What makes this video so worthwhile is the fact that it's bringing Scaler2 more into the everyday, practical realm of operation. This is a great reference video for those of us who use Scaler2 a little less frequently than we'd like to admit! Thanks so much for such a helpful video, Tristan!

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim, more videos inbound.

@FateGathersStudios

Жыл бұрын

I agree, I bought it just for the scales really, but it has blown my mind.. I have never captured audio, now i'm psyched

Great video Tristan and really impressive guitar mastery! Lovely to see Scaler doing its job!

I had already purchased Scaler 2, and later stumbled upon this nice tutorial/example. Great job. Looking forward to learning how to use this tool.

Bravo, dude!!! I never thought about this. Thank you for the instruction!!!

Sounds awesome brilliant video thank you. Scaler's audio detection is another great feature in this great software

So much inspiration here! I cant wait to try the tab view to add some live guitar to my piano chords. Thanks

Workflow is excellent. I’ve just written down the steps for future song writing, as I use guitar as a starting point for most of my creations. Thank you!

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and thanks for feedback.

Just the video I needed to make the most of Scaler! Thank you!

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

About time we focussed on guitarists. Tristan is a gun we are glad to have him as part of SOS and the Scaler team!

Thanks for the inspiration. One of the best Scaler videos I’ve seen.

i requested this some time ago, thank you so much for this! means and helps me a lot

Sir this is awesome. Thank you for your lovely production. 🙏🏻💝

Very useful and simple video, thank you for sharing

This is incredible. Exactly what I was looking for.

That was terrific, thank you. 👍

Very helpful video, very informative. Thanks

No one could explain as much and clearly as this wonderful man did. Thank you 👍👍👍

@SchoolofSynthesis

7 ай бұрын

So nice of you. We love Tristan here at SOS he is wonderful! Glad it was helpful.

Excellent overview Tristan, many thanks

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback!

Brilliant! 👍

That was cool. Thanks for this video tutorial

Very well made tutorial! Thank you

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Too good D! That’s epic! 💥

Awesome! 👍🏻

Can’t help but think of Wild Blue by John Mayer while listening to this tutorial, amazing!

This is really going to change songwriting for guitarists.

Oh my god .. the video I didn't even know I needed lol

Awesome. More examples with Logic Pro? A little bit slower, thanks for such a useful video.

Really hoping for follow up videos. As a guitarist with limited keyboard skills this is really useful information😁

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Tristan will do more vids on the guitar! Thanks for watching.

@matthewchunk3689

Жыл бұрын

@@SchoolofSynthesis Also looking forward to more. scalar guitar tutorials. Thanks!

very very nice

Nice ! ry interesting ! the same in studio one please ! may be i will prctice the workflow

very very handy.

Great video. Thanks. How can I use Scaler to play a guitar VST like Ample guitar or Ujam on a MIDI keyboard controller? Do you have a video on that?

You can use Scaler to play any midi instrument (s) in Ableton too (not less than in Logic from what I understand)

Thank you Tristan Sir, I have a question though. How to do all these in Logic Pro x, please...

I got Scaler 2 today

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Nice job Morten, don't forget to join the community over at forum.scalerplugin.com

Thanks for sharing this; Scaler is awesome. It would be nice if the volume of the built-in sounds of scaler could be changed - it's very quiet compared to any other sound, so simply turning up the master volume is not really an option.

@jimrogers7425

Жыл бұрын

Use a compressor on any of those tracks and use the makeup gain as a way of bringing up the overall signal level and that should solve your problem.

@McCnutty

Жыл бұрын

@@jimrogers7425 the only workaround I can think of is to record your guitar track then export it as a .wav file then you can drag the audio file onto Scaler to detect it. Pain in the arse though.

@kas36spires

Жыл бұрын

Just add a gain plugin on the scalar track

Thx for this video! I am using Scaler together with guitar and this is just what I was looking for! I have a question though: Scaler records the recognized chords from the audio. But it doesn't seem to record how long that chord is played. So how can I create f.e. a midi track that is "in sync"? When I play back the chord progression only it is out of sync with the audio. Or did I miss something?

@nigelsmith3884

Жыл бұрын

have you enabled scaler to be in sync with your DAW so it’s in time with the clock?

@duesenberger

Жыл бұрын

@@nigelsmith3884 Yes, I have. But Scaler doesn't seem "to record" the timing, it only collects the chords, which is btw. a great feature.

@nigelsmith3884

Жыл бұрын

@@duesenberger ahh ok. couple of things you can do. if you drop the chords into the bottom pattern area you can change the length, octave etc. alternatively, drag and drop the chords into your DAW on a separate midi track with your VST of choice and you can then quantise the progression and play with the note lengths to humanise it a bit more. hope this helps :)

Great video man. What I would like to know is could you control N.I Strummed Acoustic on the fly so that you can change the chords inside of scaler as opposed to changing chords and then having to drag them out again etc?

