RELEASED - Scaler 3 for iPad on the way - just entered beta testing

Stuntman_mike

@timfromtheborder said:

@Gavinski said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@unlink said:

@dokwok2 said:
I purchased S3 this morning and loaded it in Logic Pro. The issues I had with S2 in Logic have been fixed:

• You can now see the whole screen.
• DAW sync works without messing with the bit rate for the whole project. This means that Scaler’s chords will now play in time with, for example, Logic Pro’s session drummers.

A negative: even when you maximize S3 in Logic, the text is small on my 11” iPad Pro.

Thank you for this. Also removing the mini tiles at the bottom will probably help with the text size.

You can use the built-in iOS Text Size tool to bump up the scaling specifically for Scaler 3 without affecting your other music apps.
• Open Scaler 3 on your iPad or iPhone.
• Swipe down from the top-right corner to open the Control Center. 
• Tap the Text Size (AA) icon. 
• Note: If you don't see it, go to iOS Settings > Control Center and add "Text Size." 
• At the bottom, select Scaler 3 Only (so it doesn't mess up your whole OS). 
• Slide the bar up to increase the font size.

Courtesy of Google Gemini

@Optahealth try this 👆

Please Mike, we all need to avoid posting AI shittalk here, these machines are too wrong, too often, about anything related to iOS music production

At the bare minimum, people should test and make sure their advice actually works before posting it under the assumption that it’s correct. Otherwise they are not contributing anything helpful, because anyone who wants to go to AI for help can easily do so themselves.

@Gavinski said:

@timfromtheborder said:

@Gavinski said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@unlink said:

@dokwok2 said:
I purchased S3 this morning and loaded it in Logic Pro. The issues I had with S2 in Logic have been fixed:

• You can now see the whole screen.
• DAW sync works without messing with the bit rate for the whole project. This means that Scaler’s chords will now play in time with, for example, Logic Pro’s session drummers.

A negative: even when you maximize S3 in Logic, the text is small on my 11” iPad Pro.

Thank you for this. Also removing the mini tiles at the bottom will probably help with the text size.

You can use the built-in iOS Text Size tool to bump up the scaling specifically for Scaler 3 without affecting your other music apps.
• Open Scaler 3 on your iPad or iPhone.
• Swipe down from the top-right corner to open the Control Center. 
• Tap the Text Size (AA) icon. 
• Note: If you don't see it, go to iOS Settings > Control Center and add "Text Size." 
• At the bottom, select Scaler 3 Only (so it doesn't mess up your whole OS). 
• Slide the bar up to increase the font size.

Courtesy of Google Gemini

@Optahealth try this 👆

Please Mike, we all need to avoid posting AI shittalk here, these machines are too wrong, too often, about anything related to iOS music production

At the bare minimum, people should test and make sure their advice actually works before posting it under the assumption that it’s correct. Otherwise they are not contributing anything helpful, because anyone who wants to go to AI for help can easily do so themselves.

Absolutely, let's please knock this trend on the head

Haste post owned, sorry that guidance didn’t work out 🙏

Stuntman_mike

@timfromtheborder said:

@Optahealth said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@unlink said:

@dokwok2 said:
I purchased S3 this morning and loaded it in Logic Pro. The issues I had with S2 in Logic have been fixed:

• You can now see the whole screen.
• DAW sync works without messing with the bit rate for the whole project. This means that Scaler’s chords will now play in time with, for example, Logic Pro’s session drummers.

A negative: even when you maximize S3 in Logic, the text is small on my 11” iPad Pro.

Thank you for this. Also removing the mini tiles at the bottom will probably help with the text size.

You can use the built-in iOS Text Size tool to bump up the scaling specifically for Scaler 3 without affecting your other music apps.
• Open Scaler 3 on your iPad or iPhone.
• Swipe down from the top-right corner to open the Control Center. 
• Tap the Text Size (AA) icon. 
• Note: If you don't see it, go to iOS Settings > Control Center and add "Text Size." 
• At the bottom, select Scaler 3 Only (so it doesn't mess up your whole OS). 
• Slide the bar up to increase the font size.

Courtesy of Google Gemini

Hey Google Gemini, it would be wonderful to bump up the text size in Scaler 3,but for the life of me I can't find this text setting in my control center settings. Brand NEW ipad pro M5

Gemini is hallucinating.

There is a way to customize text size in apps. It’s under Accessibility -> Per-App Settings. You add the app and then set text size.

