InstaScale Black Friday Deal 2026: $27.60, 60% off

InstaScale Black Friday deals start at 60% off, which takes this scale-based MIDI plugin from W. A. Production to $27.60 until Nov 29, 2026.

It is a MIDI processor with only 16 playing keys, built around relative notes instead of a fixed keyboard layout.

The maker says that is more than enough, because every key can play different notes depending on the scale, the last note and the key's assigned action.

What is the InstaScale plugin?

InstaScale ships as a VST instrument plugin and an AU MIDI effect plugin. It takes the MIDI coming from your controller and swaps it for the processed notes.

In VST mode, you route the output to any other instrument through your host's routing functions. The AU version works as a MIDI effect in hosts that support that type, such as Logic Pro X.

Because it only processes MIDI, the sound comes from whatever instrument you point it at.

How do the playing keys work?

Each of the 16 playing keys has two menus. The mapping menu sets where the key sits on your controller. The action menu sets what it does, from static values like Home or Repeat to relative ones like +2 or -3.

The plugin works out the note from that offset and the previous note.

The maker says you can never hit a wrong note, and that you can play from a drum pad or kit by mapping the pads to the keys.

Main features

• Relative playing instead of the static one-note-per-key layout
• Built-in scales including Major, Minor, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, Spanish, Arabic, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, Blues, In Sen and Hirajoshi
• Home note you can move from the root to any other note of the scale, for playing modes or following chord changes
• Control keys for Root, Scale, Home and Octave, including switch keys that jump straight to a set value
• Poly mode, where stacked keys build chords
• Octave shifter for output, plus an input octave shift
• Pass through mode to bypass the plugin and play the target instrument normally
• Editing and adding your own scales (full version only)

In Poly mode the order of notes matters. In C major, a Home key plus two stacked +2 keys gives a C major chord (C+E+G), and each note is calculated from the one processed before it.

What can you use it for?

The maker lists learning scales and modes, ear training, experimenting for ideas, live sets and serious playing as uses.

The home feature lets you sit on one note and hear how it relates to the rest of the scale, which suits interval and mode training.

The interface adds readouts, virtual keyboards and graphics to help you see what the scale is doing.