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The best songwriting helpers

Plugin Boutique

Scaler 2

As a MIDI effect, Scaler 2 can control any software or hardware sound generator. With just one finger you can play impressive chord progressions, arpeggios or strummings. You can fall back on 200 ready-made chord sets for countless styles and numerous scales. The plug-in is also a great help when creating catchy melodies. In practice, Scaler 2 shines as an extremely effective tool that facilitates the creation of catchy chord progressions.

www.pluginboutique.com | 38Euros

Mixed In Key

Captain Plugins Epic

Whether chord progressions, arpeggios, hook or bass lines, beats or melodies are required: Working with Sundog is a real pleasure and leads to appealing results incredibly quickly. The standalone application can play the hardware or software sound generator of your choice or export MIDI files. In just 10 minutes you can create songs that you can then further develop in your DAW. An excellent songwriting tool with convenient operation.

www.mixedinkey.com | 99US-Dollar

Christian Hengst

Tonaly

The EZkeys series of plug-ins are great sources of creative ideas that make it easy to create exciting chord progressions and sequences. Electronic Pop is dedicated to contemporary synth sounds for pop and dance, including basses, leads, keys, plucks, pads, and even vocal chops. The high-quality phrase library inspires with flexibly customizable patterns and chord progressions. Convenient analysis and arranging functions make the plug-in a powerful songwriting tool with an enormous fun factor.

www.tonaly.app | from9US-Dollar

FeelYourSound

Sundog Song Studio

The MIDI effect Phrasebox combines arpeggiator and step sequencer in an original way: Incoming chords with up to 8 notes are split rhythmically and tonally. A separate sequencer track is available for each note. Phrasebox offers an interesting approach to creating independent patterns that can be extensively varied in real time via the keyboard. Numerous random options as well as programmable controller tracks ensure

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