The Dispossessed Orangutan

Affinity deprecated their forums last month and told folks who wanted to learn workarounds for the lack of basic features or the pernicious bugs that seemed to take forever to fix to sign up on a Discord server. I frequently use Affinity Designer v2 and prefer it to Illustrator because it feels more comfortable and less like an engineering program. Still, most of the time, I wished it were being maintained and developed by a small operation of go-getters rather than a 12-tone styled bureaucracy of professional irresponsibility representatives. The rate of tangible improvement via periodic updates was glacially slow, and, like so many org-chart-developer software products, bugs seemed to be introduced more frequently than fixes. Despite the product's decade-long existence, many basic features are still missing. I doubt Canva's AI subscription system will address any of the down-and-dirty workflow hindrances that humans who want to work with vector art face while using Affinity products. I guess it is time to start learning the arcane ways of Vectorstyler and hope for the best.

"The hand naturally wants to rest on its heel" 30 years and counting. Everything from Notepad++ to RX* Advanced :

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Hi @davidec Thank you for taking the time to consider the comments I have made. Thank you.

Yes Yes, MIDI. I do understand that there are limitations to identifying a scale due to not enough information, but the program could be improved to elicit that information from the musician using it. A challenge-response function such as "add a melody you hear in your head to the chords" or add some "chords to the melody." These are the kinds of questions a learned mentor might ask if they were helping you evolve as a musician. Of course, the holy grail would be an app that could recognize and identify modulations. That idea seems to be lying over the horizon and out of sight of these sorts of helper apps. What I don't understand is leaving the application to function as is while piling on a bunch of goober bloat in the extra content folder. It seems like it is becoming just another variant of new and improved creativity in a bottle. It's starting to remind me of the early 2000's SONAR dev shell game paradigm. .

Sadly, Scaler seems to be devolving towards a focus on promising instant song creation rather than serious chord melody analysis. I use it by feeding it chord progressions that I have "composed" by ear, a task which was purportedly Scaler's purpose. But, after it does its best job at analysis, I still have to guess which one of its guesses most closely describes the scale hidden within the movement of the chords I have supplied. I don't need an endless collection of arpeggios, bass lines, beats, etc. to lay on top of my progression. I already hear those in my head. I wanted to use Scaler as a fast and convenient way to identify scales and suitable harmonies, and it has not proven to be especially good at that. I expected more, but I have found that each update has accustomed me to receiving less.

I'm glad I bought the full bundle, plus Timeless, for $498 back on 07/19/2013. I've enjoyed over a decade of pleasure using these plugins. That is 3931 days to date, or 12.668532180106843042482828796744 pennies per day for you penny pinchers. I think I am going to get R2 while its 58% off and probably going to upgrade to Volcano 3 while it's 75.5% off.

Thank you for taking the time to make and post the screen shot. Thank you.

Screen Shots or it didn't happen. Let's see that new improved UI. .