning to work with Scaler 2 in Cubase and or Cubasis? Thank you

[@MobileMusicPro]

Everything on the channel is dedicated to the mobile version of Cubase which is Cubasis. The best resource for learning scaler is actually the creator of the product's youtube channel. He has regular videos showcasing new features and really does a great job at explaining it all.

[@user-qq7oi9kv2v]

@@MobileMusicPro thank you for the reply

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

Is scaler your favorite chord generating app? It's pretty confusing for me to use. I discovered you can just tap the chords in to play your own rhythm. Trying to understand how to manipulate the rhythm in scaler is what makes it too hard for me to get the best out of it.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Yah I do enjoy scaler, once you get used to the UI you can do things quite quickly including manipulate the rythm via the sequencer tab.

[@luk8e0]

Can you import third party chord sets?

[@MobileMusicPro]

Yes you can :)

[@itsaboutchina732]

Great demo, you gave me lots of new ideas. I wonder if I play my wind synth through Scaler2 will it pass through all the controller data?

[@MobileMusicPro]

That's a good question, scaler does accept pretty much all types of MIDI so I'd have to assume yes but I don't have a device to properly test it.

[@itsaboutchina732]

@@MobileMusicPro did the test today with my windsynth triggering the binded scale and CC#2 Breath and CC#11 Expression did not pass through :-(. I could work around this by recording the windsynth on a separate track that plays into a midi track with Scaler mfx on it and record both. Then copy the CC data from the windsynth “raw” track and paste it onto the recorded Scaler track. I also discovered that when you mute the chords in Scaler and you use a windsynth to play melodic lines on top it garbles the data going into your synth. I was using a SWAM trumpet, yet just using the Cubasis keyboard or Thumbjam (still one of my favorite controllers) it plays and transposes fine as the chords are being played.

[@MobileMusicPro]

@@itsaboutchina732 Very interesting! Thanks for this feedback :)

[@bosslenz2766]

Vortex, thanks a lot. I need to study what Scaler 3 does on the Mac. I can use the Ipad version to study. Any word on when Cubasis 4 is coming out?

[@MobileMusicPro]

Scaler is only on version 2 to my knowledge and a new version of Cubasis comes out every 3-4 years or so so probably in 2024 or 2025 at the latest.

[@bosslenz2766]

No Scaler 3 is available on the Mac. Plug-in Boutique just sent me an email. I don’t know Vortex, it seems like we’ve been on Cubasis 3 forever!

[@MobileMusicPro]

@@bosslenz2766 I can't seem to find scaler 3 on pluginboutique, the newest one says it's 2.6. Also ​Cubasis 3 was only launched in December of 2019 so basically we've only had it since 2020, not a very long time :) So I'm suspecting 2024ish most likely for Cubasis 4.

[@goactivemedia]

Just watching this video and on the strumming can it some how change the strumming so it is not so u-natural like when playing a real guitar and strumming I almost never play the same pattern that straight I would add in extra strums like passing strums as I got from one chord to another. Or strum 1 Normal but strum 2 is a slite different version of the strum then back to strum 1 all with in the same bars. With out this it dose not sound real for the strumming. Like a (strum down strum up) - (strum down strum up strum down strum up) - (strum down strum up) - (strum down strum up mute strum down strum up mute). Pattern Can you edit the strum pattern to do this kind of thing? You can do this is many Guitar plugins to get the strumming the way to want.

[@MobileMusicPro]

There are many different strumming patterns to choose from and you can switch them up from beat to beat and bar to bar with different patterns and speeds. There's also another app you may enjoy that does similar things called midi strummer by 4pockets.

[@goactivemedia]

@@MobileMusicPro midi strummer by 4pockets I will take a look at that. thanks

[@GaryR55]

If I use the audio mode, will I be able to use sounds from my keyboard (Casio CT-X700)?

[@MobileMusicPro]

If you want to trigger sounds from other apps and devices it's best to use the MIDI mode.

[@GaryR55]

@@MobileMusicPro Thanks!

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Useful vid Vortex! Long press in section A or C on individual chords to get a list of options, as you showed in the video, is not working for me. Any advice?

[@MobileMusicPro]

Thanks Gavinski! Oh man I must have been in SHIFT mode or something because yah it's not working for me now either, long tap to expose additional options seems to only work when you have SHIFT mode enabled and I guess it's just a regular tap not a long tap. Ahh I hate mistakes in my videos :(

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Ah, thnx a lot! Is that all described in the manual? I'm only part of the way through

[@MobileMusicPro]

@@GavinskisTutorials Yep the shift button is in there for sure.

[@thomasipad7719]

But the Steel Guitar sounds more like a Cembalo or other medieval instrument.

[@MobileMusicPro]

Hehe subjective I guess.

[@erhardfalkenberg4469]

Thanks for the nice content, but please can you speak a little less stakkato?

[@MobileMusicPro]

Hah

[@steviewondek]

Now everyone can make the same pretentious twaddle with no talent at all.

[@MobileMusicPro]

LOL sounds like someone is a little biased ;)

[@kh485]

Gotta go back to the 80’s when virtuosity mattered most😂

[@Luke-pn3dr]

Scaler 2 has a lot of SHITTY built in sounds that generate a TON of noise (especially on an ipad) and audio cracks. When you hold any note with these sounds, there is a ton of noise and weird compression sounds. It's awful and is a SHAME that a sound oriented plugin / software can't even handle the basic of all basics.

[@MobileMusicPro]

I certainly could not detect any issues with the built in sounds but most people use the app for the MIDI anyways. This software goes wayyyy beyond the basics for MIDI.

[@Luke-pn3dr]

@@MobileMusicPro well for Midi I agree, but 1. When in DAW, I can connect / route to other stuff and hear the chords on an instrument of my choice. The daw version sounds ok by the way. 2. When using it on an ipad, I would not agree. I use it on ipad to compose and generate ideas.. so I rely heavily on it’s built in sounds and it makes a hell of a problem to be able to hear a chord clearly when it sounds terrible. The ipad is for mobility when composing.

[@MobileMusicPro]

@@Luke-pn3dr Sorry to hear you're having issues with the built in sounds cause they do sound quite lovely to me but yah if you don't like them you for sure have to use your own sounds for coming up with ideas. Make sure to email the dev about the issue you're having, it's a super small team over there so they very much listen to feedback.

[@Luke-pn3dr]

@@MobileMusicPro well overall the tool is phenomenal, otherwide I wouldn’t buy it on both platforms. I did leave feedback in the app store. Hopefuly this is something that can get resolved. What ipad version you’re on and what ipad os version?

[@MobileMusicPro]

@@Luke-pn3dr Yah every app on the app store has a support link so make sure to click that and that should bring you to their support/feedback page. I'm still on 2018 pro with iOS 15.7.