I upgraded to Scaler 3 today. I don’t think there is anything special about it other than having all the tools in one place. I did the upgrade because it was only $29 for me. I must have used the previous one maybe three times the most.
As i mentioned many times, i mostly produce using MPC Software. Users know that you there are tens of scales, modes, chords for various genres , arpeggio patterns… It can create events (add notes) for you, humanize, can merge patterns into chords etc. and perhaps many more things that i can’t remember now.
Scaler 3 is exactly that except it is in all one place (lots of menus though). And it does one more thing where it suggests chord progressions etc. But you could do this simply by Googling or using circle of fifths. I dont think i will be using it many times but for $29 i just had to…
If you are thinking to buy it for the original price, i say check what is available first. It could be in your DAW already. I am sure Ableton and Bitwig can do the things i mentioned above. I just don’t know.