Gonna be busy trying the demos of a few of these for the next few days. Cheers everyone
I was looking at this too and found this site for info:
First few I tried seemed music theory dot to dots whereas NDLR seems more creative, but will try some others.
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Scaler2 on Sierra here.
Very handy and intuitive.
Works flawlessly.
Easy to build up chords progressions and alterations.
Humanise & new patterns, artists and styles.
Awaiting for NDLR… 
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My conclusions so far …
There’s nothing in software that does what NDLR does or is as much fun for jamming.
Xynthesizer is great, is cheap and outputs MIDI, but no chords
The plugins I’ve tried just seem cumbersome and not designed for jamming.
Will try some M4L patches and see where I end up
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Kirnu Cream is a great noodling tool and can send cc’s as part of its patterns.
It’s basically 4 arpeggiators with step sequencing, independent track lengths, scales, chords, accents & velocity per step, really customisable…
I had problems running it in Ableton (probably just user error) but it works really well in cubase, just set up a bunch of parameters with independent lengths, send them to some Kontakt instruments and you’ve got instant jazz! 
There’s an iOS version too but its pretty unstable when sending cc’s
Thanks for this feedback.
In the back of my mind I’ve been wondering if I shouldn’t let the NDLR go (free up some precious desk space), and just get a plugin.
But yeah, dedicated knobs makes a big difference for jamming, so based on your conclusion I’ll be keeping mine. 
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Thanks, I’ll give it a shot
This looks promising
Maybe this J74 ARPline? Is this the sort of thing you use the NDLR for?
Seems to have a whole bunch of M4L plugins all looking like a steal for what they’re doing:
I saw that scaler 2 has a multi voice output now.
You can set multiple instances of scaler to follow the main instance, filter out notes coming from the main instance (to extract the bass note for example) then set individual midi outs to drive different instruments. nice!
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I’m surprised no one mentioned Fugue Machine in this thread.
It was mentioned in the original post though.