Ableton Note for iOS

cokomairena

I made a tutorial in Spanish

mistercharlie

The play first, then commit recording after method here is great once you get used to it, especially for overdubbing. I never really realized that this was such a useful feature (in Live).

Thanks to Note, I’m now having a way better time improvising and building melodies and drum parts in Live, too.

MatthewKay

An interesting tidbit from Ableton’s website that I haven’t seen mentioned:

“Then use Ableton Cloud to send your ideas straight to Live and pick up where you left off. If you don’t have Live yet, you can try it for free with the 90-day trial. And if you’ve already used your free trial, you can extend it for another 90 days by enabling Ableton Cloud with Note.“

R_2

Am I missing something or is there no volume control per pad in the drum rack?
Only way I can see is to adjust gain in the sample edit screen.

What’s with the clicks at the end of some kicks, occurs after assigning them (808, 909)

Tarekith

Sample gain and volume will do exactly the same thing, so yes that’s the only control you have per pad.

R_2

@Tarekith said:
Sample gain and volume will do exactly the same thing, so yes that’s the only control you have per pad.

I understand. Personally would prefer to have volume control on the same page as filter, pan, etc.
By the way, when I match volumes in a kit I often alternate between pads to find the right balance. But this is tricky as it would sometimes make that other pad jump down multiple dBs because my finger was still on the wave (not sliding up or down).

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Wrote my first Note

cokomairena

@R_2 said:

@Tarekith said:
Sample gain and volume will do exactly the same thing, so yes that’s the only control you have per pad.

I understand. Personally would prefer to have volume control on the same page as filter, pan, etc.
By the way, when I match volumes in a kit I often alternate between pads to find the right balance. But this is tricky as it would sometimes make that other pad jump down multiple dBs because my finger was still on the wave (not sliding up or down).

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Wrote my first Note

note to self! nice title!

Very nice first note!

cokomairena

F*ck the app police

JohnnyGoodyear

@Littlewoodg said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@ExAsperis99 said:
I'm getting really interesting stuff out of Note that doesn't sound like any other app.

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

When I return to England in my retirement I intend to write delicate post-Marple detective stories all set in the quiet thatched village of Gridless Nudging....

R_2

@cokomairena said:

@R_2 said:

@Tarekith said:
Sample gain and volume will do exactly the same thing, so yes that’s the only control you have per pad.

I understand. Personally would prefer to have volume control on the same page as filter, pan, etc.
By the way, when I match volumes in a kit I often alternate between pads to find the right balance. But this is tricky as it would sometimes make that other pad jump down multiple dBs because my finger was still on the wave (not sliding up or down).

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Wrote my first Note

note to self! nice title!

Very nice first note!

Gracias (in my best Spanish )

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symianbeatz

@Burner said:
Update number 2 in less than a week…you wonder why they’re bothering, the market is too small, the product is wrong, there’s no point, in anything. No wait, it’s just the Audiob.us forum and they probably don’t even bother reading it 😅🤣😆

For those with the app, Ableton are taking feedback using the ‘…’ bottom left on the Home Screen > Help > Feedback. Remember, being positive and encouraging is a choice 😉

Yeah but let's be real too, 2 updates and both were minor bug fixes, so there's a ways to go before we see what's truly in the works.. I bought and I'm reasonably happy with it, hope it flourishes into something truly worthy of the Ableton moniker

sonorafilms

Is it posible to pan the tracks in mixer view?

Jumpercollins

@sonorafilms said:
Is it posible to pan the tracks in mixer view?

No.

ExAsperis99

@Jumpercollins said:

@sonorafilms said:
Is it posible to pan the tracks in mixer view?

No.

Hopefully it will come. That seems to be a weird oversight.

anickt

@ExAsperis99 said:

@Jumpercollins said:

@sonorafilms said:
Is it posible to pan the tracks in mixer view?

No.

Hopefully it will come. That seems to be a weird oversight.

I've requested that through the in-app feedback. The more users that contact them about it the more likely we'll see it. Anyone who would like to see a feature implemented should do this or else how do they know what users would like to see? Posting here won't typically get to devs.

ExAsperis99

But it's so much easier to yell into the ether!

sonorafilms

@anickt said:

@ExAsperis99 said:

@Jumpercollins said:

@sonorafilms said:
Is it posible to pan the tracks in mixer view?

No.

Hopefully it will come. That seems to be a weird oversight.

I've requested that through the in-app feedback.

