My guess as to the setup:
The chords are midi bound so a midi track is driving Scaler2 to get length of notes correct. Keystroke is triggering one of the grey notes at top which triggers a chord in Section C.
First and third chords have a performance specifically assigned to them.
Second and fourth chords are playing the global performance assigned in top window.
And fifth chord is assigned a performance that only sounds for a beat.
Brilliant demo but nothing complicated about it. What you see is what you get. Chord 1 & 3 assigned to āDelicatoā with 1 at double speed. 2 & 4 to his default expression of āAffabileā and just playing different note lengths.
Over on vi-control thereās been a lot of talk about new phrase libraries debuting. So this video was tossed in as an alternative, one with possibly more flexibility than sampled phrases.
You can be pretty sure that whatever you create with Scaler isnāt going to show up in someone elseās work. Nothing is ācannedā when working with Scaler.
Really cool. So question that comes to mind. Is that ONE instance of Scaler sending notes to multiple instances of Spitfire? Not familiar with the Spitfire instrument, so curious if that is one or multiple scalers triggering different spitfire instruments?
The Spitfire instruments are being hosted in a single instance of Kontakt and each instrument has selected the same instance of Scaler as its input. So one Scaler triggering multiple instruments.
While I havenāt gotten around to trying it, according to other Scaler tutorials you can snyc up multiple instances of Scaler to run simultaneously. That would offer lots of possibilities but would require keeping track of a lot of details.
Gotchaā¦ well this could have been way more interesting if there were different performance settings triggering different instruments (which will require a different instance of Scaler.) I think this is just playing the same performance stacked with different instruments (which is still cool, but not exactly how an orchestra would sound in real life)
The poster of the video was demonstrating the use of Scaler2 for creating ostinato string patterns. His intent wasnāt to create anything realistic. Scaler helps with the bare skeleton but then it takes lots of work to create a realistic result when using orchestral libraries.
When Scaler is driving synths the output is probably closer to a finished project.
Yes it takes a lot of work but scaler triggers all the orchestral and VI libraries I have. I compose full orchestral pieces for several clients and mediums. Making something sound exactly like a real orchestra to an orchestral arranger is impossible when using libraries but to clients it sounds like a real orchestra. Especially when using spitfire and Sonokinetic libraries that contain real phrase based recordings. That in connection with Scaler is key for me.
Is there a tutorial on how to connect Scaler 2 to instances of Kontakt/spitfire, etc.?
I would like to use my own sounds (kontakt, other vsts, etc.) while working in Scaler.
Thank you for this as well. I will watch it in sections because itās 50 minutes long, but Iām looking to use a kontakt sound (i.e. Spitfire Audio strings) with scaler 2 in Cubase. How to route the spitfire sound in kontakt to scaler 2 and while in scaler, testing chord progressions, I hear the spitfire strings in Cubase (10.5). Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it.
