I wanted to give a shout out for the official course. I bought it as soon as it came out, sat on it, and I’m only just digging into it now. I’ve discovered a few features I never knew existed and I’m only part way through. I particularly love the global extract/apply voicing options. Also @davide 's creative summaries (showing you how he uses everything you’ve just learned from the current module) are a great addition. Plus it’s currently only $15!
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Nice one @EricJames We enjoyed making the course and we did it to grow the power users. I would guess 10% of our users know 50% of our features set we were just trying to get people to get the most out of it. We have learnt a lot from the experience. We have a Sound Design course coming in September and then we will be looking at some more Scaler orientated stuff!
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Just bought it.
The timing is pretty good as I’m (once again) getting into harmonization techniques and Scaler 2 might be able to help me, as discussed in A feature to help harmonizing melodies - #10 by davide .
Without veering too far away from this thread, I must say that I’d love a tool which could help me produce the types of rich harmonies I cherish, especially vocal ones. Some months back, I started singing bass in a barbershop chorus and it’s providing me with this intense joy of feeling the power of overtones in rich harmonies across several voices.
Now, the way Scaler works, I should be able to create chord progressions that I could then split in individual voices which I could then record on my own and get a similar feeling. It’s a lot of work, obviously. And much of it is undirected. Sure, I could do “the usual stuff” (much barbershop follows Circle of Fifths progressions and some of the voice leading can be done with a bit of fiddling on voicing). Still, there are steps missing.
And maybe the course will get me through some of that.
There are uses for Scaler 2 which make little use of “music theory”. Others which leverage an understanding of a variety of ideas from music theory (including Neo-Riemannian, though it doesn’t work so well beyond triads). Yet other usage patterns which can bring a deeper insight to what’s behind what counts as music theory, these days.
All this to say… Thanks for the reminder!
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The Official Course is the best online money I have EVER spent. It is an incredible learning tool even for this 81 year old! I repeat certain sections to catch stuff I missed. These guys are a full service team. They educate and inspire like no other producers to date. Love Scaler 2 and the team in Australia.
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Just bought it and going through the 1st module set. Looks awesome!
Hope you’re still enjoying it. Might be time time to mention to davide that I work on a commission basis 
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Humour is never wasted on me. Nor are people that help me!
Reminds me of old Steve Jobs and Kottke story.
“Steve, Kottke should have have some stocks, whatever percentage of stocks you give him, we will match”, to which Steve apparently responded with “Fair enough, then I offer him 0%”.
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Ruthless! Given this is a musicians’ tool I was anticipating a commission more in line with Spotify payments. Don’t let me down - I’ve already got that $0.006 earmarked! 
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