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In this video I'm gonna discuss a
plugin from Plugin Boutique and the
name of the plugin is Scaler.  It is a
chord helping tool and I'm gonna
show you on my computer and I dive into
my DAW. The Scaler plugin is seen as an
instrument, so I'll drag the instrument
to my instrument track. ok. when we open
the plugin, it is seen as a instrument
so that means it isn't effect plugin, it
is an instrument plugin, so that means
that it is generating sound, you can
select which sound you want to generate
there are a few different sounds in
there. I have to select the correct one, do you
hear something that is that icon, or do
wanna hear a synth or another
synthesizer? But let's stick to the piano for
now. there is a setting window for some
settings. show guide tooltips etc. this
is important for the MIDI note export
what you can do and that's the reason
why I bought the tool is, you can really
easily export the MIDI notes drag them
into your timeline that is a real
time-saver previously I used Mixed In Key Odesi (or Odesi), I don't know what the exact name is...
that is a good tool for the thing it
does, but there is a really quirky way of
exporting MIDI files and saving and
really weird, and you have to be online for that
and if you have a hiccup in your
internet connection it doesn't work etc
this is offline, so it will work
hopefully. Even when the
internet connection is down. okay. then we
have some tool tips I will click them
away for now. here you can see the notes
that are playing on the keyboard. I use
this keyboard you can even play chords.
and you can see on top of here what chord
is playing
then we go down into the window and in
that window there is a detect. what you
can do and that is really funny and that
is the other reason why I bought the
tool. I wanted to have something. I have
some sometimes I have MIDI notes and it
takes me a while to figure out in which
scale those notes are. this tool does that
for you. for example. I dragged a clip to
my ... this is my track that I wanted to use
I'll click detect and there is the start
button and I press Start and I press
Start on my keyboard, so the notes, the
MIDI notes, will play. start
okay. I say stop and it says to me: it is
probably the A sharp minor scale or
the B flat minor scale. why does it think
that? because well there are six out of
seven notes are in that scale. it didn't
detect any chords that's true, because it
was only melody line. it has also some
suggestions for other scales, the
D flat major scale for example etcetera
etcetera etcetera. it does a couple of
guesses
I like that. I'll clear it for now
because I'm wanna go to my scales, my
have to switch that off. I can say I want
to go to the scales. I want to have the. I
want to select the scales. these are all
the scales that you can select and you
can filter on that. I want to have the C
major scale for example that's the
easiest scale, there's only one that fits
to that criterium. I can say C all and
then we have all the C scales and that
is of course, the major scale, the minor scale
altered scale, harmonic minor scale, well
you see what is in that list. mixolydian.
those are those weird scales. When I look
at myself I don't have really a lot of
background in music so this will help me
a lot
one of the other reasons why I bought
the plug-in is because on the other side
of the table there is a description
and that says: happy, light, bright
positive, sad, emotional, sentimental, jazzy, sophisticated. That means that I ... when I
want to reach a certain mood in a song, I
can really look this up. I don't have
enough music theory knowledge to do that
on the top of my head. This plug-in will
help me with that. But what I said: you
can filter on that, A minor scale for example. okay
then these are the A minor scale. When I
select that scale, it says, well what you
can do with that minor scale, there are a
couple of chords in that minor scale
these are the diatonic chords, that are the chords that
are really in
the scale but you can have some
variations on that. What you can do is
you can bind the MIDI to that, so now I
play the notes on the keyboard when I do
it will play the chords
that's are the chords variations. you can even
have some voicings and these are the
voicing suggestions
what you now can do is, you can drag that,
if you want to have a very specific
chord progression what you can do is now
drag it to the lower part of the screen. I like
this one. and I want a chord variation. for example, let's say I like this
it's a chord progression of nothing but
it's just to show you. you can even set
the octave so those are more close to
each other
that's too high. what you even can do, if a ... 
you can see on the
screen what is what is doing: which notes
that are playing. these are the E, A and C when
I want to have an inversion, so that means
that one of the notes is switched to or
above or below. now it's switched to
below and, but I can switch it up if I
want to. what I now can do, if I am
happy with that. let's say I'm happy with
that
I can drag it to my to a new track for
example. just click here: export MIDI and
drag it again to the track. you can set
if you want, you can set: quarter, half,
double, eighth
whole for example and then I have a
bigger for each note and a new chord. so
that's in basic what the plugin does
there is a suggestion, more suggestions
for you, you can select for example a
song, you can say, well I want a chilled
song and those are the most
used progressed chord progressions or chords. it doesn't do chord progressions for you. And those are
the most used chords for that ... chill songs. for chill songs we have the
Dorian mode the C Dorian mode but when I have the F mixolydian mode
but I can say: well I wanna do to future
bass. but in the C major scale
and again behind this is jazzy, bluesy,
rocky, sophisticated. And there are a
whole bunch of music styles in there. And
that's something I really like
there is a artists section for example
Carl Cox, who doesn't like Carl Cox. these are
chord progression, chords, not progressions. But
these are chords he uses. for the A flat minor uhh MAJOR scale.
And I can even drag those chords directly downstairs
here. if I want to. I don't have to. and I
can say now let's play that chord
progression. And when I'm happy with that,
I can say again export to MIDI. I don't
have a new track, so I will drag it onto
an existing track, but you get the idea
and you can even import chord sets. 
So that is in a nutshell the Scaler plugin
the cost of this plugin is about 43
euros
it isn't really much.
On the website it says 50. 
if you have a business like me
then you don't have to pay the VAT so
that is somewhat cheaper for you.
For that money you have really a lot
There is just one downside to the plugin, well
it's not really a downside is it's the
omission of a feature. When I look at
Odesi, I really use a lot of those chord
progressions that are in there. That are
"money chords" as they call it. Those are
really often used chords in pop songs or
in really famous songs, so they proved
their usability. Those famous chord progression
are regretfully not in this plugin
there is a plugin of ... not Odesi
but Mixed In Key, and that plug-in is
called Captain Chords. I didn't take a
look at it, I just saw some youtube
movies, but I didn't take a look at it.
but it has some more advantages over
over Odesi. Because in Odesi, yeah
it's still an online tool and that
exporting, so you can export MIDI
directly to your MIDI track, that is
really really handy and I saw that
Captain Chords can do that. But for now
this plug-in I already said it. I like that
you can see for the scales what
are the descriptions the happy, light,
positive, bright,
sad, emotional that is really handy. 
And that you can hear the chords really
easy that is somewhat more difficult
in Odesi for example. But for the money
I really like the plug-in and I think I
will use it a lot.
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