Scaler by Plugin Boutique is a unique and inspirational MIDI effect
that makes finding chords and progressions intuitive and fun! With note
detection, scale selection and chord suggestions, Scaler is a
comprehensive but easy-to-use toolbox that will help
anyone make better music.
A first of its kind, Scaler can determine what key and scale you’re
in and suggest chords that match your music, or it can inspire a tune
from scratch by providing a set of initial chords in an unexplored key.
With the onboard bank of 1,728 scales and
modes and over 100 genre and artist presets, there’s more than enough
to keep the juices flowing.
1.2 New Feature List:
- Humanise velocities: velocity of each note within chords is randomised to provide a more natural playing style.
- Midi Export Length: select length of MIDI notes for export and drag and drop.
- Progression builder now handles up to 16 chords.
- Chord progressions in the progression builder can be played to the tempo of your DAW.
In recent times we've been looking back at our time at
Ableton's Loop event in Berlin with much fondness, it may have now been
a while ago but many of the meetings and discussions caught on the fly
in corridors and social areas are starting to come to fruition. None
more so than the time we met up with EboMan himself for a full on demo
of the EboStudio software.
We'd seen video working with Ableton Live before so
was expecting a similarly complex process of set up, we were very wrong
as within five minutes we were jamming awy to our hearts content adding
that extra dimension to our Live set, whilst importantly not straining
the CPU.
Our question were many and the answers simple and straightforwards, so we thought we'd share some of them with you!
Q. What is EboSuite? A. EboSuite transforms Ableton Live into an AudioVisual production suite. Q. Why would i need it? A, EboSuite provides
an unrivalled way of integrating video into live shows and music
productions. It enables musicians to produce/perform their own visual
music and video clips without having to learn about complex video
editing or VJ software. Q, What's the Suite part about then? A,EboSuite consists
of a growing set of plug-ins for video sampling, editing, mixing and
visual effects. Currently seven plug-ins are included: - eSampler - video sampler (trigger and pitch videos live and more) - eClips - adds video playback to Ableton's Session View. - eCrossfade - mix video tracks using different crossfade effects. - eTrackTransform - position, scale and rotate video tracks. - eComper - compile a MIDI clip to a movie file. - eSyphon - send video output from single tracks or the master to other video applications through Syphon. - eConvert - convert video files to Hap codec. Q, I'd need a high powered bank of computers to run it surely? A, All video processing is done outside of Ableton Live in the dedicated EboSuite application
that runs in the background to maximise performance and reliability.
The plug-ins are designed to fit seamlessly in the creative workflow of
music producers and performers. Everything that needs to be done to
create and perform audiovisual compositions can be done straight from
Ableton Live. So there it is, our first release to fully integrate Video into your Ableton Live Performance!