But RC has the great advantage of brilliant humanizing and logical randomization. I can come up with a great progression and test it agains picture in far less time then using RC. Scaler has the advantage of speed and intuition. RC is a more formal music theory app and, to me, is much slower to get going in. I feel as though I’ve stated this before but to reiterate, I think both of these apps work well together. Developers keep making Scaler and RapidComposer bigger. This is my opinion only and I will not argue. Like progressions, and chord suggestions, it’s been a long time since I asked for possibilities for negative harmony to be integrated. It is overcome because they are simple mathematics, but it would be more suitable for musicians to write down the musical figures that are used worldwide in Western music. In the same way, writing rhythmic values also creates confusion. And having to manually type in such a common chord in the harmony that I’ve learned just seems to me confusing. For my convenience, an A6 is an A6 and an A13 is an A13. I write for orchestra and many of the dilemmas that arise in the forum concern guitars. I would ask Scaler for things that others won’t share because, as I said, we don’t all have the same way of writing. Everyone chooses the workflow that works best for them.Īnyway, all things considered, I don’t think RC is expensive for everything it allows me to do. I could learn to use RC better as a VST in a DAW, but I prefer to use it as a separate application and not get into more studies that would take time away from making music. I use very little RC as a VST in a DAW, and for that Scaler is much faster and more practical. The learning curve is quite a bit steeper in RC, but I’m over it and now I’m comfortable. And I totally agree that Scaler is much easier to use than RC. On the other hand, although as I have said, both programs allow you to generate chords and chord progressions, personally, as a classical musician (of a conservatory) I adapt better to the way RC does it. Furthermore, RapidComposer can also be used as a VSTi in any DAW. You can also take all the content you have worked on to any other DAW, and continue there. Also, you can embed Scaler into a track, or bring the chord progression saved in Scaler to RapidComposer’s master track, and do the variations there. The generation of rhythmic accompaniments for guitars, strings, etc. can be generated and saved for later use. Everything can be tested before deciding, variations on chord inversions, rhythms, etc. It’s a DAW for me, with the ability to generate progressions (you can also use the built-in ones, which are many).
The point is that RapidComposer can act as a completely independent application. Since I have RapidComposer as well, I’m not going to ask Scaler to integrate RC stuff so that it costs more money. Many times we ask for things and more things from Scaler, when it is a very cheap add-on for everything it does. Scaler is a great plugin for editing progressions and can be used as a Vsti as well as a VSt for audio detection. For my way of writing, both are very useful. It is difficult to make comparisons, since they are different products.
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** (30 seconds later … beat me to it, and yes, let’s see what V3 brings)įWIW, (probably not much) my view of vertical, focussed, software is that I prefer to look for integration and co-existence of specialised apps - I prefer an inch wide and a mile deep to a mile wide and an inch deep. what do your see as the big hitting points of RC over Scaler ?Īs a caveat here, I don’t have RC, nor have I studied it, so it would be informative to have a comment from experienced users like or about where the main overlaps are and any obvious shortfalls in Scaler. RC is 342% more than Scaler as at the time of typing, so it would be interesting to get your take on which RC functions you would choose if it was limited to 3 only i.e. You mean as in replicating all or a significant proportion of RC functions in Scaler ?Īs a personal take, when comparing product functions, I always do a ‘bang for buck’ sanity check. Good to have the same features as the RC in the Scaler
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