Big big thank you to the Scaler Music developers for not only bringing Scaler 3 to iPadOS, but continuing to issue these updates and maintaining parity with the desktop version. I’ve been a Scaler user on MacOS for many years now and having a fully functional mobile version on my iPad is so valuable. Being able to develop new ideas literally anywhere, anytime, and bring them back onto my Mac whenever is a workflow paradise. If you’re into making music, give Scaler 3 a very serious look - it works so well for all styles/genres and will help you learn more and more about music theory while you’re using it. Worth every single penny and more.

I had some issues with what I thought was scaler 3 not recording midi performances correctly but it turned out to be a Massive X patch. So now I update my review to 5 stars. I’m happy to report that it is working correctly for my needs now. I’d love to see more progression libraries added, but only because I am horrible with theory and mixing and matching chords is not something I have a lot of time for right now, unfortunately. I do love the ability to plug Scaler 3 iPad into macos and use it to record midi into Bitwig. It keeps me from having to drag around midi or manage routing Scaler 3 vst as a separate track piping midi into an instrument. I just plug and go. Bitwig makes this easy.

If I were stuck on a desert island with only one music app, it’d be Scaler 3 from Scaler Music.Packed with features yet impressively optimized as an iPad app, it surprises and delights. From beginners to pros, it’s the ultimate tool for sketching ideas and scores.It effortlessly handles simple to complex chords, vast instrument libraries, key changes, articulations, and more—plus seamless MIDI integration.This app could easily power an entire music theory course.

This has to be one of the most poorly thought out UXs I've ever used. The app starts with (and I'm not kidding) a 40-page slideshow with a seemingly random collection of little facts about the UI, with no clear "what you're supposed to do" ever presented So you finish the 40-page slideshow but you still don't know how to actually use the app. Your choice is to go watch an hour of video or figure it out yourself I chose to figure it out myself, which was a huge mistake, not least because the iPad port of this app seems like an afterthought. There's all sorts of hidden functionality that you just have to know how to do. There are weird oversights like the inability to scroll lists of chords horizontally Take even the most basic of tasks. I've been at it for an hour and I still can't figure out how to delete a chord from my working chord progression down on the bottom. Or Say you have a couple of chords that you like and you want a freeform exploration of what should come next. I guess you open up the creative tab. I don't know if that's right, but if you do that, there's no clear connection between the chord visual aids and the actual working set of chords you've selected. Rather than just clicking through the recommended next chords using the little chord maps, you have to go and find the scale of your chord and hope that it's in the visual cloud. I know these examples are hard to follow, maybe it just takes more than an hour to figure out how to use this thing, but that should give you an indication of just how hard this app is to useWould highly recommend some investment in UX thinking here. The app looks pretty,But this app needs someone on the team thinking about the user journey, user goals, intuitiveness, etc. If I wanted an inscrutable UI that I had to fight, I'd go use Rapid Composer.