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I love the lack of grid and hope they never add one. (Or if they do, allow it to be turned off.)
It feels more like playing different instruments and letting their sound influence the way you groove, instead of letting notational considerations dictate music.
I got more music last night rockin out with the clay flute than I got in 6 years of childhood flute lessons. This app delightfully removes the barriers between hearing a phrase and reflexively grooving a complimentary phrase, response phrase or embellishment.
I do also like the fact that with this much easy good stuff production, it can transfer seamlessly to Ableton for setting up follow actions in Live or animating parameters with the Push.
Watching iOS music apps develop over the years, there have been key points where you see previously cumbersome musical activities suddenly become “cheap” - so accessible and productive that older techniques seem as outdated as the whale blubber industry. Good sampling and sample mangling tools made purchasing sample sets less appealing. MIDI motif generators made it less appealing to hoard midi clips. Note takes it another step for me making self created groove background music faster than scrolling through Apple Music to find my ideal music for the moment.
Even at the Note only stage, I can make grooves that I get lost in listening to for a half hour of continuous play. And if that gets old in the middle of a walk, two minutes of adding another track and a few clips freshens it up to provide the right background for the next bit of time.
It’s surprising close to iterating musical phrases in your head, and the transition from musical thinking to using a music production tool is non-jarring and quick enough to be non-disruptive. It’s pretty rare to have instrument access, playing skills, recording ability, multi tracking and DAW readiness all this instantly ready in one Home Screen app.
It’s a real gem.
Haven’t bought this yet, but the quick recording interface does intrigue me.
No idea, but it works fine on my iphone 6s so I guess is not that CPU intensive
No AFAIK
No AFAIK, it's certainly not made to export full songs, just demos, you don't have a master channel for example
Yes, you can have more local projects, I wouldn't think there is a limit
Having been part of this app‘s development from the very beginning I can tell you there was never once the mention that this would drive people to want to buy Live. All discussions were around the fact that this lets people who use Live create the basis of ideas to work on later when they are at their laptops. If people can use it totally standalone to create their music, even better.
Definitely not some nefarious plot to get people to eventually pay more for Live though.
Thanks, so a custom kit is saved with the project only, that’s a pity..
Wish it had project export in standard format, then it would have been great for the Akai Force too.
Yep, you would have to make a template project and duplicate it...
But the focus of the app is it's randomness, each time you start a new project or even add a track you have a new patch loaded, so it forces you out of your confort zone.
Maybe there will be an Akai update down the road?
So you are saying Note is more of a retention perk? Like "Hey, if you use Live already, here's a cool app that you can pair with your mobile device and your desktop to make even better use of Live to throw down an idea anywhere and then Liven it up on your desktop effortlessly".
For a lot of V10 users, me included, V11 doesn't offer that many new desirable features for the upgrade cost, and since V10 is still updated and supported there's been no urgency to do so. The only things that I'd be interested in are the new devices, in particular the Inspired by Nature, but at my current upgrade offer price it's just not value for money. If there's a sale, then at some point I'll update, and then the app might be more attractive too. At the moment though we're more focused on being able to pay our sudden tripled energy bills and doubled shopping costs.
That's quite surprising, since it's obviously going to do just that, along with nudging a large number of V10 users into an upgrade. Not suggesting it's a 'nefarious plot', but weird that no-one noticed the obvious commercial benefits for their latest desktop product.
It seems unlikely to me that a mobile app like Note would be a significant driver of new Live suite purchases. I would hazard to guess that AB forum users are not representative of their core business.
I am probably not a great bellwether, but I've been in the market for a new workflow and DAW, and this very app has absolutely inspired me to revisit Ableton. If there's a big sale, I just might jump in, although they have that evil-genius pricing where Standard is probably just fine but Suite is so much more expensive but so much better appointed.... Bastards.
Why have you limited users of the app to this forum? It doesn’t even have Audiobus connectivity. It’ll reach a larger audience of music makers since it’s a standalone, cheap app, and have a direct connection to their desktop software.
Whether or not it was considered or intended, the end result will be an increase in new Live sales and upgrades.
Here comes one now…
You get a heck of a lot more stuff with the Suite - definitely worth it.
You’re a bass player like me aren’t you? The clip launcher view is a lot of fun for recording live instruments - you can build up tracks really quickly this way.
I’m starting to talk myself into the update….when’s the next sale?
Update - looks like they have a Black Friday sale sometimes, so I’ll hang on until then.
The ‘randomness’ is good, I like that. But preset kits will always have their set of sounds (808, 909, etc). I want a mix of that and add a few of my own. Having to set that up every time might not be fast & fun.
A random kit compiler would be cool though
11 also has mpe , comping, and tempo following. To me, those are pretty significant features.
Note probability as well, which I hope comes to Note.
Not to me, unfortunately.
It does now!
lol
Such a fun and rewarding app.
A little late night Groove for the adventurous:
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0b8YSdE0bCadtkdrVYEIK53rA#Astronomical_Headings
👊🏼™️
any thoughts on how this one compares to Groovebox (the Ampify one)
Groovebox exports songlength stuff as full on Ableton Live Sets, Midi and Audio (openable on Bitwig which is sweet if you have it)
it’s a income stream for their sound sets, which is odious for some.
One is live play only (with nudges) one is midi programming only
Groovebox is somewhere between Note and Gadget features wise. Note is very Ableton (they’ve really looked at enabling creativity, really reminds me of the ideas in their book https://makingmusic.ableton.com/)
etc
there are a lot of fun .als exporters. I think i read someone here on the forum say the TriqTraq seems very Live 1.0
I love Groovebox specially for its awesome sounds and being able to export projects to Ableton, but Note uses instruments that you can actually edit inside of Ableton. I have Ableton 11 Suite and it’s amazing being able to edit and tweak the wavetable synth. What I’ve been doing the last few days is using Ableton Link with Groovebox and Note, and using up to 7 tracks in notes and recording tracks with Groovebox along side, then exporting the tracks from Groovebox as wav files and importing them into Note and importing them to an empty drum rack and triggering the samples, then sending it all to Ableton
The difference between Groovebox vs Note is that you're exporting midi and audio with Groovebox, but with Note, you're able to export to native Ableton devices and synths - which is pretty awesome for additional tweaking. Both have their place, I recently re-installed Groovebox to revisit it.
Note will get sound packs soon enough. Actually, I'm hoping for more synth presets.
Note has waaaay more included sounds, but it doesn't have as much control.
AFAIK in groovebox you can't import or record your own samples, Note let's you import and also record sounds.
I think one of Groovebox's real strengths is all the pre-recorded patterns for each sound. It's really quick to knock together an idea, randomize some of the patterns, and get something happening without ever having to play or program a note. You don't have to have any musical ability at all, just a good ear, to make some really nice sounding jams.
Note is kind of the opposite in that you HAVE to play everything live.
If they allow us to create our own presets on Ableton live, import them to Ableton note as user presets via the cloud this app could become EPIC!
For me, if they just beefed up the clip launching a bit (I dunno feels awkward) and allowed for unlimited scenes that’d be pretty epic itself
A little Ableton Note Jam
And here a quick video on how to export and process the audio with wavebox
It's still mostly on my dresser (along with that twenty dollar bill she left me Officer), but this is exactly what I felt playing with it for a few minutes AND LARGELY BECAUSE OF THE GRIDLESS NUDGING
Never know how falling in love (even a little bit) is going to happen...
there really is no substitute for gridless nudging
Was just about to refer to the great lost Evelyn Waugh novel, “Gridless Nudging” lol