Me too.
It also needs a proper audio and midi setup page to choose your inputs, enable monitorig and things like that.
Maybe this is meant to be use just as a sketch pad

cokomairena

@sonorafilms said:
Maybe this is meant to be use just as a sketch pad

You might be into something there

espiegel123

@sonorafilms said:
....
**** Maybe this is meant to be use just as a sketch pad****

Which is pretty clearly the intention if you watch Ableton's intro video. It isn't a secret.

sonorafilms

If you have an Op-1 with the latest firmware you can open any app and sample directly to Note, even Youtube.
You have to load a sampler instrument on the Op-1, set sample gain to INF and enable USB audio. Go to the tape page and press the mic icon to enable incoming audio.
Note will see all Op-1 sound as the mic input.
I use this technique with Koala and it works with Note too

mistercharlie

@sonorafilms said:
If you have an Op-1 with the latest firmware you can open any app and sample directly to Note, even Youtube.
You have to load a sampler instrument on the Op-1, set sample gain to INF and enable USB audio. Go to the tape page and press the mic icon to enable incoming audio.
Note will see all Op-1 sound as the mic input.
I use this technique with Koala and it works with Note too

So it works as a Loopback connection? Any idea if it works with the OP-1 Field?

sonorafilms

@mistercharlie said:

@sonorafilms said:
If you have an Op-1 with the latest firmware you can open any app and sample directly to Note, even Youtube.
You have to load a sampler instrument on the Op-1, set sample gain to INF and enable USB audio. Go to the tape page and press the mic icon to enable incoming audio.
Note will see all Op-1 sound as the mic input.
I use this technique with Koala and it works with Note too

So it works as a Loopback connection? Any idea if it works with the OP-1 Field?

I don´t know if it works with the OP-1 field

natuurlijk

@Tarekith said:
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.

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.

Obvious but for the fact that they offer a lengthy free trial of Live and also the free Lite version - I’d say that anyone remotely curious about whether they want to have a full version on the computer will have already taken advantage of one of these options, and be well aware of how it works and if it suits them.

The Note app will perhaps entice them slightly but the main obstacle is presumably still the cost, which is not insignificant. Probably will drive some upgrades though, as It is certainly a very smooth transition from iPhone to laptop, having experienced it. My iPhone and iPad have only ever been for mucking about on. Ableton Note seems to leverage that tendency very well.

krassmann

I tried to make a track based on a drum loop loaded into sampler but I failed. I can't create a clip that plays the loop correctly because I fail to record a note that is exactly one bar or two bars. Any ideas?

Danny_Mammy

@krassmann said:
I tried to make a track based on a drum loop loaded into sampler but I failed. I can't create a clip that plays the loop correctly because I fail to record a note that is exactly one bar or two bars. Any ideas?

use trigger mode, just set clip length, press the note, click add, quantise 1/4 note. you need the sample loop tempo match for a perfect loop.

anickt

@Danny_Mammy said:

@krassmann said:
I tried to make a track based on a drum loop loaded into sampler but I failed. I can't create a clip that plays the loop correctly because I fail to record a note that is exactly one bar or two bars. Any ideas?

use trigger mode, just set clip length, press the note, click add, quantise 1/4 note. you need the sample loop tempo match for a perfect loop.

Here’s where you need a grid and the ability to set note lengths. Otherwise it can get tedious to get it just right when you know exactly what you want. I’ve sent in a feature request. This is one area that is not brilliant, but the overall experience is still fun and productive for me.

cokomairena

@anickt said:

@Danny_Mammy said:

@krassmann said:
I tried to make a track based on a drum loop loaded into sampler but I failed. I can't create a clip that plays the loop correctly because I fail to record a note that is exactly one bar or two bars. Any ideas?

use trigger mode, just set clip length, press the note, click add, quantise 1/4 note. you need the sample loop tempo match for a perfect loop.

Here’s where you need a grid and the ability to set note lengths. Otherwise it can get tedious to get it just right when you know exactly what you want. I’ve sent in a feature request. This is one area that is not brilliant, but the overall experience is still fun and productive for me.

Note lengths are a must, the grid is avoidable as you have quantized nudging.

cokomairena

Is there a way to copy a pad to another inside a drumrack?

cokomairena

@Danny_Mammy said:

@krassmann said:
I tried to make a track based on a drum loop loaded into sampler but I failed. I can't create a clip that plays the loop correctly because I fail to record a note that is exactly one bar or two bars. Any ideas?

use trigger mode, just set clip length, press the note, click add, quantise 1/4 note. you need the sample loop tempo match for a perfect loop.

No need to quantize if you press the note with the project stopped. (If you want it exactly at the beginning of the loop of course)