Ableton Move

SpookyZoo

MIDI Sync is a very welcome update.

https://www.ableton.com/en/release-notes/move-1/

MatthewKay

Coming in late Jamuary:

https://www.decksaver.com/product/move-cover/

Crabman

@SpookyZoo said:
MIDI Sync is a very welcome update.

https://www.ableton.com/en/release-notes/move-1/

It‘s still not to receive midi clock. You can now SEND clock while also receivimg notes. Still useless for me. But it‘a just a matter of time til clock in works.

rs2000

@Crabman said:

@SpookyZoo said:
MIDI Sync is a very welcome update.

https://www.ableton.com/en/release-notes/move-1/

It‘s still not to receive midi clock. You can now SEND clock while also receivimg notes. Still useless for me. But it‘a just a matter of time til clock in works.

Absolutely. A hardware groovebox needs to support MIDI clock slave sync but I'm not surprised that Ableton hasn't done it, they've been unnecessarily cautious with their clock slave implementation in Ableton Live and I suppose it's more or less the same team of developers.

steve99

How to use Teenage Engineering M1 headset mic with Move? Success with Nux Mighty Plug Pro.

I’ve been trying to engineer my way round this for a while, the M1 headphones are great when wanting a lightweight set up with a mic. They have a TRRS 4 pole plug, but the Move input requires TRS 3 pole line level.

So, the problem was how to supply plug-in power to the headset mic (I presume that’s what it needs, not entirely sure though) and boost the signal to line level. I had success with the Joyo Momix Pro, but still a little too bulky for convenient use.

Then I remembered the Nux Mighty Plug Pro accepts a TRRS mic input via its headphone jack. After a lot of head scratching I cobbled together the right cables and now I have the mic loud and clear going into Move’s sampler and the output back to the headphones.

I’ve not had to configure the Mighty Plug Pro at all, it just seems to work. In theory of course it means I can also use it for its intended purpose of electric guitar into Move, that’ll be my next adventure, but happy for now to have the mic working.

Cables are:

From headset:
Female TRRS splitter to twin TRS male
(Headphone plug to Move headphone out, mic plug to 2nd splitter)
From Mighty Plug Pro:
Male TRRS splitter to twin TRS female
(Mic socket to headset splitter, headphone socket to Move line input via short 3.5mm regular TRS mini jack cable).

I hope that helps someone (probably/possibly if you own some of those bits and pieces anyway). It’s taken me ages to work out how to combine Move and the M1 headset relatively gracefully, major Eureka moment now it’s working.

steve99

Further to the above successful test with the Teenage Engineering M-1 headset, in my travels I came across the Behringer BC12 headphone cable with boom mic. Costs under £10 and adds a functional mic to any headphones with a 3.5mm mini jack socket.

This has enabled me to ‘upgrade’ my Aiaiai headphones (which I love for making music, compared to the M-1 which are mostly just for convenience). All sounds good and clear with Move (via the Nux Mighty Plug Pro).

The Behringer cable has an off switch too, to turn the mic off.

steve99

…and continuing my personal journey. Now able to feed Move into Loopy Pro (with headset mic) and back to my headphones.

Had to use another audio interface with an aux line in (a very ancient line6 sonic port in this case), as at the moment you can get audio to the iPad from Move via usb-c, but not back the other way (except in Control Live mode).

Sending midi from Move to the iPad via Bluetooth widiflex dongle. Both devices using Ableton Link for sync.

Main purpose of all this is to live sample into Move from my mic/guitar, play/sequence a melody/loop on Move, record to Loopy, rinse and repeat.