Ableton Move [Archived]

Thanks for posting this, I‘m clearly out! Great for everyone already working mostly with Live / Samples. Cool to see they keep innovating!

Boring boring boring Ableton! Come on!

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In our MPC terms, it’s like having 16 Levels available alongside your regular pads.

I’d presume it’ll replicate what the Push 2 does on those pads when you’re in a Drum Program, which is similar, but it’ll also let you select pages within a Clip… hence there is a max of 16 bars per clip.

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Linking it with a little hardware synth looks like a load more fun

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Read entire manual. Workflow looks amazing. Lazy chop. Lofi stretch in drum sampler. TR style sequencing. P locks. Automation. Web based sample management. 64gb storage.

Love it. Dream machine for me.

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Sorry for the dumb question, I can’t find the info on lazy chop. Do you have a link to the section where it lays that out?

is there also regular timestretch?

It´s basically slice to pads in realtime. Your input signal will be recorded to the last pad you pressed, it´s quick and easy(lazy) and once done you can fine edit every pad to your liking.

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Not currently

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How do we think this stacks up to the MC-101? I just bought one second hand a couple of weeks ago.

On paper there’s a lot of similarities, but the Move looks hardware and interface look miles ahead. New vs new it’s no contest IMO, but a second hand MC-101 for half the price is a nifty deal.

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Ahhh I see, so you record in and press pads as you go? That sounds workable.

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no

It actually uses Note PB (MPE-ish) to do pad repitching. Quite odd.

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I’ll wait and see if this can midi clock to the digitakt via USB before purchasing I think

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Clock out, no clock in.

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I’ve watched the SonicState video but an yet to RTFM (sorry guys) and I have a question - Wavetable/Meld presets… Can they be created in Live and imported to Move? If I can do this, my fragile defences may be breached and I may hit the Buy button. Thinking not as they said the workflow is one-directional, but that may only apply to sets and not the sounds.

So… midi from Move to an instrument with midi 5 pin DIN in? how…

Probably not, everything I’m seeing is that it goes one way only with live

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On the 101 the synth engine is fully open, you can edit synth patches on the device itself. It has a random patch generator. What I also like is you can set a sound per clip, so a sound is not bound to a track. Resampling is a bit cumbersome, you have to use a looper track and export that clip.

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It’s not bad for £400 but I’d personally rather save a bit and pick up an MPC One which is infinitely more versatile and powerful.

It definitely competes well in the groovebox space though.

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