However, the app itself has to support dynamic text sizing. I don’t know if Scaler 3 does, but I kinda doubt it.

Gemini was on the right track, I was able to “control” text size for Scaler only in Control Center, but Scaler 3 doesn’t seem to support dynamic text sizing, yet… I will pass this suggestion on to the developer 🙏

Edward_Alexander

Yeah it didn’t work with Rubato either.. sniff sniff

Edit: I’ll tell you what DOES work though, if I connect my iPad to the HDMI out port of my Apple Multi A/V dongle adapter thingie, and send the display to my 65” living room TV.

Then, I can see things. Of course this takes away from the whole portability thing of an iPad

Stuntman_mike

@Edward_Alexander said:
Yeah it didn’t work with Rubato either.. sniff sniff

Edit: I’ll tell you what DOES work though, if I connect my iPad to the HDMI out port of my Apple Multi A/V dongle adapter thingie, and send the display to my 65” living room TV.

Then, I can see things. Of course this takes away from the whole portability thing of an iPad

Ah, great idea!!!
Since I was on the beta I submitted feedback requesting dynamic text 🔥
Perhaps we can all start requesting dynamic text for the apps that have small text?

Samu

@Stuntman_mike said:

@timfromtheborder said:

@Optahealth said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@unlink said:

@dokwok2 said:
I purchased S3 this morning and loaded it in Logic Pro. The issues I had with S2 in Logic have been fixed:

• You can now see the whole screen.
• DAW sync works without messing with the bit rate for the whole project. This means that Scaler’s chords will now play in time with, for example, Logic Pro’s session drummers.

A negative: even when you maximize S3 in Logic, the text is small on my 11” iPad Pro.

Thank you for this. Also removing the mini tiles at the bottom will probably help with the text size.

You can use the built-in iOS Text Size tool to bump up the scaling specifically for Scaler 3 without affecting your other music apps.
• Open Scaler 3 on your iPad or iPhone.
• Swipe down from the top-right corner to open the Control Center. 
• Tap the Text Size (AA) icon. 
• Note: If you don't see it, go to iOS Settings > Control Center and add "Text Size." 
• At the bottom, select Scaler 3 Only (so it doesn't mess up your whole OS). 
• Slide the bar up to increase the font size.

Courtesy of Google Gemini

Hey Google Gemini, it would be wonderful to bump up the text size in Scaler 3,but for the life of me I can't find this text setting in my control center settings. Brand NEW ipad pro M5

Gemini is hallucinating.

There is a way to customize text size in apps. It’s under Accessibility -> Per-App Settings. You add the app and then set text size.

However, the app itself has to support dynamic text sizing. I don’t know if Scaler 3 does, but I kinda doubt it.

Gemini was on the right track, I was able to “control” text size for Scaler only in Control Center, but Scaler 3 doesn’t seem to support dynamic text sizing, yet… I will pass this suggestion on the developer 🙏

Thanks for testing, saved Me a few bucks...
(I would go totally bananas after buying apps that are not well-behaved in 2026!).

Stuntman_mike

@Samu said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@timfromtheborder said:

@Optahealth said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@unlink said:

@dokwok2 said:
I purchased S3 this morning and loaded it in Logic Pro. The issues I had with S2 in Logic have been fixed:

• You can now see the whole screen.
• DAW sync works without messing with the bit rate for the whole project. This means that Scaler’s chords will now play in time with, for example, Logic Pro’s session drummers.

A negative: even when you maximize S3 in Logic, the text is small on my 11” iPad Pro.

Thank you for this. Also removing the mini tiles at the bottom will probably help with the text size.

You can use the built-in iOS Text Size tool to bump up the scaling specifically for Scaler 3 without affecting your other music apps.
• Open Scaler 3 on your iPad or iPhone.
• Swipe down from the top-right corner to open the Control Center. 
• Tap the Text Size (AA) icon. 
• Note: If you don't see it, go to iOS Settings > Control Center and add "Text Size." 
• At the bottom, select Scaler 3 Only (so it doesn't mess up your whole OS). 
• Slide the bar up to increase the font size.

Courtesy of Google Gemini

Hey Google Gemini, it would be wonderful to bump up the text size in Scaler 3,but for the life of me I can't find this text setting in my control center settings. Brand NEW ipad pro M5

Gemini is hallucinating.

There is a way to customize text size in apps. It’s under Accessibility -> Per-App Settings. You add the app and then set text size.

