Questions to scaler 2

cam

Hi all,

I have the free scaler 2 and like it. I would like to know if there is an alternative app for my iPad.
I am looking for a semi generative app. An app which shows me chord possibilities which I can use. I don’t want a pure random chord app.

Are there differences between the app and the Mac versions?

Thanks in advance

tyslothrop1

@cam said:
Hi all,

An app which shows me chord possibilities which I can use. I don’t want a pure random chord app.

Klimper has a chord palette, in which many chords of a given scale (left to right the grades from Tonic to VII, bottom to top the complexity, more or less) if you play one chord, the other ones change size and colour, the brighter and bigger a chord, the more likely they are to follow.

Unfortunately it‘s not easy to get played midi out, but you can export programmed midi. It can host aus and has nice options to program accompaniments, if that‘s something you like to do.

Suggester might be good, too, but I have not tried that one.

galmandsværk

Is there any way to retrigger a pattern in Scaler? If I’ve made 3 different song sections and Scaler is playing pattern 1 but I want to start pattern 2, then it doesn’t start from the beginning of that pattern (necessarily), but rather continues where it left in pattern, eg at the third chord, and then continues on the fourth chord of pattern 2, instead of retriggering that pattern.
I don’t know if I’m explaining it, so it makes sense, but essentially I’m looking for a way to retrigger each pattern from the beginning, regardless of where it was located in the previous pattern.

hes

Audiomodern Chordjam is similar in many ways to Scaler 2.

https://audiomodern.com/shop/plugins/chordjam/

filo01

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tubespace

Suggester2 is quite popular: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/suggester-2-chords-scales/id6448964737

EdZAB

A couple suggestions which may touch on what you want:

• Progressions from 4Pockets - Let's you generate chords randomly with different levels of complexity and variation, and then you can pick and choose the sequence, or manually add them into a progression/song.
• Tonality - Has a pads page where you can add chords to a grid of pads, and select by key and chord quality.
• ChordBud from Cem Olcay - Let's you you select chords by key and quality, but not generative. It's MIDI only, so output must be sent to an instrument.
• Chordbot - Fun little app - lets you select chords based on a key and add them to a sequence and string sequences into a song, and you can add multiple instruments to each chord, and choose a playback pattern, and can be exported to audio stems or MIDI. Let me know if you want to see a demo of it, and I can create a short video.

There are other options out there too if you are interested in using pre-created chord progressions. For example Helium comes with a set of chord progressions built in that you can drag and drop into the sequencer. You can also grab sets of MIDI chord progressions free from a couple different sources and then drop them into various apps including Logic Pro.

*Edit: +1 for Audiomodern Chordjam - one of my favorite apps for generating chords sequences.

charalew

Think I've got almost all the apps mentioned in this thread and most of them are really good. I use Tonality and Suggester 2 regularly but if I could only keep one it would be Scaler 2.