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ScaleMaster

       iOS iPhone

Scales are elementary to all musicianship. They provide flavor and harmonic structure, but are at the same time fairly complex. ScaleMaster is designed to help in several key areas concerning scales. It lists over 100 scale types in all keys and shows them in music notation. There are four different clefs available (treble, bass, alto and tenor). Additionally scale degrees are shown qualified by the interval to the root. To help visualization there are four virtual instruments (bass, guitar, mandolin and piano). These virtual instruments feature overlays that can show scale degrees or position of a note in the current scale and can be shifted to all available positions.

Scales are selected with the scale picker. The scale picker features 3 columns - one for picking the root, one for picking the kind of scale and lastly a third column to assign a rating to a scale. A Play button in the picker window allows playing the current selection even before dismissing the window. The notation display is automatically updated with each new selection. Light text coloring as well as the scale type indicator help easily distinguishing between different types .

All instruments can be shifted into different positions by using the arrow buttons in the middle of the screen. For stringed instruments a roman numeral appears in the left corner of the instrument to indicate the current position as well as fret indicators on the neck.

ScaleMaster has a facility to match chords with scales. This topic arises when practicing a solo over changes for example. To start just tap the chord matcher icon and then select the chord inquestion in the left picker column. The second column will then automatically present a choice of scales that match the chord in question. The notation view presents chord tones in red. When tapping the play button ScaleMaster will play the scale first and then the chord.

Designed for the beginning musician as well as the professional, ScaleMaster is an excellent tool towards advancement in theory and scales in particular, making it easy to look up a scale in seconds, getting a taste of the flavor of a particular scale by listening to it, or finding out how to play it on one’s instrument.

Please make sure to contact us directly at the email address listed below with any issues or suggestions as we are not privy to comments in most countries. For more screenshots and several videos of the application in action, please visit the website indicated below.

Features:
- 211 scale definitions
- 4 different scale views (up, down or 2 combinations)
- virtual bass, guitar, mandolin and piano instruments
- alto, bass, tenor and treble clefs
- adjustable positions for all instruments
- adjustable tuning for all string instruments
- fully supports landscape and portrait orientations
- lockable interface
- semitone indicators
- scale rating
- scale type indicator (i.e. pentatonic)
- support for left-handed players
- chord/scale matching
- intuitive interface with movable setting dialogs
- displays note names, scale index or degree
- adjustable playback directions (up, down, up-down, down-up)
- high quality bass, guitar, mandolin and piano samples
- support for sound libraries

What's new

- supports transposition into Bb, Eb and F instrument notation
- support for esoteric scale roots
- several graphic fixes

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Last changed:

Apr 30, 2012

Category:

Music

Developer:

RoGame Software

Version:

2.3.0

Average Rating:

3.00 (59)

Size:

14.1 MB

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