Lycalp
August 12, 2023, 4:05pm
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Hello
I am a new Scaler 2 user: Is it possible to input Chords like this:
Fm/Eb
Thanks for any help!
ed66
August 12, 2023, 4:51pm
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Hi @Lycalp
Welcome to the forum; the simple answer is yes it is very easy on the CHORD page.
In this tutorial I am going to introduce you to some of the functionality of the CHORD page.
From the MAIN page
[BYO 1a]
click on the CHORDS button
[BYO 1a]
which will open the CHORDS page. At the bottom of the page is your progression from Section C on the MAIN page.
[BYO 3a]
Note that the first block has a yellow border and the others have little yellow triangles in the top right-hand corner. The yellow border signifies that this is the block on which you are working to create variat…
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create variations of SCALE chords.
So starting with a simple progression on the MAIN page
[BYO 1a]
click on the variations to the chords we can VARIATIONS button
[BYO 1d]
and select the degree of the scale for which we want variations from the drop-down
[BYO 1e]
Selecting the Supertonic (i.e second degree of the scale = F in this example) displays a list of variations for the F chord all of which are in scale.
[BYO 1f]
Note that this ap…
This is a short tutorial on adding augmented chords to your progression.
There are a number of ways to introduce augmented chords into a progression.
The first way is to simply click on the TRIADS button
[aug 1]
which will open a drop-down menu with augmented chords
[aug 2]
This will change the scale chords ot augmented scale chords depending on the extension that you choose (7th, 9th, 11th, or 13th).
I have chosen 9ths in this example.
[aug 3]
Then simply drag the chords you want i…
Recently I’ve seen a couple of posts where new users have been asking how to find variations on chords, so here is a short introduction about using Scaler 2.5 to find variations on the basic triad, including extensions.
Simple extensions to chords can be found by clicking on the drop down menu, which has the default TRIAD selected. The options are: TRIADS, 7THS, 9THS, 11THS and 13THS.
[Chord search 1 extensions]
In the following example I have selected 9THS.
[Chord search 2 extensions]
Th…
These tutorials have all be developed using Scaler 2.x.
I would recommend that you also try the official on-line Scaler 2 course There also many good videos on the School of Synthesis channel , if you haven’t already found these.
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