Following on from the award-winning Scaler music theory plugin, Scaler EQ offers a remarkable new way to EQ with musicality and colour.

By enhancing only note frequencies in key with your song, and reducing only note frequencies that aren’t, Scaler EQ can provide a new spin on working with cuts and boosts, increasing the tonality behind your music and providing new harmonic avenues.

And for when you just want a regular, fully-featured, modern EQ, Scaler EQ has you covered with its familiar workflow, large choice of band types, mid/side operation, dynamic bands, peak limiters, and stereo enhancement. You can easily apply classic mixing and mastering techniques used by professionals, with an extra optional musical edge.

→ What can Scaler EQ be used for?

✓ Music Production:
Ideal for musicians and producers looking to enhance the musicality of their tracks by ensuring all instruments are in harmony with the chosen scale.

✓ Audio Editing:
Simplify EQ processes by targeting and cleaning up frequency bands to remove audio that doesn’t belong and enhance audio naturally present with the chosen scale.

✓ Audio Engineering:
Dynamically soothe audio by suppressing in-harmonic frequencies or expanding harmonic frequencies using dynamic compression and expansion.

✓ Mastering:
Place on your master channel to broaden your stereo width, focus your bass, increase loudness, and enhance your mix.

✓ DJing:
DJs can use it to ensure that the tracks they mix are in harmony by detecting the key and scale whilst balancing the mix of each track.

The World’s First In-Key EQ
Thanks to its Harmonic Peak and ‘Plus/Minus’ filter types, performing a boost on Scaler EQ means only boosting frequencies that are in-key with the currently set scale. Making a cut with the same band will reduce only the out-of-key frequencies – although it can be set to cut in-key frequencies too, which can be helpful for mixing.

By using in-key EQ, you’ll get warmer lows and sweeter highs when boosting, while out-of-key cuts will lead to clearer, more focused bass and less harsh highs that retain their musicality.

Simple Key Detection
Key detection lets you automatically capture the key of your music through audio or MIDI, making it quick and simple to set up sweetening, tonal boosts. For a choice of broader or more focused tonal colours, you can add or remove notes in the currently selected scale. Key Switching? No problem, Scaler EQ can assign different scales and keys to ‘Scale Switchers’ that are fully automatable.

Musician- and Producer-Friendly Band Types
Scaler EQ’s harmonic band types aren’t the only option for boosts and cuts. The traditional array of shelves, bells and high-pass/low-pass filters will be instantly familiar and simple to use for every producer, and there’s more to reward creative exploration in Scaler EQ.

The Magic Shelf
Scaler EQ’s proprietary Magic Shelf bands work with stereo properties in mind. Boost a Magic Shelf in the bass region, and it will work harder on the band’s mid signal than it does on its side information. Reduce the level of that bass Magic Shelf to make it a cut, and you’ll cut the side signal more than you cut the mid information.

The high-frequency Magic Shelf works in a complementary way, increasing sides with more strength and reducing mids more heavy-handedly. With its Range control increased, any Magic Shelf band introduces a complementary scoop or bump before its corner frequency.

Mastering Grade Limiters and Meters
Scaler EQ acts as an all in one tool box on your master channel with adjustable input and output levels, Peak and RMS Meters and two safety limiters that can be driven into at input or output stage for increased loudness.

All the Mod EQ Cons
Scaler EQ will fit right beside all your other mixing plugins with its solid workflow for boosting and cutting bands and shelves like a traditional EQ. Each band or shelf can also be set to Dynamic mode, helping to soothe boosts and cuts with dynamic compression and expansion that can be controlled with a sidechain input, set with Threshold, Ratio, Attack and Release controls.

Stereo options abound in Scaler EQ as well. With stereo channel selection (mid/side/stereo) for every band, it’s easy to enhance or reduce energy in a particular region of the stereo panorama, and thanks to the Mono Frequency selector, you can quickly and simply make the bass region mono below a frequency of your choosing. The Stereo Width dial offers a frequency-conscious way to enhance stereo width, using proprietary widening DSP.

→ Features:

• Patent pending musical EQ with harmonic band types that boost in-key frequencies and cut out-of-key frequencies
• Familiar EQ controls translate to a regular workflow – but one that adds more colour
• Choice of band types for traditional boost/cut EQ or harmonic EQ
• Magic Shelf bands deliver punchier low end and smoother highs
• Key detection sets the EQ’s target scale
• Scale Switching allows for scale and key changes in your track
• Dial in dynamics for any band (Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release)
• Control any shape dynamically via sidechain input
• Add or remove scale notes for a specific colour (eg, four-note chords or just fifths)
• Adjustable input and output levels with peak and RMS metering
• Creative unique EQ responses by combining magic shelves, harmonic filters and cuts
• Each band can be set to work on stereo, mid or side channels
• Enhance stereo width and collapse low frequencies to mono
• Minimum phase, zero latency EQ
• Available for Mac and PC in VST2, VST3 and AU formats

Compatibility: macOS 10.14 or later • Apple Silicon or Intel Core processor
Homepage https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/11473

Scaler 2 is an inspirational and powerful music theory workstation that gives you access to a world of new ideas, expressions and melodies. With powerful detection of MIDI and audio, Scaler 2 can determine what key and scale you’re in and suggest chords that match your music. The plugin helps you discover the perfect melody with performance expressions, and can even suggest ways to change from one key to another.