However, the app itself has to support dynamic text sizing. I don’t know if Scaler 3 does, but I kinda doubt it.

Gemini was on the right track, I was able to “control” text size for Scaler only in Control Center, but Scaler 3 doesn’t seem to support dynamic text sizing, yet… I will pass this suggestion on the developer 🙏

Thanks for testing, saved Me a few bucks...
(I would go totally bananas after buying apps that are not well-behaved in 2026!).

🙏 You’re welcome, thank you @Gavinski and @timfromtheborder for calling me out on this so I am more careful. I wouldn’t want anyone to spend their hard earned money on an app they cannot use as intended.

royor

@oldsynthguy said:
Anyone else having issues deleting chords, or is it just me? The pop-up menu seems to have almost no effect, whether deleting, editing, doubling etc. to the selected chord (standalone).

Sometimes it works.. sometimes it doesn’t.. This is in the arrange page.. tried to half 2 different chords (1 bar each) + then join them to get 1 bar (2 beats for each chord).. that took longer than it should have.. needs some refining..

Had other issues with adding a bass track (arrange page) and then not being able to change that to some other track.. I couldn’t change it to a melody or sequence etc.. or going one step further back to change from expressions to moods.. This is within the Motions pop up..

The tap+hold with 1 finger and then tap with a 2nd finger is just weird.. I suppose it’s gonna take some time to get used to..

Otherwise, I like all the new features I’ve played with so far.. there’s so much to mess around with..

dokwok2

@unlink said:
Also removing the mini tiles at the bottom will probably help with the text size.

Thank you! I didn’t know about the mini-tiles, but turning them off does make things better:

I’m having fun now. Something that I think would help with the legibility, even more than dynamic text size, is stretching the whole UI when you get rid of the keyboard at the bottom. Currently, this makes more room in one of the lists — which is useful, but does nothing to make the text bigger. As you can see from my screenshots, there is a fair bit of empty space on the sides. If the whole UI expanded proportionally when you collapsethe keyboard, there would be less empty space and bigger text.

oldsynthguy

@royor said:

@oldsynthguy said:
Anyone else having issues deleting chords, or is it just me? The pop-up menu seems to have almost no effect, whether deleting, editing, doubling etc. to the selected chord (standalone).

Sometimes it works.. sometimes it doesn’t.. This is in the arrange page.. tried to half 2 different chords (1 bar each) + then join them to get 1 bar (2 beats for each chord).. that took longer than it should have.. needs some refining..

Had other issues with adding a bass track (arrange page) and then not being able to change that to some other track.. I couldn’t change it to a melody or sequence etc.. or going one step further back to change from expressions to moods.. This is within the Motions pop up..

The tap+hold with 1 finger and then tap with a 2nd finger is just weird.. I suppose it’s gonna take some time to get used to..

Otherwise, I like all the new features I’ve played with so far.. there’s so much to mess around with..

Thanks, not just me then!

I don’t mind the 2nd finger tap, but despite the pop-up showing, selecting ‘delete chord’ only works about 5% of the time for me. None of the other options seem to do anything at all.

It’s good otherwise, but not being able to remove or change a chord is a pretty serious problem. Better if there was a trash icon on the nav to select instead. Might be refund time for this one.

novich

The text is difficult to read not so much because of the letter size, but because of the low contrast. It's dark gray. The interface itself is very dark. If you lighten it and make the letters light, readability will become normal even at this size.

justaglove

lazy ass UI...low contrast, bad text size, no scaling. hung notes day one.

why?

what are they doing besides just porting it quick and dirty??

who tests this shit??? better yet who signs off on it????

Stuntman_mike

@novich said:
The text is difficult to read not so much because of the letter size, but because of the low contrast. It's dark gray. The interface itself is very dark. If you lighten it and make the letters light, readability will become normal even at this size.

Good point, you can change the theme to a lighter version 💡

oldsynthguy

@justaglove said:
lazy ass UI...low contrast, bad text size, no scaling. hung notes day one.

why?

what are they doing besides just porting it quick and dirty??

who tests this shit??? better yet who signs off on it????

It’s buggy as hell this thing. 3rd iPad reboot, and the ‘delete chord’ worked ok in most views. Closed app, reopened, stopped working again. Ridiculous.

justaglove

Every new release lately is like flipping a coin on whether or not you're about to smoke a wet cigarette lol

Stuntman_mike

@oldsynthguy said:

@justaglove said:
lazy ass UI...low contrast, bad text size, no scaling. hung notes day one.

why?

what are they doing besides just porting it quick and dirty??

who tests this shit??? better yet who signs off on it????

