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How do you use your mobile devices in relation to Ableton?
And what devices do you use in that context: iPad, iPhone, Ableton Move, other..?
For those that use an iPad or iPhone, do you prefer Ableton Note, or some other app(s)? Or a combo?
Just getting into using Ableton, so thought I’d ask the good people here, and see what I might want to try. Or just hear about some of the good and not so good points about various options.
Thanks!
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Definitely start with Note. It’s cheap for what it is, and the workflow with Live is pretty seamless. I’m strongly considering adding a move to the mix, but honestly I don’t think Move does much that Note doesn’t do (sample chopping, velocity sensitivity, and I think that’s about it)
ETA: Also check out Knobbler and LK for some options to turn your iPad into an Ableton controller.
+1 for Knobbler, the greatest app to be created so far for control of Ableton with an iPad. You pick what you want to control across different Live devices on one screen. Versatile, graceful and very satisfying.
7III tap also worth a look at, good on an iPhone for note input and knob control.
Touchable Pro still working with Ableton 12 (and even with my very ancient 2012 iPad 2), but no developer support for some time now, so no guarantee it will work with future versions. Very comprehensive, fairly complicated and relatively expensive (for something that may not work for long), but even as just a track mixer it continues to give me joy.
I have a Move, it’s great, I love it, standalone and with Live, but for control Knobbler is the real scene stealier.
I use either an iphone or ipad and idam into my mac. I just find synths and play live into Ableton. Some times I will go into drum apps and sample them into drum rack. Quick and effective. This works great with youtube also. Some times I’ll load up radiounit on my phone and sample stuff off of that also. I haven’t done much midi stuff, I need to but haven’t had the need to. Also Note hasn’t thrilled me. I know how to use it but Logic is my go to on the ipad. I’m starting to look at FLstudio (thanks jwmmakerofmusic) as it’s a very capable daw on mobile devices and I can continue on FLstudio on the mac if needed.
I can see that if Logic is where you’re comfortable developing ideas, Note might seem unimpressive. Definitely a different beast (for example, I’ll be surprised if it ever supports AUv3 plugins). I will say this though, it’s developing at a rapid pace, and as of the latest releases it’s gained some powerful MIDI editing features.
Didn’t know about Knobbler - looks great!
Some interesting insights too, thanks folks.
It has and i understand it’s meant to be more of a scratch pad, song starter but i go through six tracks in Live in like three minutes. So the track limit just pushes me to do everything on my mac from start to finish.
Thanks for mentioning 7III Tap! We just released version 1.3: now with step sequencers, landscape mode (finally got that one done 😅), and a bunch of other improvements.
Excellent news, now I can Push all day in my studio and Tap away the evening on my sofa. That would be the dream anyway, if only the rest of life would stop getting in the way