He says that he is not going to go too deep in explaining the plugin.. he proceeds to explain each function in epic detail. Thank you very much I have this plugin for a long time and I was not taking full advantage of it

I might not be qualified to say this but I reckon Scaler 2 has done more to enable bedroom producers then any other plugin out there. It may not be the first to assist with chord progressions and compositions, but it's certainly the best at it in terms of ease of use and just the sheer speed of it. Once you have a basic knowledge, you can come up with new musical cues and themes in no time flat and it doesn't matter the genre whether it's hip hob beats or cinematic orchestral. No, I have no affiliation with them, I am just a massive fan.

The way you explain it is better then the ones who created it to be honest Thanks for the simplicity.

It really is an amazing tool. Bought it and used it once on a track, and it's probably my favorite thing I've ever made. Just pulling in a bunch of chords that sound good together is amazing. I'm not great at music theory, in fact I am bad.. Structuring chords takes a while for me, I can do it but I'm just super slow at it and it destroys creativity.. If I know I want to make something I have a set amount of time to do so before my brain goes "DONE!" and quits.

Thanks for this great intro to Scaler 2. Bought it yesterday and your video has been a great help. Glad youtube suggested it.

I picked this up a while ago and haven't spent enough time getting to know it. This really triggered my interest and gave an excellent overview and explanation of its features. Thank you very much

Great video, Geoff! The best walkthrough/tutorial videos I have seen for Scaler have been from one of the devs on the School of Synthesis channel. Great showcase of the crazy stuff Scaler can do, and he applies it to multiple musical genres.

By far the BEST tutorial I've seen, and I've had this instrument for months!!! TY!!!

nicely done! i wanted a subjective to the point and ez to understand basic tutorial and this was perfect ....i have been looking at a few others but now i am convinced Scaler 2 is what i would like, thanks for helping me make my final decision to purchase!

Scaler is brilliant , absolutely inspirational . I didn't know that selecting a genre would retain the selected scale , thanks for that. The developers have recorded pretty thorough tutorials with each release.

This is probably one of the best videos of this app. I like your tone and sense of production.

Fantastic video! Covered a bunch of useful things, learnt a lot and don't quickly and to the point. Perfect!

Excellent. I've had this for ages, didn't realise how good it is.

hanks very much!! This is exactly what I need, exactly when I need it. Just starting piano roll after mastering clips. I'm no longer able to physically play drums anymore, and Cakewalk and a few VSTs have opened up my artistic side again. This tool is perfect for me. I'm working with other musicians again. If I can just get my ideas across to them, we can communicate in the same language. This is mine in 2 weeks.

One of the most powerful VST's out there for composition and production in general. I have tons of ideas sketched with Scaler, it literally changed the way I produce my music. Thanks for the cool video.

Man, I've had scaler 2 for years.. didn't know how to use it THIS well. Ended up buying other chord apps.. Going back to Scaler.. thanks.. you're a great teacher.

Glad to see this video is getting the attention it deserves! Loving Scaler 2 on iOS, it’s an absolute game changer.

I literally just bought Scaler 2 a week ago. Such a big time saver.

I actually spent a few days routing midi in such a way that it would play chords out on single notes like this, but tbh - never got it to work nearly as well as this. Thanks for pointing me in Scaler 2's direction my G, this will have saved me further headache

Wow, the Algo knew what I needed. Thanks so much for this video!! I bought this plug-in and I could not make sense of how to use it and put it aside. Yesterday I picked it up again and had the same experience. Now your video show up and for the first time in a year, I created a cool chord progression. Thank you so much!!

I have scaler. Now I will start use it. Great video. My go to tutorial!

I’m very excited to have brought this from you, plug-in boutique. The Scaler 2! I’m so motivated, am taking the DAW out the bedroom and putting it in the, kitchen. 🎉 I’m now a kitchen producer, because I’m cooking!

This was really helpful, and you seem like a chill ass dude

Great demo. And love the shirt!

PLEASE make more of these for Scaler!!! I like your pace and how you show what you need to show to get results.... BTW, I do not own it, but Melody Sauce is apparently good for melodies (not scales). Thanks mate.

Super nice vid ! Very informative!!

Thanks for showing scaler in an understandable and inspirational way. Now I'm starting to get it.

Very well explained! Thank you!

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST TO LEARN FROM I TRIED EVERYONE AND YOU ARE THE BEST YOU A TRUE BLESSING TO ALL OF US THANK YOU YOU AN AWESOME TEACHER🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

scaler is a producers life saviour LOL, thanks for the vid man. the only real way to dive deep into SCALER2 is to use it and experience with the many different options available.

Good video bro. School of Synthesis has plenty of good stuff on Scaler. David Carbone does the videos, and he's one of the owners and devs of Scaler, and he's a good dude. Thanks again.