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Of course, just use the Voice Grouping profile in Scaler which matches the NI Instrument trigger range (C2-B3 from memory or could be C3-B4) and throw whatever chords from within Scaler to NI Strummed Acoustic!

Thank you for the video so far. And thank you for accidentally reminding me that I can just hum audio into scaler to have it detected. Duh!

@SchoolofSynthesis

3 ай бұрын

Audio detection in Scaler 2.9 release April 24th is much improved

Could have been a great tutorial but mostly the biggest part of the screen is covered by ableton live. I wish you could do that tutorial in standalone mode of scaler 2. For a new scaler 2 users it is also sometimes not clear if a feature belongs to scaler 2 or abletons daw.

Got some "Losing My Religion" vibes!

I've been debating Scaler 2 and this video helps. At 9:54 you mention using a guitar plug-in. Can you say which one you use? Thanks in advance.

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Hi Devin. The guitar plug-in used is Native Instruments’ Session Guitarist Strummed Acoustic. Works great with Scaler 2!

It seems like Scaler Audio and Waves doesn't get along in Ableton. I have had a few crashes since using Scaler Audio. MIDI seems to work fine.

Awesome it is. But - For Non Instrument Players Guitar or Piano - There is a Chasm Say for now impossible to cross. How then would one use Scaler 2 and get the exact outcome. It will be more than Awesome if you could suggest a Solution - Specially how to get the Finger Picking Pattern incorporated into the Notes Playing and Also Strumming Pattern used e.g Up / Down Strokes and the Strings being Played in the chords (Without having to play guitar or keyboard) . Many Many Thanks.

@nigelsmith3884

Жыл бұрын

you can do this by using the performance section of scaler and using your chord progression to create phrasing and arpeggiation. you could run multiple instances of scaler and either use the built in guitar effect, or route to an external instrument like kontakt, which was used in the video. you can do all of this without even picking up an instrument.

@vivektyagi6848

Жыл бұрын

@@nigelsmith3884 Many Thanks. I'll give it a try.

Please add 7 string support with real custom tuning (I do step down all strings)

How would I get the Scaler 2 bass part into my DAW? (loving scaler 2!)

@SchoolofSynthesis

5 ай бұрын

You could use midi capture (the button bottom right) and drag and drop straight to you your DAW. Or with Bass performance on just drag all the chords straight to your daw! Feel free to join the community over at forum.scalerplugin.com for help from the great Scaler community over there!

Thanks. I noticed the Guitar charts view are highlighting in your playback but there not doing so for me 2.7. Is there a button to switch this on/off smwh?

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Yes they are also doing so in 2.7. You either need to be triggering the chords or be in DAW Sync mode (right click on the play button in section C). If you need any other help head over to forum.scalerplugin.com

@PromoMIAR

Жыл бұрын

​@@SchoolofSynthesis Strange. DAW sync mode helps. It highlights but not accurately. Its out of sync. Looping 3 simple chords here and it only highlights 2 of them. Thanks. Yes I posted it there too. No replies yet.

I do not use Ableton so i do not understand how to get it to work.

@dogman5680

Жыл бұрын

Any DAW (digital audio workstation) will work, GarageBand or Cubasis (on iPad )for example. Though I think it needs to be said that the audio detection is the weakest feature in scaler 2 compared to midi input. In fact I haven’t had any success with it…

Great video. I've learnt quite a bit from that. However, I use Studio One 5 and I'm struggling to figure out how to capture the audio from my guitar with audio detection. I'm not sure it's even possible with Studio One

@timspencer1

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried setting sidechain to the audio track your guitar is connected to? Not tried this myself yet, but also a S1 user and wondering how this works... perhaps you can set audio inputs directly in scaler?

@DevinGalaudet1

Жыл бұрын

I'm having the same problem in Studio One. Did you figure out how to record a guitar track and have it feed into Scaler 2?

@timspencer1

Жыл бұрын

@@DevinGalaudet1 Yes - in Studio One you should also have the AUDIO version of Scaler in your Effects (as opposed to the instrument version in instruments). You can just have this as an insert on an audio channel and play into it.! Works too :)

@DevinGalaudet1

Жыл бұрын

@@timspencer1 Thanks, I will try it out.

@DevinGalaudet1

Жыл бұрын

@@timspencer1 It never occurred to me that there would be another set of Scaler 2 in my effects folder. Worked perfectly! Thank you.

