Scalable solves a longstanding challenge in Ableton Live: how to write and perform songs with modal interchange or complex chord progressions, without sacrificing the benefits of “in scale” grid layouts.
Normally, shifting between modes means disabling scale constraints entirely and falling back to a chromatic layout — breaking visual feedback, pitch-based effects, and MPE support. Scalable sidesteps this by remapping Live’s underlying tuning infrastructure. You can keep the same familiar layout, but the scale it represents can change dynamically — per section, per gesture, or in real time.
What makes this innovative isn’t just the flexibility — it’s the fact that all of Live’s scale-aware features continue to work. You can modulate across 28 different modes, retune an ensemble mid-phrase, or slide between harmonic systems without breaking expressive gestures. Scale becomes a controllable parameter — not a limitation.
