Hi guys, just wanted to let you know we’ve launched a Scaler 2 Course that we’ve been working on for a few months, The intention here is that we wanted something that covers every single feature and function packaged up into one resource that new users can use as a step by step guide to getting to know Scaler at their own pace and that intermediate and power users can refer back to to discover and explore some of the more advanced or under utilised features.
And launching early next week at Plugin Boutique to coincide with my live stream on the Plugin Boutique YouTube channel, Wednesday 12th, 12pm UK time where I will go through making a track live using the Modulation Presets and some of the more advanced features.
To echo @jamieh , I also have been using Scaler for over 2 years actively, and it is amazing how many more nuances can be squeezed out of this gem. I also appreciate the Scaler team’s didactic approach to teaching by example, culminating in a full song, instead of getting lost in theory like so many others.
Just purchased it, I actually got Scaler months ago and haven’t really looked at it yet. I dont even know how to check the version or check for updates. I’m hoping to get some help on using it with Cakewalk by Bandlab.
Also dove in and subscribed to the course, from the SOS site, as I couldn’t see it on PIB. Looking forward to sitting down with it.
There was a post on this very recently. Cakewalk, which at one point fell apart in the hands of Gibson, appears to be getting much more traction now Bandlab released it for free - there have been several posts on this lately relating to its use with Scaler.
I started watching the Course and, although i use Scaler since about 4 or 5 years, I found some very useful details I have never thought about.
And i am still in the beginning.
Thanks Davide for this gem. Tristan is great presenter, too.
Yeah hopefully it will get more attention. I’ve been using it for years from way back when it was called Sonar. But I’ve no doubt the course will be a huge help regardless of DAW. It looks an incredible tool but there’s a lot in it. Cant wait to actually trying it out with some basic exercises.
Cakewalk was originally written by Twelve Tone Systems, based in Boston. There were very few vendors offering sequencers at that time. Emagic was one, which were bought by Apple and that became Logic.
I first bought it around 1995 when it was distributed as Cakewalk on two 3.5 inch floppies. Given today’s gigabyte installations it’s a tribute to their coding they could squash a sequencer into 2.88 Mb …
Twelve Tone were pretty innovative, and initially did well i the US, fighting with what are now Logic and Cubase. They did a big upgrade and renamed it Sonar. I kept upgrading through the various incarnations over the years, through the Gibson era and then to Bandlab. I then switched to Ableton, but it’s still on my machine.
It was Emagic Logic when I bought version 3 back in the day. Apple eventually bought it and then it became Logic Pro. It required an Emagic dongle (Which I still have.) So it’s always been Logic, I think I followed it through version 4 or so.
It was originally created in the early 1990s as Notator Logic by German software developer C-Lab which later went by Emagic. Apple acquired Emagic in 2002 and renamed Logic to Logic Pro.
I take your point and empathise with the possible inconvenience, but one good reason is that the asset cannot be protected that way. Anyone could pay one subscription, download it, and then sell it on the net for USD1 per copy.
@panda I think I paid at least $400 for it. I did the the software. Great for composing to picture. One of the first to have a retroactive record function meaning if you were playing around without it in record and realized you just played the greatest thing EVER! You could hit a key shortcut and it would place all that to a MIDI clip. I used that a lot. I don’t recall anyone else having that back then.
Only purchased the course yesterday … unfortunately, I would place myself in the category that Davide mentioned in his introduction … namely, the 20% that have about 5% knowledge and ability with Scaler 2. So really looking forward to learning the additional 95% of what Scaler 2 is capable of, and using it to its’ full potential.