Would it be possible to somehow use an already recorded track into scaler 2 audio? I have some existing songs I want scaler 2 to help generate parts for

@firstthessalonian6889

Жыл бұрын

yes you can detect any audio input and scaler will generate Chords to go along with it. Dependind on your DAW, you just have to route the audio into scaler or add scaler instrument in the effect tab.

how do you record straight into scaler 2 ? every time I try nothing gets recorded :( is there something in the settings I'm forgetting to switch on ?

@BaRRe0n

10 ай бұрын

nvm I GOT IT. YUHHHHH

Any way of keeping the guitar chords on top rather than having to pick guitar every chord progression ? Ta

What about an eight string guitar?

how does it work on a guitar song that i actually wrote with a real electric guitar? so u have to play guitar on a midi software?

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Hi Shane. The music in this video was written with a real electric guitar using just Scaler and Ableton Live (but any DAW will do). No MIDI guitar or anything like that. You’ll just need an audio interface with an instrument input to connect your electric guitar so Scaler can analyse the audio from your playing.

I understood most of your tutorial Tristan but got a bit lost on the synchronising with your original audio given that you didn't select all the chords that were detected. What happened to the original audio? Was that superseded by the later stuff. Surely the syncing with the DAW doesn't compensate for any chords that were not detected correctly and therefore never used in the final chord progression? Although I could be wrong, my guess is you have to re-record the audio using the final choice of chord progression. Am I right?

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Hi Andy. Scaler uses a default chord duration of 2 beats which you can set via the settings screen. So, each chord plays for 2 beats by default. At 4:35 in the video I open the Edit page and use the Playback Timings panel and double the playback length of the first 7 chords to play for twice as long, so the first 7 chords play for 4 beats or one bar, and the last two play for 2 beats. So it doesn’t matter how many chords you use in the final progression. As long as they each play for an appropriate amount of time. And I don’t think anything was re-recorded, however the lead melody however was recorded after the chord progression was chosen. Hope this clears up everything!

@andyhyner9467

Жыл бұрын

@@SchoolofSynthesis Thanks for explaining that

Lead guitar is nice :)

What scale is the solo in

@SchoolofSynthesis

4 ай бұрын

The guitar melody at the end is in Am, like the rest of the song.

Awesome vid that helps stem the tide of keyboard tyranny so prevalent in the DAW world. Prepare to be boarded plugin nerds. Garrrr me hearties....

7:46 an upbeat country vibe lol It sounds like a funeral dirge :) Good vid though

Instrumental has a Fleetwood Mac vibe to it

What luck that you guys only ask for the PRICE but not the VALUE of this plugin. It would be priceless.

Thank you so much it's a great help. But as great as Scaler2 is, it has the "Worse Interface Ever! It should come with a free prescription for reading glasses! I may be going out on a limb here but I'm guessing whoever decided on the jet black and slate grey background with white and blue text; a) wished it is still 1970 to early 1980s' and still plays Pong, Space Invaders and Tetris b) only codes in shell c)never attended a HCI course d)never read WC3 guild lines with regards to Web Accessibility It's not cool to expect your customer base to pay to go blind using your software!

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

That's a definite limb you've gone out on there! Incorrect on all fronts and with over 100,000 users there has been very complaints about the UI although it has been noted by the developers that it is not ideal and getting an overhaul. Oh and you may not realise but you can change the colours and chord blocks in preferences.

@somerandomhomeboy

Жыл бұрын

@@SchoolofSynthesis Really Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, the Scaler 2 UI appearance/skin cannot be adjusted. Apologies for any inconvenience that may have been caused. However, in regards to the feature requests such as this, I recommend forwarding these to the official Scaler Community Forum which is moderated by our software developer who will be more than happy to hear of these and to take them on board in potential updates to the software. I hope this helps. Kind Regards, James | Plugin Boutique Please explain ?

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

@@somerandomhomeboy Thanks for letting us know, we've sent a message to James @ PIB. In the meantime try out the demo and check out the options to contour the UI. It's not as extensive as it could be but allows font size and font changes, changing the skin tone and various white / black options. Hope that helps.

That's definitely not music for me... but nice video ...

don't speak so fast , you are not decipherable many times...what do say at 1.26??? lost you in the mumble ..happened quite few times so i stopped watching.

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. Naughty Tristan - he has been told to improve his English / intonation / pronunciation and just general character!

Excellent - will there be more chord inversions in scaler ? Pls ?

Scaler needs more strumming,disco,house,soulful and bass presets..Scaler presets like baroque classical music presets..Nobody use it for orchestral music creations..Please learn something from Avenger vst developers..Please be current,not old fashion..

@SchoolofSynthesis

Жыл бұрын

Don't think Scaler is used by many Baroque composers but it is used by the worlds top producers whom make Disco, House and Soul plus the more modern genres. Have a look around on YT, you'll see a few! ✌️