ScaleBud 2 is an AUv3 MIDI keyboard plugin designed for mobile musicians to ensure performance accuracy by constraining MIDI input to specific musical scales. It offers advanced routing, custom scale creation, and multi-row keyboard configurations for use in host apps like AUM or Cubase.
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The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
For Music producers and live performers using iOS-based digital audio workstations who require real-time MIDI scale correction and mapping.
What does it look like?
Key features
Automatically rounds off-scale notes to the nearest note within a selected scale during MIDI input.
Supports unlimited keyboard rows with independent key, scale, and chord configurations, including MIDI keyboard splitting.
Provides over 110 built-in scales with the ability to create custom scales and share them across the developer's ecosystem.
Allows for an unlimited number of pattern pages that can be toggled via MIDI CC messages.
How much does it cost?
Velocity
Maintenance developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: maintenance.
Who built it?
Cem Olcay
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What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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The Analyst's Read
Key takeaways for ScaleBud 2 AUv3 MIDI Keyboard
Where is it heading?
Bottom line
While the app provides powerful MIDI processing capabilities, users report significant friction regarding the inability to save state in standalone mode.
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