Nice video very understanding for a beginners level. Thanks and well appreciated

Very useful video, thank you for sharing!

Thanks, I'm loving it. Bridges a big missing piece from my music creation

My dude, I have been trying to watch the official tutorials and could not get a grasp on what he was on about and felt like I made a bad purchase as I felt it was not a beginner-friendly tool. I am not even 5 minutes into your video and I can already see how this tool can help me in the future. Your calm tone of voice, clear pronunciation and beginner friendly lingo make this a superior video (for newbies) compared to the official stuff that's out there.

You can Programmatically Jump from one Performance Setting to another Via MIDI - this adds a whole other dimension to this instrument

Great tips here! I bought it recently, but haven't done my homework.

This was great. Thank you. I would also recommend the official walkthroughs by David Carbonne, the brain behind scaler.

Magnífico vídeo, muchas gracias y un fuerte abrazo.

Hello! Thanks for this. You’ve got another subscriber! Like many in the comments, Ive had Scaler 2 for a month or so and never got past the initial beginner wall of “what do I do with this thing”, and I still felt that way after watching several of the official tutorials… they seemed to go over my head. Your way of explanation seems to work and I’m now excited to dive back in! Any chance youd do another video exploring and explaining the melodic and bass line aspects of scaler? Thanks again!

It is always being improved, which is great.

I have Captain Chord and their most recent upgrade, Epic. Since it's original release, I've always felt something was lacking. Because of that experience I've been hesitant on "pulling the plug" and purchase Scaler. I think you've convinced me!

I like what you have done with the link with your t-shirt. 👌

Ok so i know this trick for scaler to get the full potential out of it.. make your set of chords in scaler bind your keyboard to it... set a performance or phrase to play out.. then use that Midi Capture button, so you are recording what you play only within scaler for now... when done drag the midi to your track from the Drag button just under midi capture... the performance you just heard instantly turned to midi.. and you can set that to any track now.. put it on a whole different VST instrument... you can get really creative doing this.

this intro is legendary actually

Totally love Scaler 2 with FL Studio. Endless fun. Plenty of tutorials from Davide who is one of the creators.

had scaler for a Long time now. starting making music with it and this is very very very dangerous anyone that got it you should use this on as many times as possible - I didnt under stand music theory and it helps me find the moods the tones, the melodies & now it has scale detection too!? you got a gem here

This is insane! 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks Geoff! 🙌

Great plugin !

It’s on iPad now too. It’s super helpful.

Good work - bless you for making things clearer . All the best

You're amazing 💯

You literally never picked this up for the same reason as me. I thought it was a different product and loved it since getting it.

I love it for when I want to break out of my usual compositional ruts.

Great t-shirt, man!

Nice, thank you!

One of the more helpful Scaler 2 videos I have watched because you went very slow and showed step-by-step on how to implement. Other videos go so fast and attempt to show many many features that I get overwhelmed or lost quickly with regard to how I can use it to make songs. I am a home studio hobbyist making either cover songs with my own spin or general pop/power pop, or classic rock songs. I got S2 to help to quickly explore chord progressions and arrangement ideas to get me beyond just 2-3 guitars, bass, and drums with occasional piano and organ. I know the magic is in S2 but I am still struggling to apply it. I also want to use it to help with melodies if I come up with the chord progressions. Question #1: Are the instruments inside S2 good enough to use in demo recordings or do I need to find substitutes, assumedly of higher quality, from my VSTi collection? Most S2 video show orchestral, cinematic, EDM or House/Trap music. Question #2: Does anyone know of a video demonstrating using S2 for a nice pop, power pop, or rock music? Or, is this tool overkill for that purpose. I need some inspiration to get my music and song writing hobby to the next level. Question #3: If using a chord for lets say 4 beats of a 4/4 time pop song, do most people drag on chord into their DAW and work from there or use S2 tools to build the chord progression? Make sense?

Thank you~ Great thing~!

I would assume by now you've heard of the School of Synthesis (SOS) channel on the YT! It's the Scaler heaven of tutorial content!

After os and hardware upgrades what I had stopped working. I’ll have to look into this one to see if it goes wth the m1 cpu. I love what they are doing. I believe it should be used to improve your understanding of chords. Depending on it too much could hamper that development but it’s great.

Thank you!!

amazing plugin. slept on it for too long until i finally caved in haha

What can we say😏Cheat codes activated😎

Also. Take a look at Orb Producer. It's amazing to either get new ideas or finish current ones

You did a good job explaining in your video. I bought this recently when i also got my Mac Studio Ultra and so far I haven’t really taken the time to work with it. I already have a good grasp of harmony and I was like ? I get that these chords are derivative of the initial chord, i usually can just see them in my mind. However, i get the feeling that if I really explore the plugin it will show me possibilities that i haven’t yet considered and maybe new ways of discovering fresh ideas. Thanks for making this, i will go back to it again open my mind to it. By the way you really seem to like F minor! Just curious as to why it resonates with you more than say..G minor or D minor? Cheers.

