![]() ![]() ScaleMaster is a tool and as with any tool, what you get out of it greatly depends on your use. Instruments: Banjo, Bass, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Viola, Violin Adjustable tuning for string instruments.A full general MIDI sound library is included with 128 sounds on iOS and over 200 on macOS. Other things ScaleMaster can do include changing the clef and adjusting the tuning of string instruments. What makes ScaleMaster really stand out is of course its fantastic support of music notation including double sharps or flats and indication of halftone (semitone) steps. This feature allows to open up and enrich the improviser's palette and give him or her an alternative to the go-to choice. This is reflected in the notation view which highlights chord tones in red and displays a chord symbol below the scale title. ![]() The resulting group of scales then fully consists of only scales including all chord tones. ScaleMaster allows to filter down the existing vocabulary of 211 scales with 41 of the most common chord structures. The chord/scale realtionship is of particular importance to improvising musicians. Additional playback functions include count-in and auto-reverse. These can be adjusted in speed and used as play-along exercise. Documents also allow for instrument recordings. Each document is set to a specific instrument and saves scale information as well as instrument position. Scale configurations are saved in exercise documents that can be shared. Light text coloring as well as the scale type indicator help easily distinguishing between different types. The notation display is automatically updated with each new selection. Scales are listed by name in a master list that also contains additional information like type. In any case it is always good to have a great reference handy. That is because there are so many different fingerings. And there is a lot of ground to cover especially for those playing a string instrument. Most of us start out with a one-octave major scale and then slowly graduate to more octaves, scale types and different scale patterns. Scales are at the center of much of what we are practicing on our instruments. ![]()
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