Well, I would have been disappointed not to have been disappointed.
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Kind of wild how thereās groove boxes from decades ago with plenty more features than can be expected today. I honestly canāt help but think that a lot of these limitations are contrived.
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Yeah, imagine telling a guy in 2004, when the first monomachine came out, what grooveboxes do in 2024. āReally ? 20 years for this ?ā
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Hilarious
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3 hours battery life ā¦. Still looks like a cool set of features. Interested to see how sample slicing works
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Yeah, Iād like to see some sources on this bit. I think that first hardware pic looked legit but this raises red flags.
But if what they are saying is trueā¦.
4 tracks and 3 hours of battery? That would be awful. Thatās kinda what makes me think this is particular image is fake because ableton have always had their tracks organized from left to right, not top to bottom, and it feels like someone saw the 4 buttons and guessed that it must be track buttons.
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Really?
I wake up full of positive energy, hoping for Abletonās Digitaktā¦
For what? Abletonās Aria, or worse, Abletonās EP-133ā¦
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4 tracks? But I already have Note with 8 tracks
Iāll be Moving on if thatās the case 
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It seemed to me that it has 8 tracks and 4 scenes.
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Ugh. The Digitone completely spoiled me for buttons on everything, from other gear to home appliances. I have to remind myself that there are just normal buttons, and then there are Elektron buttons, out in their own category.
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Just going off that last image, it states 4 tracks in the description
That does seem plausible.
Eight tracks seems almost mandatory given the grid layout and the anchoring of Noteās eight, though given the apparent price point and the inspiration of gear like Circuit, Iād say thereās at least a decent possibility that it will indeed be limited to four.
Iām not familiar enough with the OP-1 or OP-Z; are either of those limited to four tracks?
Iām not buying the details on the description.
No way is it only 4 Tracks. That doesnāt make sense in the Ableton Universe.
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A Prayer for Move Tuesday
Synth father, who art in Berlin,
Ableton be thy name.
Thy groovebox come, please make it fun,
with pads that are full of expression.
Give us this day, our daily grooves,
and forgive us our rhythm lapses,
as we forgive those who arenāt the funkiest.
Lead us not into awkward form factors and tiny screens,
but deliver us from modularā¦ 
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I call bullsh*t on that image.
Impossible ergonomics for a portable/handheld device and ugly as hell.
the price checks out, ~$470 in japan, seems real
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Sweetwater, I will fear no groovebox
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Op-1 is four tape tracks but you can overdub infinitely on each track. Itās really the odd one out when it comes to standalone units as nothing really does what it does. It does have a sampler engine with polyphonic playback and a sampler engine that can slice samples.
OP-Z has 4 sample tracks (each with two note polyphony if I recall correctly) and 4 synth tracks with varying polyphony depending on what type of track your on (example: thereās a bass track which is monophonic regardless but a chord track which can be monophonic or polyphonic I believe, and an arp track and a lead track).
Novation Circuit was two polyphonic synth tracks I thinkā¦ and 4 sample tracks? Itās been awhile.
EP-133 is 4 groups of 12 sounds and 12 voice total polyphony, also plays samples polyphonically.
Dirtywave M8 has 8 tracks.
Digitakt 1 has 8 tracks. Digitakt 2 has 16 tracks.
Model Samples is 6 tracks.
Polyend Tracker is 8 tracks.
It really just wouldnāt make sense that the Move would be 4 tracks to me. It doesnāt make sense with Abletons previous works. Ableton Lite / intro is 8 tracks, note is 8 tracks, Push is set up to display 8 tracks, move looks like itās set up to display 8 tracks.
Hopefully thatās someone just trying to stir the pot. Why would suddenly someone have information about the Move from a survey from two years ago and itās only being brought up after a picture of the apparent hardware was leaked?
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Dudes. Abletonās tracks are vertical. Nuff said.
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Eh, Iām gonna wait for Ableton Move Mk2
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