Intellijel Designs Scales

A great quantizer - feature rich and intuitive

Loads of functionality packed into a small HP footprint

Not only a dual quantizer but also a sequencer

Exceptional build quality as is always the case from Intellijel

A very complex and powerful module

It is an extremely powerful module that does more than just quantizing (triggering, intervals via a dual output and even sequencing).

That being said, it is not exactly intuitive and does require reading the manual (which has 51 pages) to fully understand it.

So, if you like eurorack for the intuitive knob per function/visual approach it might not feel just right, but if you do not mind having to spend a bit of time to understand it functionality and possibilities it is very versatile.

Also, the build quality is great, the buttons feel responsive and are also very visual with the changing colours of the LEDs.

Complicated but powerful

Does everything it's supposed to do very well.

Pros: Does lots of things, does them well and is quite compact.

Cons: Because it does so much in so little space it's not intuitive to use and requires a fair bit of manual reading to get into anything beyond simple quantizing.

Solid quantizer, great sequencer

Probably the most versatile quantizer in the eurorack world right now.

Dual channel quantizing, with the possibility to transpose one channel (with various transposition settings) is the main purpose of the module, but there's also a really simple to use Roland-style sequencer hidden in there - you can type in a bunch of notes in a row then the sequencer will play them on each incoming trigger, making the module play really nicely with non-regular triggers, e.g. euclidian patterns.

The only downside is the lack of transposition without running in an external signal, would be great to be able to say "hey bump this up an octave/fifth". However, the shift/transpose mode is still really solid without (can even shift between saved scales!)