D'Scales app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 7216 ratings )

Utilities Music
Developer: DAddario & Company, Inc.

0.99 USD

Current version: 2.0.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 13 May 2009
App size: 25.77 Mb

DScales is a complete guitar scale and arpeggio library brought to you by DAddario & Company, Inc., the worlds largest manufacturer of musical instrument accessories.

This app is a companion to DAddarios #1 selling guitar chord app, "DChords."

DScales puts a massive library of guitar scales, modes and arpeggios into the palm of your hand. This revolutionary app will help you unlock the secret of guitar scales, modes and arpeggios in any key, for any position on the guitar.

Offering over 10,000 patterns, left-handed view and alternate tunings, DScales is the most complete scale application on any platform. With an interface truly optimized for iPhone and iPod touch, you can swipe your finger up and down the fretboard to hear ascending and descending scales or tap the screen to hear individual notes. Youll hear the scales, modes and arpeggios come to life, played by a skilled professional guitarist. Multiple positions of each scale, mode and arpeggio exist, to ensure that youll always find a unique way to apply your new-found knowledge.

DScales includes:

- More than 10,000 scale, mode and arpeggio shapes
- Basic Major, Minor, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Major and Minor Pentatonic, Blues and Chromatic scales
- Modes for Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian
- Unbelievable advanced, jazz and world music scales including Harmonic Major, Enigmatic, Man Gong, Ritusen and Hungarian scales
- Major, Minor, Dominant, Diminished and Augmented arpeggios, including 7th chords arpeggios
- User-selectable display of note names, intervals or fingerings
- Left-handed viewing option
- Supports 8 different alternate tunings
- "Swipe to play" functionality
- Switch on "big stretches" for unique, challenging fingerings
- Works in both portrait or landscape mode for the ultimate in flexibility

For the cost of a few guitar picks, DAddarios DScales will take your playing to the next level.

DScales was developed by Audiofile Engineering, a leading developer of audio software for Mac OS X and the iPhone.

Pros and cons of D'Scales app for iPhone and iPad

D'Scales app good for

great app... every scale imaginable plus simple to use and nice sound too - highly recommended :)

Tested all the apps. This one is perfect. Worth the price compared to all the free or pseudo free apps

The app is good but, to get 5 stars must have two small-big things: play-along function and visualize any scales on a single string...Just an individual string! This changes will be great to study! It´s my only critique.

I love this. For 2 bucks it contains every scale you can imagine and its fully interactive. Keep up the great work planet waves. Also check out chordmaster

5 stars anyways, great product very well done, but I hope that Planet Waves will come with a patch soon to correct that annoying bug. Other than that Its the most useful scale reference tool I own. Good work

This app is invaluable, especially for the incredibly small price tag. Disappointed that theres no drop tuning and 7&8 string guitar on here, but Id suffice to say thats on future updates (fingers crossed for us ERG guys!) Great resource regardless though.

Some bad moments

I use alternate tunings, but no playable scales show up. I have contacted them twice in six months. Still no scales. Why offer tunings if they dont work. There must be better apps for scales.

The old version of this and Chordmaster were much better, in too many ways to list here. I would provide direct feedback to the company if I could, but the in-app support link is broken.

So they took the time to remake an all new interface and change the graphical apearance of the app but still fail to provide alternate tuning. Not even D drop work, come on, thats so lazy. Great app if you use standard tuning though.

Not only the design is awful, but the app does not work at all. Horrible.

Although it claims to support a handful of alternate tunings, most scales are unavailible for anything but standard tuning. I bought this to have a reference for scales in DADGAD and Open D, but for almost every scale I select while using these tunings I get the message: "No playable scales". This program would be awesome if they fixed this and gave us the option of creating our own custom tunings. As it is right now, its a good program if you only play in standard tuning.

Planet Waves informed me that it will be fixed in next update, but no date was given.

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