Cales – Your Personal Harmonic Navigator
In the world of music, precision matters. The Cales plugin from CodeFN42 is a tool designed to keep you always in harmony. It acts as your personal navigator, ensuring that every keystroke on your MIDI keyboard sounds correct within the context of your chosen musical scale.
How It Works and Advantages
The main idea behind Cales is that it dynamically maps incoming MIDI notes to the nearest valid notes within your chosen scale. This means you can play freely without fear of “wrong” notes. The plugin automatically corrects played notes, guiding them to the nearest scale degrees. This greatly simplifies the playing process, allowing you to concentrate on musicality, rhythm, and emotions. Cales makes complex aspects of music theory more accessible for practical application, helping musicians of any level quickly achieve harmonious sound.
“Easy Mode” and Scale Library
One of the outstanding features of Cales is its “easy mode”. In this mode, you can play any of the available scales using only the white keys of your MIDI keyboard. In this case, the “C” key always acts as the tonic. This makes mastering new scales and quick improvisation extremely easy.
Cales comes with a rich library containing over 20 different musical scales. This selection gives you a wide space for musical exploration. Moreover, you can easily add your own scales. This feature opens the door to experimenting with unique harmonic structures, microtonal music, or playing scales characteristic of specific musical traditions.
Key Features:
- Always play “in key”.
- Simplifies learning and understanding scales.
- “Easy mode” for playing with white keys.
- Over 20 built-in scales.
- Ability to create custom scales.
- Allows you to focus on creativity and improvisation.
- Suitable for any experience level.
- Available as a VST plugin for Windows (32/64 bit).
Use Cases:
- Music Writing: Quickly find harmonic ideas.
- Improvisation: Allows you to freely explore modes.
- Learning: Practice scales and modes.
- Live Performances: Reduce the risk of mistakes.
- Experiments: Explore new harmonies.
Conclusion
Cales from CodeFN42 is a powerful and intuitive MIDI tool that simplifies the music creation process. It is a valuable addition to the arsenal of any musician seeking to achieve impeccable harmony and expand creative horizons, especially when working with a MIDI keyboard in a DAW on Windows. Try Cales and feel how easy it can be to always stay “in key”!