Great tutorial

love your shirt

Recently got this myself. I need to knuckle down and learn what it can do. One thing you can do is when you have the chord progression at the bottom, left click just outside those squares and drag across them and you can then drag the whole lot into your DAW, instead of doing them one at a time. 👍

Dude I bought it months ago and never even authorized it. I shortly bought playbox soon afterwards and got stuck on that. So now my phone is reading my mind because I decided days ago to finally open it up and this was the first KZfaq video I saw one opening it up some fucking VUDU thanks.

thanks a bunch for reminding me that this useful tools sits on my hd for a long time without being used properly

I had it and never used it . But waooo . Game changer ..

SoundForMore is an iOS guru on KZfaq and he’s begun a series of tutorials on scaler 2 that’s top notch.

This resource is a great aide in composition ,,,all you really need is an ear in relation to what sounds right for you in a project and the will deliver . As you note it has a different focus from the Captain Chords , which I have and love but if you are into cinematic or other orchestral inspirations Scaler is the way to go. Those who wish to explore Scaler should search Davide Carbone on YT ,,,he is one the developers and has posted extensive detailed tutorials,At the time of writing Scaler is in version 2.6. Do well .

Scaler is my foundation.

powerful tool

Manchester music with a Manchester band on his t shirt. I love Joy Division

Hi. Great video. What kind of headphones do you use? Thanks!

Scaler 2 is great but not very intuitive to find your way around. I keep returning to youtube videos like yours to refresh my knowledge and find out how to do what should be simple tasks . I don't find the stock sounds that great, but it's very easy to route the output to another plugin. But scaler is a great tool and i'm still just scratching the surface of it's capabilities.

Hi Jeff.Do you know if you can change the background to a lighter shade of grey?

Great Video. Which Mic are you using in this video?

Knew everything but Im more interested about modulation part details and and even theory can you do that kind of video. Thx for video.

I've had Scaler for a while but find it quite complicated, so thank you for this video which is a great Get Started (Or Get Started Again) Guide! ps. Please make a video about how you achieve that great voice over sound! I have the same mic but mine sounds nothing like this 🙂 Peace.

Thanks.

Now we have Ezkeys 2 coming soon.😎

Just thinking how it would be cool if they made it so you could adjust per note the exact duration within the various strumming sequencial settings. They could include a ton more strumming patterns above and beyond the database within some of the guitar based VST's that i have. I am able to import those however, it could be a bonus version update for scaler to make this built in. The midi capture function has been automatically shutting itself off i noticed, and then i try to reestablish the midi capture, those it ends up cutting out, seemingly randomly within 10 notes or less, often after just 1 midi detected note or 2 or 3. Some sort of sensitivity setting for what constitutes midi detection and staying active for listening to further incoming notes following the first or first few. I have been using it mainly within FL Studio, and recently trying ableton live with a push controller. I also run a maschine studio into fl studio as the pads are decent and the menuing is fast and works well for a option to using a mouse.

when you click suggest, whats the difference between notes with the blue header on the button and the grey?

"I'm all about sad endings" LOL

this is so useful! Thanks very much. One question: How do you get Scaler to be the MIDI FX controller in your track in front of Kontakt?

I’ve had scaler for years on Mac. I had no idea they had an IOS version too. It’s amazing what iPads are capable of now. I’m hoping for Logic on iPad soon

If someone else hasn’t pointed it out yet, you can just click and drag to highlight the chords like you would desktop icons and drop the midi into your daw or whatever else. that blew my mind when I saw someone do it lol

I've been using it wrong this whole time! thanks

how different is it from chord jam? (besides the ability to play different instruments)

Scalers performance tab is worth every penny

Regarding my comments below about not being intuitive. @14:35 in the video, to remove unwanted chords (a basic operation), you have to right click and scroll down the menu to remove each chord. Also there's no obvious way to copy and paste chords between patterns, and to turn daw sync on/off you have to go into settings.

First 10:25 of video Me: BLOWN AWAY At 10:25 Geoff: "So where it get's really interesting..." Me:

Jeff make video about make depth using reverb please

Hi. Nice video. Could you share the song at @2:11? Really enjoyed it.

Scaler 2 Vs Hookpad? Wich is best for composition? Thanks

I always struggle with this in Ableton. I want to be able to set up my progression, and play/record it with the bind feature - then bounce that midi data out to other instruments without using it as a midi trigger. I swore in scaler 1 I found a way to record the actual midi of the notes being generated instead of just the bindings that I'm playing.