It’s buggy as hell this thing. 3rd iPad reboot, and the ‘delete chord’ worked ok in most views. Closed app, reopened, stopped working again. Ridiculous.

Press and hold chord while pressing 3 dots on the left to delete chords 🙏

oldsynthguy

@Stuntman_mike said:

@oldsynthguy said:

@justaglove said:
lazy ass UI...low contrast, bad text size, no scaling. hung notes day one.

why?

what are they doing besides just porting it quick and dirty??

who tests this shit??? better yet who signs off on it????

It’s buggy as hell this thing. 3rd iPad reboot, and the ‘delete chord’ worked ok in most views. Closed app, reopened, stopped working again. Ridiculous.

Press and hold chord while pressing 3 dots on the left to delete chords 🙏

Thanks, that's easier to access than the finger tap option, but I'm still having the exact same issue - sometimes it works, and sometimes (most of the time) it doesn't, none of the options when selected have any effect.

Update: after a bit of play this morning, I think it’s not a bug, you just have to be extremely precise with the first and second tap. The confusion comes as even when it looks like you’ve made the selection (so the pop-up appears with the additional menu options), selecting the ‘delete chord’ doesn’t work. Actually that probably is a bug.

But anyway, I’ve found tapping the two buttons quickly, seems to work most times. I’ve yet to be able to get the click and drag duplicate thing to work, though.

Nice results when you get something going, but I wouldn’t have purchased this if I’d known it was going to be this finicky. Nav menu’s instead of the double tap thing would make for a better UX.

ecou

To those who bough Scaler 3, I am trying to decide if I should get S3.

I use Scaler 2 a lot and have mostly gotten used to its quirky workflow. I use S2 in Cubasis as a midi plugin.

I have no interest in using S3 as a Auv3 host / daw. Is the new workflow better ? Any other new features worth the upgrade ?

oldsynthguy

Seems pretty heavy on resources - getting a lot of spikes and crackles in AUM on my M2.

5alien

I’m tempted to buy this app, but reading the thread it doesn’t seems that polished
Any equivalent in terms of features on iOS ?

danbun

Update is already out. Had no issues up to now anyway.

Optahealth

@5alien said:
I’m tempted to buy this app, but reading the thread it doesn’t seems that polished
Any equivalent in terms of features on iOS ?

Think of it as becoming a beta tester, but you have to pay.

Optahealth

@danbun said:
Update is already out. Had no issues up to now anyway.

Stuck notes using inside the newly updated GR-II this morning

pseudophysics

The VST also seems to be pretty buggy, so it's not iOS specific

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=617714&sid=2055425b7eceb68bb5e6c52a5822292a&start=285

pseudophysics

carol

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SamSamSam

Disappointing. As pointed out in some of the comments above by @oldsynthguy , the interface isn’t very responsive, and the design choices aren’t intuitive. For example, to edit a chord, you have to tap the chord and then tap anywhere else on the screen with another finger.

Other issues:

• It’s buggy and crashed several times for me.
• Undo isn’t reliable.

Finally, I wonder if someone had this specific problem:
If I halve the length of a chord, I can’t place a chord right after it.

oldsynthguy

@SamSamSam said:
Disappointing. As pointed out in some of the comments above by @oldsynthguy , the interface isn’t very responsive, and the design choices aren’t intuitive. For example, to edit a chord, you have to tap the chord and then tap anywhere else on the screen with another finger.

‘Delete chord’ still only works intermittently for me, despite the recent update.

It’s not good.

SamSamSam

Finally, I wonder if someone had this specific problem:
If I halve the length of a chord, I can’t place a chord right after it.

I complained on the forum, and they replied : ) Let's see what happen for the other issues.

--> to place the chord on half division, you have to adjust the Divisions (top right) in the arrange page (not completely intuitive... but good enough)

EdZAB

I don’t question anyone’s experience or opinion of the app. I was on the beta and they addressed a lot of bugs and usability issues, and seemed very responsive to me. I would encourage that anyone who has an issue or complaint consider posting in the forum, if you think it’s worthwhile. This group has a lot to offer - there’s many people here with years of experience using iOS apps and who know the ropes, and who know what makes an iOS music app good or bad, or worth considering.

Scaler 3 Support Forum

https://forum.scalermusic.com/c/scaler-3-support/34