ScaleMaster 1.5 for iPhone and iPod Touch Released

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.

Scale and root selection in version 1.5 have been joined into a half-screen dialog that updates the notation display live and allows to play scales immediately before dismissing the window. Version 1.5 also introduces a new streamlined interface with larger controls for the 4 virtual instruments. An added lock function allows to lock the interface with only the current instrument interface remaining active. Playback has been optimized and and extra option to add an octave to the end of each scale has been added.

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.