Scaler 2 makes finding chords and progressions intuitive and fun! It’s a comprehensive but easy-to-use toolbox that will help anyone make better music.

→ Benefits:

• Discover your music’s key and explore alternative scales, modes and chord sets
• Choose from hundreds of keys and modes, quickly build progressions in the sequencer
• Play melodic expressions, phrases, performances, sequences, basslines, melodies and rhythms written by professional musicians across various time signatures
• Establish your musical key and scale with audio detection as well as MIDI detection
• Create unique chords by searching & selecting from the circle of fifths or by entering note by note on your keyboard in Chord Create / Editor mode
• Chord Charts displays a guitar chord diagram for any chord and Fretboard Views allows you to explore the neck of your guitar
• Suggest Mode helps you add complexity and artistry to your chord progressions
• Discover chord substitutions that lend variety to your progressions and browse chord variations to get suspended, extended, dominant sevenths and jazz chords
• Experiment with Voice Grouping to spread notes across the keyboard and keep your chords within a certain range for voice leading
• Keys Lock helps you create emotive melodies by locking keys to your chords
• Modulation suggestions give you new ways to reach musical destinations
• Export MIDI to your DAW simply by dragging and dropping
• MIDI Capture lets you perform inside Scaler 2 and then export the results as MIDI
• Assign any VST / AU instrument to Scaler 2 to control your favourite synths or use over 45 internal electronic, acoustic and orchestral sounds
• Play and record one-finger chords and melodies using Scaler 2’s Bind MIDI function
• Generate bass lines adapted to your current scale and chords with Bass Mode
• Generate melody lines adapted to your current scale and chords with Melody Mode and Sequence Mode
• Change keys, performances, melodies and basslines on the fly by MIDI Mapping to your computer keyboard or MIDI Controller
• Get more natural-sounding melodies and expressions with the humanise and quantise function
• Navigate between modes and pages using keyboard commands or UI buttons
• Edit Modes for adjusting length, velocity, inversion, octave, timing and performances more per chord in a pattern
• Pad View helps you to arrange and play through multiple patterns and key switch between them
• Audition new progressions in context with DAW Sync playback and Auto Play
• Use the arpeggio or strum features to perform in real-time and synced to your DAW
• Chord editing and moving tools include lasso, drag n drop, replace and insert
• Sync multiple instances of Scaler to create a full track. Change one chord in the sync ‘leader’ and the all Scalers in sync ‘follow’ mode will respond.
• Multi Voice Output (Multi Midi Out) allows you to split each note of chords onto separate channels for complex arrangements.
• Chords can be played as passages which turns chords into subtle movements and grooves.

→ Content:
• Over 200 artist chord sets from the likes of Carl Cox, MJ Cole, The Temper Trap, Mitekiss, CeCe Rogers and Mike Huckaby
• Over 400 unique genre, common and mood-based chord sets such as Chill, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Cinematic, EDM, Metal
• Over 600 chord sets and hundreds of unique scales
• Over 500 phrases, performances, sequences, basslines, melodies and rhythms by professional musicians across various time signatures
• 45 internal electronic, acoustic and orchestral instruments created by award-winning producers
• Over one hundred artist created modulation pathways to get you from one key to another
• Over one hundred chord substitutions that lend variety to your progressions

→ How it Works

Detect
Scaler 2 can listen to incoming MIDI or audio data and detect the key your music is in. After this, it will suggest chords and chord progressions that will fit with your song. Scaler 2 can send MIDI to a virtual instrument in your DAW, and it has 45 onboard instruments to play with as well.

Chord Sets
Scaler 2 comes with over 400 song and genre-based chord sets and over 200 artist chord sets to inspire new progressions and melodies; plus, choose from hundreds of scales and modes to get your creative juices flowing. Simply drag the chords you want into the sequencer to build a pattern that’s unique to you.

Explore
Explore alternative chords that’ll fit with your progression, with loads of suggestions, voicings, chord extensions and variations on particular chords to help you choose the perfect feeling with every step of your song.

MIDI Capture
New Audio Detection Technology means you can detect and analyse chords and scales from existing audio sources. With MIDI Capture, you can record Scaler 2’s output – whether you’re clicking keys or chords, or playing progressions – in order to drag the resulting MIDI outside the plugin.

Create
Suggest mode gives you chords compatible with your chord progression. Lock keys to your chords to create complex melodies by intuitively moving around on your MIDI controller. Humanize Scaler 2’s performance by introducing variations to velocity and/or timing. Voice Grouping profiles let you automatically invert notes to restrict playback within certain octaves or by using open voicing.

Edit
Edit Mode lets you dial in Duration, Octave, Inversion and more parameters per chord, and there are new ways to edit chords when right-clicking. DAW Sync links your chord patterns to your DAW’s playback, making it easy to audition new progressions or alter existing chord patterns alongside your DAW project. Pad View makes it easy to construct entire arrangements, moving chords and whole progressions on a higher level.

Modulation
Scaler 2 makes Modulation Suggestions for movement between your current key and a destination. The majority of suggestions have been sourced from professional musicians, and some are generated algorithmically.

Performance
With Performances, Phrases, Sequences, Basslines, Melodies and Rhythms created by real pianists and musicians, Scaler 2 isn’t just about creating chords and arpeggios – it can lay down melodies as well. Over 500 Expressions let you experiment with riffs and melodies, which can be locked to notes of your scale or a chord.

Homepage https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/93-Music-Theory-Tools/6439-Scaler-2